July 31, 2024 – Joaquin

C Major Scale 2 octaves hands together

• pay attention to your hand posture and what your wrist and elbow are doing
• be sure you are using proper fingering

Do the new  5-Part Lap Map Improv – get comfortable with this new pattern

• pay attention to the 3 Causes of Error and applying the solution

Theory (blue book): Do Book 1 review p. 2-3

Sightreading book: Do Unit 1 – if you need to do a couple of day’s assignments in one day to finish this week that’s fine (it should be easy)

Nothing

Minuet in G p. 6

• For the next 3 days, play only hands separately with counting out loud as if you’ve never played it – very slowly
• after that, then put hands together slowly, and only go faster when you can play hands together without any problems
• focus on difficult measures by practice them extra times without mistakes

Clementi Sonatina p. 16-17

• Count out loud
• Hands separately
• practice 6-7 extra in RH – this is one of the tricky parts of the piece and will need more time

Tarantelle p. 34-35

• count out loud in your head, but keep the tempo on the slow side
• work on dynamics- look at each phrase and see what you’re supposed to do, then imagine what is should sound like. If you’re not sure, try singing it with the dynamics
• be careful of your tempo changing in m.17 – this is easier to play than 8th notes so we tend to speed this up