July 19, 2023 – Marlene

A major scale (two 8va), arpeggios (two 8va) – hands separately, then together.

Ploger: 6-Part Lap Map p. 68 improv

6-part Longy Rhythm – do this without Lap Map, tapping on beat 1 only and whispering on dots. Use your good coach to remind yourself to go through the tough section first, then do entire right side, then start from beginning. When you can do this without a mistake, then you can add Lap Map

• Try to keep going if you make a mistake – identify the cause of error, and apply the correct cure in time

Solfege:

• improvise solfege melodies, only stepwise motion up and down. If you want to move further up or down, you have to say all the solfege in between. Don’t worry about singing it for now, just get fluent in speaking the solfege and visualizing the keys

• Theory – RCM Unit 6
• Sight Reading 5 Unit 1

Ensemble piece: Wind-Up Music Box

Etude in D minor by Czerny – Etude book p. 8

• add pedal
• work on bringing up the tempo
• think of harmonic phrases

Bach Little Prelude in C

• Slow practice, focusing on articulations
• hands separate work

Sonatina in C, Op. 36 No. 3 – Clementi

• Work with metronome at a slow steady beat you can maintain throughout to even out sections. Make note of any places where you’re unable to stay in time and work them separately with metronome until up to tempo with rest of piece
• m. 31-33 be sure LH stays legato as RH is staccato, also watch out for being on the wrong up-down pattern in LH (sometimes would be down-up)