Oct 14, 2025 – Adalina

• 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 and Chords

• hands separately looking at the keys, put hands together when easy
• remember all F’s and C’s are sharped
• use the same fingering as C major scale

Keep practicing Malagueña p. 32-33

• continue working on playing faster (don’t count out loud)
• take your time in pressing down the pedal – make sure you play the note, then press, so don’t get

Do p. 36-39

Keep practicing Pyramids p. 60-61

• work on speeding this up a bit – no need to count, but it doesn’t need to be really fast, just moderate
• do 3-10-3 where needed so that you know each of these different patterns in the RH
• work on dynamics

Keep practicing Horseman and Dance of Irish p. 28-32

• count out loud for the first few times you work on this
• do 3-10-3 to learn them
• add dynamics

Relearn Carol of the Bells

• pretend like this is brand new and go through it very slowly. Do this for the first day or two, but after that you can speed it back up again
• consider doing 3-10-3 where needed

Learn Jingle Bell Rock

• focus on the first page, and do what you can with the rhythm
• use 3-10-3 to help