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
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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
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Theory

Do p. 42-45

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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
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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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