Adalina’s Piano Lessons

Oct 21, 2025

Rhythm

  • 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
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Scales, Chords, and Technique

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
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Theory

Finish off old book (if not already done)

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Lessons

Orange Book:

Do p. 4-5 review

Learn Moon Walk and Captain Hook p. 6-7

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Performance

Keep practicing Dance of Irish p. 30-32

  • don’t count out loud, but try to keep the beat steady throughout
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Christmas

Carol of the Bells

  • work on this with a metronome to make sure m. 17-20 stays up to speed with the rest

Jingle Bell Rock

  • careful of the swinging rhythms in the LH whenever it starts with a rest, and also for m. 5 (try singing this and tapping the beat with LH, then try playing it and tapping the beat, then play both hands)
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