Nov 22, 2024 – Marlene

C major scale and arpeggios – hands together

• do 1 8va as quarter notes (up and down) then right onto 2 8vas in 8ths
• remember to keep the wrist still and have an ergonomic angle to the arm
• go on to G major when easy

Continue sightreading from Piano Adventures 3A Lessons. Play while the metronome is on, focus on eagle vision and not fixing mistakes

Fundamentals of Piano Theory Level 9 – go at your own pace

Mozart Sonata in C K545: use this sheet for reference Mozart K545

• Work on beats with trills in isolation hands together (i.e., m. 4 beats 2-3). You may want to count out loud, and remember the trills are 32nd notes so you’d play two of them per subdivision
• LH arpeggios, try to block as much as you can to get in muscle memory and awareness of what notes to play, but when you play arpeggiated treat it like one note at a time – not overly legato. You can also work the 3 different staccatos here

Satie Gymnopedie No. 1 sheet music: Gymnopedie – annotated

•  Be sure you are in 3/4 time for m.1-4
• continue working LH alone – sometimes practice only the chord and leave out beat 1, then go repeat and add beat 1
• Do some chord analysis on m. 18-39 to help with finding the chords. Ignore the pedal point on beat 1 m. 23-31 when doing this
• Repedal on beat 3 m. 37 as you hold F# in RH for full measure