Sept 25, 2024

Technique/Scales

C Major Scale 2 octaves hands together

  • pay attention to your hand posture and what your wrist and elbow are doing
  • be sure you are using proper fingering

Rhythm

Do the new  5-Part Lap Map Improv – get comfortable with this new pattern

  • pay attention to the 3 Causes of Error and applying the solution

Theory/Sightreading

Theory (blue book): Do Unit 1 and 2

Sightreading book: Do Unit 1 – do one per day

Etudes

Nothing

Repertoire

Minuet in G p. 6

  • play with a metronome all the way through. Set it to very slow for now because there are pauses in several places. Try around 76 bpm.
  • if you make too many mistakes, go even slower – find a tempo you can play it without pausing or making lots of mistakes

Clementi Sonatina p. 16-17

  • Write in fingering for the rest of the notes
  • put hands together for Development and Recapitulation

Tarantelle p. 34-35

  • Work on RH alone very slowly, focusing on keeping the proper hand posture. If you go faster and it begins to collapse, slow it down again