Youtube Playlist
This playlist has all the standard Series 18 pieces for Grade 7
Syllabus
Pieces to choose from. Don’t pick Series 17 pieces.


Google Drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b2fLz7OF5UKggR_-9yuhPe_zldcu4vVH?usp=sharing
Goal for this week
- self guided goal for Nocturne
- self guided for Hisashi
- F harmonic minor grand scale
Long Term Goal
- Grade 7
Aural

20 Mar
Scales
- F harmonic minor
7A
- phrasing expression
One Summer’s Day
- make sure pedal considers the bottom note
- in louder sections, when phrasing, still start a bit softer
- phrasing can also be bigger
- check notes 30-31

- watch out for triplet polyrhythm

Nocturne
- more offset rubato
- LH softer
- approximate polyrhythms
13 Mar
7B
- watch fingering
Scales: Ab major this week
Summer’s Day
- count notes in bar 6

- bar 23 Bb RH

- phrasing and rubato to be done in waves. can use left soft pedal
- bar 17 phrase upwards
- bar 22 hit chords harder, blend sound. phrase as two bars waves
- bar 30 small LH, big RH, RH phrased
Nocturne
- LH accompaniment, get to jumping note early to keep it soft
- lift pedal cleanly
- phrase strongly, but don’t let LH interfere too much
27 Feb
8C
- process 6 quavers in a bar
Scales: Ab major this week
Nocturne
- still needs to create a sense of mystery by more ‘super soft’ parts
- don’t rush through it, use rubato to make it relaxed
- inertia – the struggle to move forward
- playing
- pentuplet – don’t stop RH
- triplet, make sure it is smooth in RH
Summer’s day
- more fading would be good to create mystery
- can use soft pedal
- rubato needs to be intense, especially the slow parts
20 Feb
7A
- not too careful and timid
- LH non legato
- dynamics are
7B
- check fingering towards the end
- try LH
7C
- try this week
Scales
- 4th finger rule
- Ab major grand scale
Nocturne
- maybe take a slower speed, more like walking
- triplet good to take it as normal triplet first

- phrasing
- when we go up, go louder
- rubato
- speed up and
- balance
- LH very light
13 Feb
7A
- challenge yourself with speed
7B
- start this one, it is already going well
Scales
- do B harmonic minor grand this week
- remember 4th finger rule
Nocturne
- small notes are a point for rubato

- 5 tuplet, note goes here

- pp, no phrasing, less features. can use soft pedal
- with polyrhythms, find a good approximation, then go with that and try to get the flow
- dynamics are often related to phrasing, or harmony