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Certificate List
18 Mar
Chopin
- polyrhythm improving
Bach
- great start, watch for missing accidentals
Beethoven
- bar 12, keep touch legato
- 24, don’t speed up
- check LH note values, they change texture
- 53, keep correct dynamic
18 Mar
Chopin
- prioritise RH evenness
- check notes in general
- start listening for general knowledge
Beethoven 3rd
- check legato first line, soft
- main character of playfulness caused by contrast between loud and soft, smooth and bouncy
4 Mar
Beethoven
- main focus is rhythmic consistency, should be consistent quavers
- slow practice key for accuracy and mental memory
- bar 60 check repeats of bars
- bar 100, check legato of bars
- soft staccatos, don’t jump off too much
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Beethoven 3rd mvt
- take your time with polyrhythm
- don’t play too loud
- keep 2 crotchets per bar
- count bar 26
25 Feb
Fantaisie
- middle section, phrasing, rubato balance
- across the board, might need to be a bit more accurate
- when adding pedal, play soft
- loud intitial
Beethoven
- be careful of touch in soft sections
- 67, remove LH accent
- watch dynamic in 79, not too soft
- 100, check RH fingering
- 135, a bit of phrasing is okay, but not too much
18 Feb
Fantaisie
- see circled/corrected notes on page
- polyrhythm exercise: LH speed, RH 25% faster. combine at same speeds
- middle section has three elements
- phrasing
- rubato
- balance
Beethoven 2nd
- 19 watch fingering
- 20 watch
- do RH sep for legato exercise
- phrasing 3x bigger, softer starts
11 Feb
Reverie
- focus on continuity of quavers
- bar 11, can have rubato on first beat, then speed catches up after
- bar 19, possibly practice hands seperate, LH constant beat
- 35, don’t speed up, bring out LH
- 43, check held notes
- bar 47, do broken chord earlier, to keep intergity of melody
- 51, watch tempo here. piu p, take off top note volume
- 77, pedal bar by bar
- 85, pay attention to written dynamic
2 Feb
List B
- slow, calm practice to get in right mindset
- think of characters for quick dynamic interpretation
List D
- focus on continuity, do sectional practice if required
26 Nov
Reverie
- can start quicker, with momentum (sans lenteur = without slowness)
- keep ideas bigger, a lot of ideas can be done in the RH
- 2nd line 2nd page, some missing notes in RH chord
- rubato, keep it short, and towards the ends of phrases
- watch coordination, last line 2nd page
- pp espressivo, much more voicing, pedal lifts to control RH texture
- 3rd page 2nd last line, watch tempo. voice melody
Beethoven 2nd
- bar 9 Ab in chord
- good technical preparation today
- for practicing magnitude of phrasing
- bar 10, can use finger pedal for texture
- ba
19 Nov
Beethoven
- bar 8 RH fingering
- bar 24, planning out cresc layer by layer
- bar 32-35, check LH notes, watch for tie, keep soft
- 45, make sure this is in time
- check LH 57, make sure each chord is seperate
- 106 fingering LH
- 181 RH
Beethoven Mvt 2
- fingering for legato most critical
Beethoven 3rd mvt
- articulation most important
5 Nov
Reverie
- pedalling, on LH changes, but can be complex as well
- LH as soft as possible for first few bars
- tres doux et tres expressif, very soft and expressive
- RH slightly above LH in intro
- meno p introduce LH first, mf RH louder
- pp 2nd page, LH dominant so it sounds like the RH is covered
- poco cresc and piu cresc on 2nd page, opportunity to have multi-layered cresc.
29 Oct
List B
- phrase first 12 bars but then next part soft
- sudden dynamic changes after cresc at 24
- false ending bar 45
- going through many different moods from bar 60 onwards
Focus on Beethoven 1st movement and Reverie
Theory, revise chapter 1 for scales
14 Oct
List A
- make sure you’re not missing notes, especially in LH
- bar 10, catch LH notes with pedal
- don’t speed up at 29
List B
- 26-27, LH execution
- watch rests 43 onwards
- don’t speed up at 83
List C
- focus on technical accuracy
- don’t speed up 117
- don’t speed up 233
- advise slow practice
List D
- make phrasing a main priority
- 37, just try to make it through section
7 Oct
8A
- do with metronome, 150 per note
Scales
- take extra time
- soft arpeggios, try if possible to make sure all notes go down
List A
- good quick speed helps the phrasing
- LH in general can be just a bit softer if possible, helping the RH be voiced
- don’t rush in 29
List B
- still focus on phrase endings
- bring tempo to around 90% instead of 100%, use extra tempo energy to focus on dynamics and phrase endings
List C
- bring tempo to around 90% instead of 100%, use extra tempo energy to focus on dynamics and phrase endings
List D
- make sure all notes are coming out
- try to restrict loud volume for the f sections, otherwise, try to control volume
Aural
- inversions correct
- cadences (1/2)
- memory very accurate
- singing bottom part, first correct, second half correct
Sight reading
- good effort
1 Oct
List C
- think about tempo before starting
- sectional practice continue, but be disciplined in what speed and concertration you go
- not too fast, not too slow
- use sectional practice to carefully observe dynamics
List B
- try to identify all phrase endings and make them soft
- semiquavers have improved
- quavers, when phrasing don’t get faster
- 98, watch for rests
- 99 not speeding up
- 125, E natural in RH
19 Sep
List A
- start with a quicker tempo, think of flowing speed
- can phrase more on last two lines
- mental memory in key sections can be improved, ultra slow practice
List B
- variable tempo (ex, 99 too fast compared to previous page)
- try metronome at 105
List C
- sectional practice and aiming for perfection within those sections
- stability practice can be done while playing full tempo, but also do slow practice seperately
- aim for quality (does every note come out clearly)
List D
- 37 start a bit softer
- have phrasing mathematically planned
11 Sep
List D
- try tempo crotchet = 60
- more confident features
List B
- most important thing is to have even semiquavers, it makes the piece balanced and in control
- rest bar 49
- rest bar 57
- rest bar 98
- tempo at 99 changed?
3 Sep
Technical
- 8B still need work, focus finger positions and full chord practice
- watch chord progression in Eb major
- watch accuracy of arpeggios
- arppegios are at 84 bpm
List C
- 85, not too soft, all RH notes coming
- all about getting it cohesive as a full perforamnce
- avoid stops
- don’t change tempo from the start
- assess mistakes and tempo changes carefully
- don’t wait too long at 113
- poco rall 116
- 117, don’t make other notes too loud other than the melody
- 161, too fast, keep same tempo
- don’t jump too high on staccatos, make sure all notes are plied
List B
- follow dynamics and sudden changes
- check coordination in 41
- watch for key signature generally