June 5, 2024

Technique/Scales

C major scale and arpeggios – hands together

  • do 1 8va as quarter notes (up and down) then right onto 2 8vas in 8ths

Ploger

7 minutes max for each exercise – set your timer

** Do this every day**

Rhythm: 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

Do Tracking page as before

Theory/Sightreading

  • Theory – RCM Book 8 – only go up through p. 62

Repertoire

Bach Invention No. 1 in C major

  • Continue hands separately, if you want to add the ornaments, you may as it can change the fingering, but if you struggle with the counting, play without to get a feel for the rhythm, then add ornament back in
  • you may want to use a metronome to help keep you from speeding up. You may need to set the metronome to the 8th or 16th note otherwise it might end up being too slow to be helpful. So like 60 for 8th notes, or 104 for 16th notes

Kuhlau Sonatina Op. 20 No. 1 – here is the sheet: Kuhlau Sonatina Op 20 No 1

  • M. 28-29 and 77-78 should be all one slur, no staccato
  • m. 39-40 pedal each half note in LH, also don’t slow down here
  • M. 48-49 make sense out of the cadenza by counting going up to F 3 times, and then heading up for a 4th time but turning around halfway (you missed the turnaround on beat 2 of m. 49)
  • Study the score in those places where you have memory lapses and figure out what things to remind yourself of when you get to those places that will help you do the correct part
  • work on addressing causes of error as they happen

Italian Song p. 109 Classics to Moderns

  • keep LH thumb from extending out for more than a split second before collapsing the hand back in. Slow LH practice, but see what you can tolerate. Feel free to change the fingering here