June 28, 2023 – Marlene

D 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 go as far as you like
• Sight Reading 4B Unit 18

Ensemble piece: G Whiz

• Sight Reading 4B Unit 19

Ensemble piece: Grey and Gloomy

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

• learn this measure by measure, figuring out the chords first by playing them blocked, then playing as written once you can do the chord changes easily in that measure

Bach Little Prelude in C

• Try visualizing everything – work in small sections or one measure at a time, visualize the keys for that measure before you play, play as you visualize, then pause, visualize next measure, etc.
• mordents can be a bit slower – we want them to be correct rather fast and missing some notes
• staccato means just detached, not clipped
• try to create a lift or break in the line at the ends of slurs

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

• continue working hands together slowly by playing one measure or small group of measures hands separately, then together. Start in different places to do this – maybe the last line on last page, dolce section in recap, etc.
• in dev, try playing LH as quarter notes played on the beat (i.e., m.27 play B and G together as quarter notes) as you play RH has written
• m; 42 to the downbeat  m. 46 play without repeated notes, just practice the chord changes from one to the next (play as if they’re quarter notes)
• also m. 42-46 you can practice backwards: start from the last notes (downbeat of 46) and play that, then go back to previous chord change (RH: E/C, LH: F#) play that through downbeat of 46, repeat until easy, go back to the previous chord change (RH: D/F, LH: D) and play forward to downbeat of 46, repeat until easy, and continue in this fashion.