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Goal for this week
- scales: all exam standard
- consistentcy very poor, see notes below on practice methods
- listen to recordings
Long term goal
Do Grade 4 exam early 2021.
Abigail’s Amazing Aural Assessment Advice
Intervals
- 2nd – scale
- 3rd – o when saints
- 4th – amazing grace
- 5th – twinkle twinkle lil star
- 6th – my bonnie
- 7th – weird
- 8th – somewhere over the rainbow
Notes 19 Apr
Scales
- good quality!
- similar motion: loud or soft
- start chromatic, see three rules on paper
- make sure you memorise all scales
Twilight
- we need to hear melody a lot more all the time. LH must generally be really soft RH controls the dynamics
- 21-24, all notes LH need to be fixed
New York
- keep listening to recording
- needs consistently desperately
- practice slow
- some notes are wrong past bar 30
Can you play:
- slow?
- hands seperate
Notes 29 Mar
Scales need to be
- memorised
- consistent
- fast
- correct fingering notes
Scales to check
- both contrary motions
- G melodic minor 4 in LH
Let the good times roll
- still very inconsistent
- start from the start of every two bars
- slow practice
- perfect 2x practice
- seperate hand practice
New York
- Listen to recording a bit more
- be careful with dynamic barriers
- STILL INCONSISTENT
- start from the start of every two bars
- slow practice
- perfect 2x practice
- seperate hand practice
Notes 22 Mar
Scales
- ALL scales should be exam speed/standard
- also must be from memory
- all fingering must be memorised for fourth finger rule
- arpeggios need improvement in general
Let the good times roll
- time to carefully relearn stronger!
- play slow
- start from the middle
- read carefully
- each relearn will make it stronger
- don’t jump so much. There are some notes that are not staccato, like accents >
- needs dynamics
Notes 15 Mar
General Twilight notes
- always more RH and less LH
- consistency needs to be careful
- slow practice
- sectional practice
- must be w
- phrasing makes it expressive
- try your best 🙂
Notes 8 Mar
Scales
- still 4th finger rule
- Arpeggios need to be 4 octaves
Twilight
- balance between LH and RH needs to be lighter
- do dynamics as well
- for memory, LH should be able to played all by itself
- for memory, slow practice
- don’t do too much normal practice
- try your best for performance
Notes 1 Mar
Scales
- slowly improving, but still need lots of work
- 4th finger rule is wrong in EVERY scale 😦
- speed needs to be up in every scale
- scales need two things
- speed
- accuracy
Twlight
- severe fluency mistakes can be fixed by being hyper aware of mistakes, practicing in small clusters and
- metronome practice is also recommended, at speed 70-80
- balance between two hands is sometimes not great, LH has to be a lot softer
Notes 22 Feb
Scales
- improved, but still need to speed up good scales
- C# harmonic minor needs a lot of work
- please, 4th finger rule
Twilight
- bar 1-4, voice melody more by making LH softer
- please stop for mistakes and read
- for greater consistency, practice hands seperately
- main issues here are speed, balance and consistency
Notes 15 Feb
Scales
- well known and correct scales need to be played faster
- scale to work on slow and seperate: G melodic minor
- scale to work on slow: Bb contrary motion
- SEVERE and URGENT practice required. Must be accurate
Let the Good Times Roll
- Overall, speed needs to be more ‘slow and cool’
- articulation is good
- dynamics need to REALLY careful!
- rhythm needs to be fixed slightly, but we’ll do that next time
- for memory problems, practice slow! VERY slow. Read while going slow.
- also helps to go hands seperately for memory
Twilight
Notes 8 Feb
Scales
- need to be 77bpm per 4 notes
- correct fingering, use 4th finger rule and don’t skip fingers
- MUST be 4 octaves
- refresh arpeggios
New York
- bar 3 LH watch this note
- legato bar 8, with correct fingering
- clear diference in dynamics bar 13
- 18, use pedal for legato
- 24, legato
- add pedal, helps with big sound and articulation
- poco rall, getting a bit slower
- molto rall, getting really slow
Notes 1 Feb
Twilight
- watch pedalling carefully, don’t BLUR different chords
- pedal exactly on the marking to make sure there is no gap
- For the entire piece, we need to work on getting the speed all the same. Would help to listen to recording.
- bar 7 check this note
- bar 8, rhythm is TI TIKA
- LH missing in bar 11?
- 25, check if everything is in the correct spot, bar 27, check LH notes
Notes 15 Dec
Scales
- 4TH FINGER RULE PLEASE
- in general, need to increase speed as well
- melodic minor, do brackets on the way down
- scales are starting to become careless. please be careful this holiday!
- if the scales are going to be careless, do not do them at all
Twilight
- in general, very good. Keep practicing in small bits and READ that notes are correct. Present in good condition in 2021.
New York
- STILL be careful about articulation, especially staccato.
- after bar 30, for some reason there are suddenly a lot of wrong notes. See music for markings on page.
- add pedal when marked
Let the Good Times Roll
- bar 1-4, watch articulation
- still, dynamics need greater exaggerated. accents are good though! rem
- in 2021, we have a look at the detailed rhythms
Summary
- in 2021, we will look at details. details and attention
Notes 7 Dec
Scales
- generally, keep working on them
Twilight
- last line, very similar to before but just check where you are.
- bar 21, watch out for when LH stretches past 1 octave
Notes 30 Nov
Scales
- overall need to check fingering on ALL scales. Quality of fingering is poor.
- Present the three scales in the weekly goal next week with correct fingering!
Twilight
- reading here is good, however again watch out for fingering.
- bar 20 hands together, bar 24 hands sep
Notes 23 Nov
Scales
- look carefully when doing Bb major arpeggio/contrary
- E major fix fingering. 4th finger rule!
- Scales might need to pick up pace
Twilight
- all note learning today. See goal on weekly goal
New York
- with articulation (dots and slurs), don’t get into bad habits. Try being very careful
- Also be careful with dynamics, especially difficult ones
- 1st page needs careful work, 2nd and 3rd pages are pretty easy
