Marcy’s Piano Lessons

Jan 30, 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 G Major Scale

  • hands separately first, looking at hands, then play together
  • remember all F’s are F#
  • same fingering as the C major scale

Keep practicing Baseball and Trading p. 32-33

  • work on LH being mf and RH p and in Trading is swaps halfway through to RH to f

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Theory

Do p. 38-41

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Lessons

Keep practicing London Symphony p. 52

  • work on dynamics

Jazzy Joe p. 53

  • really count out loud, especially on beat 1 with a tie
  • work on dynamics

Shepherd’s Song p. 54-55

  • lift foot right on beat 1 of m. 11
  • LH moves to A in m. 17

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Performance

Keep practicing Hill and Gully, and I’ve Got Music p. 30-33

  • count out loud
  • add dynamics

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