Adalina’s Piano Lessons

Feb 28, 2025

Rhythm

  • Do 5-Part Lap Map, making up your own rhythms. You can look at the Longy rhythms and choose ones you see there to try
  • Then do 5-Part rhythm the “old” way
  • stop if you make a mistake and figure out what the mistake was and which of the 3 causes of error it was
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Scales, Chords, and Technique

Play D Major Scale and Chords

  • hands separately looking at the keys, put hands together when easy
  • remember all F’s and C’s are sharped
  • use the same fingering as C major scale

Go to Unit 4 at your own pace (only 2 pieces)

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Theory

Unit 4

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Lessons

Go on to Unit 4 at your own pace

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Performance

Go onto Unit 4 pieces at your own pace

Sacred Music Competition

Morning Prayer

  • work 1-2 measures at a time, hands separately repeating several times until easy, then put hands together
  • remember F#’s
  • try to get the whole thing hands together by the time I see you at the end of March (slowly is fine)

Musette

  • work hands together slowly, again you can do 1-2 measures at a time, repeat until easy before going forward
  • remember F#’s
  • when the notes get easier, play all 8th notes detached (not really short staccato, but not legato)
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