Hakim
Technical Exercises – Continue practicing D Major scale
- 1 octave hands together, especially focusing on stepping down in the scale
- Practice as solid blocked hand positions, and stepping legato, staccato, and detached
Bartok Exercises – Working through #7 and 8
- Make sure you are confident of starting notes/hand positions
- Watch out for changing hand positions and new key signature in #8
The Calico Cat – Practicing hands separately to the end
- aiming to have measures 1-9 somewhat comfortable hands together already
- make note of the pattern in our hand position changes, our RH is focusing on an A minor hand position throughout the entire piece!
- Counting through dotted quarter rhythms in measures 9-14
Bizville – Continue practicing our LH “groove” in the first phrase, watching out for large leaps between B flat and F!
- Practicing our rh on its own, making sure you can confidently clap and count our RH rhythm in the first two measures
- Try fitting our first two measures hands together – watch out for when our hands line up when we count through
Clara
Technical Exercises – Continue practicing our C Major 1 octave scale
- Hands separately and together
- Practicing with legato, staccato, and detached articulations
- See how quickly you are able to comfortably play through this scale hands separately, and hands together. Check with a metronome to see what your top speed is!
Lesson Book
- Allegro in C Major
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- Continue slow hands separate practice all the way through, watching for patterns and things that repeat
- Once you are fully comfortable hands separate, break our music into smaller chunks (2-4 measures) and practice slowly hands together
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- The Juggler
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- Practice playing all the way through hands separately
- Counting out loud to keep track of all of our rests! This will make fitting hands together even easier for us
- If we are feeling comfortable hands separately while counting out loud, practice hands together while counting out loud very slowly