Dear Tai
This week focus on memorizing Spanish Caballero, make sure you’re keeping your arpeggios even
you can also review your other songs : Time Machine (include dynamics)
Dragon Hunt (keep even beat)
Pagoda in the Purple Mist (with pedal)
A Day at the Carnival
(Try to practice 15 – 20 min a day)
Dear Carmen
Hope you can remember your new song : “Star in the Sky”? :)
Keep working on Ice Cream
Music Star
Ready to Play
– and improvising!
(Try to practice 10 min a day)
Dear Gemma,
Good job memorizing!!! Still focus mainly on Sonatina in G major (keep memorizing hands apart and together, in sections and SLOW tempo)
The Song of Twilight : all quarter notes the same value (count your 16th notes), make sure all your left hand chords are correct
Gigue a l’Angloise : keep even beat all throughout the song (same as the first line)
The Witches and the Wizards : pedal, watch ritardando at the end
The Butterfly : practice in slow, medium and fast tempos, with the book and by memory
All covered scales and triads
(try to practice 30 min a day)
Dear Jessie,
Rigadoon in A minor : practice with even pulse (measures 12 and 18 watch the last quarter note)
Dream Catcher: keep memorizing hands separately and hands together, left hand with pedal
German Dance : keep reviewing (second half bring out the melody in your right hand)
Studies : practice in medium tempos and even beat
Scales : D, A , B flat, E flat major
b, g , c minor (harmonic and melodic)
chromatic starting on c
c minor formula pattern
(try to practice 30 min a day)
Dear Nathalia,
New songs for this week:
Allegro Skids
Mozart’s Pets
Go tell auntie Rhodie, also Variation
Night of Stars
(good job on Cinderella’s Waltz! make sure you play evenly)
(try to practice 10 -15 a day)