Ezra

Goal: Grade 5

16 Oct

Scales

  • Bb harmonic minor this week and revise all other scales

Moonlight

  • check LH bar 5
  • check 32 LH
  • dynamics still need to be more pronounced

9 Oct

Moonlight

  • don’t go too fast
  • keys are balance dynamics here
  • be careful with any repeated mistakes
  • count triplets

Legend of Tanis

  • finish first page this week

Scales

  • first four scales

New: Legend of Tanis

18 Sep

Spinliedchen

  • melodic voicing is key
  • crescendos
  • watch for evenness and quality of quick notes

Moonlight: work on during holidays

Scales

  • finish scales during holidays

11 Sep

Spinliedchen

  • sectional practice

Scales

  • G# melodic minor

4 Sep

Spinliedchen

  • work to always highlight melody
  • learn at least 2nd page this week

Scales

  • B maj and G# harmonic minor this week

7 Aug

Technical work: prepare

31 Jul

4A

  • exaggerate dynamics

Scales

  • all about execution, make sure you are prepared

Tambo Tango

  • evenness at 13

Let the Good Times Roll

  • accents
  • for memory, slow and seperate hands practice

Twilight

  • keep 13-15 loud
  • would recommend slow practice

24 Jul

Twilight

  • slow down towards the end
  • exaggerate dynamic changes between sections
  • pedalling 9-10, hold entire bar

Let the Good Times Roll

  • exaggerated dynamic ranges and accents are key
  • particularly the louds need to be louder

Tambo Tango

  • this is generally well played, good pedalling, good top note voicing
  • rhythm and clarity at 13-16 a big thing still though

4A

  • needs dynamics

Scales

  • needs to be correct and fluent first time, not four attempts

3 Jul

Twilight

  • 9 bigger and more phrasing
  • more in 21 as well
  • 17 not too heavy, but 21 more

26 Jun

Twilight

  • don’t go too fast
  • even in loud bits, left hand soft, right louder. never lose RH melody
  • watch pedalling 9 onwards

4A

  • please finish this week!

Scales

  • do F# harmonic minor this week

Tambo Tango

  • needs slow practice for accuracy

19 Jun

Twilight

  • phrasing, when we got higher, get louder. we can do this throughout the song

4A

  • keep improving

Scales

  • on the right track, but need to go quicker

Let the Good Times Roll

  • accents are relative to dynamics

12 Jun

Twilight

  • learn more this week
  • balance is the most important thing
  • LH soft, RH loud

Scales

  • this needs to be done, we are going to check next week

Tango

5 Jun

Twilight

  • check hand swap at bar 8

Let the Good Times Roll

  • accents need work
  • watch transitions between sections

4A

  • slow down, but do the phrasing

29 May

Tambo Tango

  • melody can come out stronger still, this means everything else soft
  • watch pedalling at 13

Let the Good Times Roll

  • check rhythm bar 1
  • accents still need to come out stronger
  • mp and p softer

New song: Twilight

22 May

Tambo Tango

  • holding top note better, this is our melody
  • similarly, where is melody is 13?
  • quality of notes, are you pressing all of the notes down

Let the good times roll

  • finish this week
  • accents, louder than surrounding notes
  • staccatos are soft, and short

Scales

  • just make sure they are accurate when you play them

15 May

Scales

  • Bb major contrary, just be careful if you get lost halfway
  • do G harmonic minor this week

Midnight Ride

  • choose areas that need work
  • dynamics!
  • sometimes it helps to exaggerate dynamics

Nashville Rag

  • a generally good performance, but needs dynamics, espeically on the f side

Tambo Tango

  • don’t overdo pedal

New: Let the good times roll

8 May

Scales

  • do up to Bb major cont

Midnight Ride

1 May

Scales

  • please watch accuracy quality
  • do all scales up to C melodic minor

Song of Twilight

  • this was done well

New song: Midnight Ride

24 Apr

Nashville Rag

  • larger dynamic difference, is it obvious?
  • bar 1-4 LH fingering

New: Song of Twilight

  • tranqil, relaxed
  • watch key signature

Scales:

  • do three scales this week

27 Mar

Scales

  • E harmonic minor, maybe F major this week
  • need to work on accuracy generally speaking

Kinabalu Sunrise

  • when doing sectional practice, split into smaller sections
  • add pedal

20 Mar

Star Wars

  • the quality here was decent
  • add dynamics for interest

Kinabalu Sunrise

  • check where pedal changes
  • dynamics as well
  • practice the 2nd page more

Scales

  • take each time seriously, execution is important as knowing the scale

13 Mar

Kinabalu Sunrise

  • try to add pedal
  • generally well done
  • try to finish this week

Scales

  • Bb major and G major contrary

6 Mar

Easy Does It

  • this was beautifully presented today! for grade 2 standard, this is sufficient, this would get about a B+ in an exam

Star Wars

  • this is also generally not bad. there’s a couple bits that would benefit from sectional practice, do you know where they are?
  • sometimes we have to watch accuracy, if it sounds wrong, read!
  • otherwise, really good progress!

Scales

  • B harmonic minor
  • 4th finger rule

New song: Kinabalu Sunrise

27 Feb

Star Wars

  • great work today!
  • sectional practice on difficult sections, 3-5x times
  • aim for a steady beat especially in LH. slow practice for this

Please do your scale B natural minor

Keep revising Easy Does It

20 Feb

Easy Does It

  • excellent progress
  • slow practice for consistency
    • if you’re consistent, all crotchets should be the same in LH

New song: Star Wars

  • see how far you can go

New Scale: B natural minor

  • check fingering with 4th fingering rule

13 Feb

Easy Does It

  • don’t set a limit, try to push much as you can
  • we want to be doing more reading
  • try to finish this week
  • don’t do a few bars at a time, do larger sections

Scales: D major this week

6 Feb

New song: Easy Does It

  • try not to restart too much
  • don’t forget F#s
  • see how far you can get!

Scales

  • D major