May 24, 2023 – Russ

G major scale, chords and arpeggios (2 octaves) – hands together. Look at a scales book to see the pattern between the hands when crossing under or over: ascending RH always does something first, descending LH leads

Ploger: 6-Part Lap Map improv and 6-part Longy Rhythm (separately)

Sight Reading 1B Unit 16

Ensemble Piece: At the Carnival

Beethoven Sonatina in G Major p. 12-13

• m. 25-31 work on LH alone with gestures: ascending notes wrist goes up and over, descending it goes down and out. Exaggerate this way under tempo, then gradually increase speed and minimize the movement while still maintaining the feeling of the wrist making small clockwise circles
• work on the measured with the grace notes, focusing in one issue at a time – don’t bite off more than one issue to focus on correcting

Etude in C Major

Etude in C major – Czerny

• Play with metronome set to a a slower tempo than you usually play and work first on just playing in time with it (may take a day or two)
• once you can do this, gradually increase tempo a little bit, but only increase the tempo twice in one sitting. The next day, go back to the previous tempo you had (the middle tempo) play that, increase twice, etc.