Mar 30, 2023

Technique/Scales

  • G major scale and arpeggios (two 8vas) – hands separately playing staccato, then together staccato, then legato
  • Ploger: 6-Part Lap Map improv and 6-part Longy Rhythm (separately)

Theory/Sightreading

  • Theory – Unit 7?
  • Sight Reading 1B: finish up the extra exercises at the end
  • Sight Reading 2A: Unit 1

Unit 1 duet: Eighths Are Enough

Repertoire

In the Spirit  Etudes p. 20

  • slow practice throughout
  • spend extra time on m. 9-12, and m. 17-24

Left Alone Etudes p. 13

  • Learn with pedaling once per measure, lifting up long notes where needed to reach notes

Clementi Sonatina Op 36 No 1 mvt 1

  • m. 7, 12-14, 22-23, and m. 37 practice in rhythms to help speed this up: group of 2’s long-short, short-long;  3’s speaking “123” to keep track, then when easy go back but start counting 123 on 2nd note, when easy repeat starting on 3rd note and counting 3’s; 4’s same as 3’s
  • m. 22-23 work on blocking hand positions (there are 3)