May 8, 2025 – Marcy

• Do 5-Part Lap Map, making up your own rhythms. You can look at the Longy rhythms and choose ones you see there to try

• Then do 5-Part rhythm the “old” way
• stop if you make a mistake and figure out what the mistake was and which of the 3 causes of error it was

Play D Major Scale

• hands separately
• remember F# and C#
• pay attention to keeping your fingers really curved – think of clawing at the keys, but don’t raise your wrist

Focus on Sacred Music songs

Finish off the book

Nothing this week

Nothing this week

Little Joke

• Practice playing from memory, go very slowly, then repeat faster

Sonatina

• be sure you get the staccatos in m. 9 and 11
• continue hands together, now count in your head – be sure those 8th notes are twice as fast as the quarter notes
• try playing with the metronome set to 54 bpm. Count out loud along with it for 1 measure then begin playing. When you can get through the whole piece this way, try going a little bit faster (56 bpm), and then when you can do that go to 58 bpm, then stop for the day. The next day try starting at 56 bpm and repeat a little bit faster two more times.