May 10, 2024

C major scale and arpeggios – hands together

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

Khatchaturian Melody Classics to Moderns p. 152-153

try relearning this very slowly, hands separately and gradually working your way back to hands together

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

Time to rip the band-aid off and play without looking at the score. Here’s where we rely upon muscle memory to just let the fingers play without us really knowing what to play
in places where you do have a lapse, figure out a way of remembering what exactly is going on – even if at first you need to pause to remember what to do
in places where Alberti bass gets out of sync, practice hands together in long-short and short-long rhythms
Do rhythms practice for any of the 16th note runs. Here’s a great video detailing how to do this. Note: you don’t need to go up to 5,6,7 groups, just up to 3 or 4 is great

Italian Song p. 109 Classics to Moderns

I Giorni – Einaudi

Slow practice m. 48 and on, hands together, making sure you release the pinky when you play fingers 1 and 2
you can do the 3 staccatos for the LH alone here and in other difficult areas. 1. Wiping: pulling back from the elbow 2. Bouncing the wrist on each note 3. Plucking each key like a string

May 10, 2024 – Marlene