Jan 22, 2025 – Joaquin

C Major Scale 2 octaves hands separately slowly

• Curve fingers
• Have the hand/arm angled outward
• level wrist (not high and low)

• 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

Unit 2 – do one part per day

Do Unit 3, 4, and 5

Left Alone p. 7

• Do the whole piece, even if you need to take a break – come back to where you left off so that you don’t get really good at the beginning and struggle with the end. Get the ending up to the same level that you have the rest of it
• learn slowly, paying attention to fingering
• whenever possible, hold down the melody note as you add the chords (a lot of the time you won’t be able to)
• add pedal

Sonatina in C – Clementi

• Practice slowly hands together with counting out loud
• Be sure you pay attention to the slurs that you don’t break the legato if the slur isn’t broken
• pay attention to rests