Feb. 14, 2024 – Marlene

Cb major scale and arpeggios – hands separately then together

7 minutes max for each exercise – set your timer

Do p. 153 Tracking, 1. Seconds

• Improvise solfège using your written key sheet – make a new one going from Fa to Fa. Do lots of descending patterns
• Do Tracking page as before in different clefs, start from the 2nd half of the line

Rhythm: 6-Part Lap Map p. 68 improv

• 6-part Longy Rhythm – do this without Lap Map, tapping on beat 1 only and whispering on dots. Use your good coach to remind yourself to go through the tough section first, then do entire right side, then start from beginning. When you can do this without a mistake, then you can add Lap Map
• Try to keep going if you make a mistake – identify the cause of error, and apply the correct cure in time

• Theory – RCM Book 7 – Unit p. 70 to top of 74

Bach Prelude in C Minor BWV 999

• Continue memorization work. You may need to just figure out the chord for that measure, or individual notes to help remind you, or even looking down at your hands and seeing the pattern or relationship from one measure to the next

Clementi Sonatina Op 36 No 3 (here’s a different version for reference: Clementi Sonatina in C op 36 no 3

• Work on speeding this up a bit to help with your focus on musicality
• m. 13-26 could use some work, especially m. 18 and on with LH legato
• focus on the causes of error here

I Giorni – Einaudi

• Coda after fermata: work on creating the doorknob/seesaw/pivot effect between the top notes of Rh and the thumb, exaggerating the effect and going slowly. Try to get a sense of “throwing” your thumb or top of hand to the notes