Shakira
Technical Exercises – Continue hands separate practice of 1 octave C Major scale
- Practicing as solid blocked groups of fingers so you are comfortable changing hand positions, then practicing stepping through (still keeping groups of 3 and 5 in mind!)
- RH – CDE/123-FGABC/12345
- LH – CDEFG/54321-ABC/321
Shadows – Continue working hands separately and together
- Make sure you know where hands change position (LH changes right away in measure 2 for our melody, RH changes in measure 7 to reach F/G with fingers 2/3
- Thinking ahead in places that might surprise us
- For example: RH measure 2 versus 4 – watching for changing rhythm; measures 5-7 only our LH ends on G, RH stops on F to shift hand position
Owl in the Night – New piece!
- Staying in the same starting position as Shadows (C minor – with E flat) Trying to piece together both hands already for next week (doesn’t need to be fast/”perfect” in any way!)
- Passing ideas/patterns back and forth between the hands
- Watching for steps vs skips in our pattern (as we can see right away in the LH, stepping up and skipping down)
- Already watching for dynamic shapes – when we step up we crescendo/grow louder, stepping/moving down we decrescendo/get softer