Marcy’s Piano Lessons
Feb 6, 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
Scales and Technique
Play D Major Scale
- hands separately first, looking at hands, then play together
- remember F# and C#
- same fingering as the C major scale
Learn Hiking, Sidewalk, and Prehistoric p. 34-36
- write in counting only for Prehistoric
- count out loud for all pieces
- add accents where written
Theory
Do p. 42-45
Lessons
Learns Bongs Drummers, all of p. 57, and Dinosaur
- write in counting for Dinosaur only
- count out loud for everything
- add dynamics and accents
Performance
Keep practicing Hill and Gully p. 30-31
- Get LH ready to change positions
- add dynamics
Learn Rain Dance p. 34-35
- write in counting and count out loud
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