Jayden

Youtube Playlist

Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxU_OGndc5q-jH26-96g39xF-RLx4hbgc

Google Drive

Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dWwG84LFuyn_X-PD_x9-mioV2YXi1h5-?usp=sharing

Intervals

• 2nd – scale
• 3rd – O when the saints
• 4th – amazing grace
• 5th – twinkle twinkle
• 6th – my bonnie lies over the ocean
• 7th – weird
• 8th – somewhere over the rainbow

Goal for this week

• Finish 4A 1 Feb
• Start all arpeggios
• work on Allegro and Tartan
• don’t practice too much of etude

Long term goal

Grade 4 exam mid-2021

Notes 14 Dec

Scales: begin arpeggios, perfect contrary motions

4A: finish by 1 Feb

Etude

• louder in 33

• avoid gaps by making the beat go forward.
• bar 17 make sure RH and LH come together
• Curve fingers

Tartan

• needs general work, keep learning notes

Allegro

• funny dynamic contrast is needed for the ending

Notes 7 Dec

Ex 4A: first line pls

Scales

• make sure they are together
• finish all contrary motion by 14 Dec

Allegro

• you need to check which notes are short and which are long

• finish the piece this week

Tartan

• fade on staccato

• bar 9 rests are important in LH

Notes 30 Nov

Technical

• Ex 4A, first line
• chromatics
• revise all scales

Allegro

• Significant work still needs to be done. Aim for finish this week.

Notes 23 Nov

4B

• practice bar by bar, become da master. Rhythm must be correct.

Scale: F# harmonic minor contrary

Allegro

• Articulation and slurs are really important
• dynamics are also really important
• this is all to make it funny
• bar 36 HT, ending hands sep.

Notes 16 Nov

Contrary: F# harmonic minor

Allocate about 5 mins to technical per practice.

Allegro

• LH soft. Don’t jump. This creates the fluffy texture.
• check this LH chord

• this piece is all about whether it is chunky or not

Notes 9 Nov

Excercises

4B

• keep going

Scales

• F melodic minor, watch 4th finger
• A major contrary motion

Allegro

• listen to recording this week
• watch for slurs OR staccatos across the piece
• aim for first page hands together

Etude

• bar 4 LH rhythm, should be consistent

• bar 10 snappy semiquavers

• curve fingers for greater accuracy
• main aim is consistency in rhythm

Notes 2 Nov

Excercises

• PLEASE DO EX 4B
• make sure timing is right, quavers are 2 semis, crotchet is 4 semis. Practice bar by bar

4A

• start if you have time. Remember flats BEAD

Scales

• F melodic minor, fix F harmonic minor using 4th finger rule

Allegro

• bar 9, F#

• get up to 30 this week, mostly the same LH here. Make this a priority

Etude

• bar 1-8, focus on rhythmic consistency
• Bar 17 onwards, focus on ‘evenness’. Curving fingers helps
• check notes in 45-47, make sure there are 4 of them

• check notes 51

Notes 26 Oct

Ex 4B

• please do LH this week
• RH increase speed

Allegro

• even at early learning stage, consider balance between LH and RH, RH needs to be louder
• learning goal: bar 16, hands together

Etude

• bar 1-8, hold LH notes

• start dynamics in bar 17

• check notes bar 51 RH