June 19, 2024
Technique/Scales
C Major Scale 2 octaves hands together
1 octave arpeggios (see your scales sheet) hands separately. When easy put hands together
Rhythm
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/Sightreading
Do p. 46-51
Etudes
Nothing
Repertoire
Minuet in G p. 6
- Play hands together starting in the B section first
- keep the tempo slow
- play quarter notes detached (non-legato, which is longer than staccato) in the A section only
Learn Clementine Sonatina p. 16-17
- Count out loud
- Hands separately
- Look for chords, scales, and arpeggios
Tarantelle p. 34-35
- Count in your head
- if you have to look down at your hands be sure to look back up at the score so you don’t have pauses from one idea to the next
- work on dynamics
- work on balance between the hands based on which one is important
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