Logan

Logan’s Playlist

Goal

  • Grade 7

19 Aug

Scales

  • fourth finger rule, do all grand scales this week

Seasons of Love

  • be more considerate of pedalling and dynamic
  • subito p, suddenly soft, bar 13
  • keep up the sectional practice

Prepare Turkish March

12 Aug

Season of Love

  • voice melody
  • pedal at appropriate times
  • call and response at bar 21
  • general quality could be higher

Scales

New scale: F harmonic minor

5 Aug

SCales

  • new scale: Ab major
  • D major

All pieces were below standard this week

29 Jul

Scales

  • B harmonic minor revise

Turkish March

  • watch fingering carefully
  • try finishing 2nd page this week

Seasons of Love

  • change pedal every LH chord

22 Jul

Scales

  • B harmonic minor, learn this week. 4th finger rule is poor this week.

Seasons

  • same goals as last week

15 Jul

Seasons

  • learning goals: 28
  • excellent progress: 36

Technical

  • Octave activation 7C
  • D major grand scale
  • bonus: B harmonic minor

10 Jun

Comptine

  • needs more dynamics

Nuvole

  • more gradual dynamic increase
  • more phrasing at bar 21 would be great

Goodbye for now

  • larger phrasing
  • try your best to fix 29

27 May

6B

  • slow down here
  • make sure pedalling is accurate

Scales

  • make sure you are prepared before starting
  • some fingerings wrong but too late to fix

Comptine

  • make second half softer
  • don’t slow down excessively

Nuvole

  • speed up from 29 onwards
  • slow practice still for coordination

Goodbye

  • not too heavy on first page, can save it for later on 2nd page
  • keep phrase endings soft esp in 2nd half

20 May

Goodbye for Now

  • beat is generally poor, especially as we go throughout the piece. key signature is 2 lots of 3, we need to count acordingly.
  • bar 17 should be softer, so that bar 25 is louder
  • check notes in final bars
  • practice appropriately, find bad sections and fix those

Sight Reading

  • check clefs
  • don’t restart

General knowledge satisfactory

Comptine

  • phrasing generally absent

13 May

Scales

  • 6B watch pedalling
  • soft scales need to be correct speed
  • fingering still wrong in C minor grand and G# minor contrary, up to you to fix
  • chord progression needs work
  • chromatics poor quality today

Nuvole

  • purely practice methods, stability and mental memory need work

Comptine

  • LH balance

29 Apr

Scales

  • similar motions too slow
  • grand scale incorrect fingering
  • contrary motion poor
  • chromatic just poor
  • chord prog not correct rhythm

Comptine

  • this could work better a bit quicker
  • slow practice 17-24 would be good
  • 24 needs to slow down and wrong notes
  • softer left hand essential
  • softer at edges of phrase
  • pedalling not to the top the pedal range

Goodbye

  • main thing is to increase tempo, all things flow from that

Nuvole

  • gaps at ending 35 onwards still a small issue
  • pauses longer 33 and 34
  • keep 21 lighter

22 Apr

Scales

  • arpeggios fingering
  • chord progressions just need to be practiced
  • speed needs to increase on all scales, but esp F# major and D# melodic minor

Goodbye

  • keep the flow a bit better, can go a bit faster and you also have to make sure rhythm is correct (non-stop groups of 3)
    • metronome at 108, up to 120
  • phrasing needs to be more accurate, softer softs
  • soft pedal bar 17

Comptine

  • phrasing starting softer
  • go a bit quicker, feel the flow

15 Apr

Nuvole

  • improved
  • bar 21 more phrasing
  • bar 33-34 pausing more
  • bar 35 onwards keep light, LH not too loud
  • watch pedalling at all times

Comptine

  • all about phrasing this week
  • pedalling is unreliable

Goodbye for Now

  • slow down towards end
  • enforce pedalling and phrasing very strictly

13 Apr

Scales

  • 4th finger rule
  • coordiantion hands together on chromatics
  • fingering on

25 Mar

Scales

  • scales below standard today
  • make sure first time execution is good
  • scales contrary motion played with too many technical errors

6B

  • check LH bar 2
  • pedal every half bar
  • phrasing

Goodbye

  • phrasing a bit inaccurate, especially at edges which need to be soft
  • 25 onwards needs speed work to match rest of piece
  • bar 26 wrong left hand
  • watch pedalling

Comptine

  • LH way too heavy, you may want to have soft pedal to help with you this

18 Mar

Scales

  • G# harmonic minor needs F double sharp

Nuvole

  • same notes from last week incorrect
  • molto ritard, get slower, get

11 Mar

Scales

  • G# harmonic minor agian

Comptine

  • all about phrasing and balance this week
  • keep LH soft, but RH makes most of the dynamic change

Goodbye for now

  • keep tempo steady if you are getting louder
  • pedalling still needs to be focused on
  • bar 39 LH not on octave lower

Nuvole

  • careful LH volume, this is meant to be a lighter piece
  • keep in control at all times, don’t get to oquick too quickly
  • bar 33 incorrect LH
  • bar 43 incorrect LH

4 Mar

Scales

  • G# harmonic minor contrary

Comtpine

  • to be completed this week
  • watch coordination but this should be simple

26 Feb

Scales

  • B major contrary this week

Goodbye for Now

  • 17 onnwards, check notes, check ties, check position
  • practice wise, consider seperate hands
  • on a basic level consider dynamics

Comptine

  • watch LH fingering
  • bar 5-8 watch coordination
  • bar 17 watch coordination

19 Feb

Scales

  • review same scales, D# melodic minor and C minor grand scale

New piece: Comptine

Goodbye for Now

  • important to check where the left hand is
  • try to finish the entire piece this week

Nuvole

  • rhythm in bar 5, try to make a bit more tighter
  • bar 21-28 has many missing notes in RH
    • tone is generally too loud here

12 Feb

Nuvole

  • pedalling
  • bar 14 check LH
  • bar 15 check
  • bar 29-34 check coordination and fingering
  • 43 continue to be

New

5 Feb

Scales

  • D# melodic this week + C harmonic grand scale
  • can get correct scales faster

Tetris

  • fingering vitally important
    • for legato
  • can add LH first page this week

Nuvole

  • bar 43 is practiced too fast

29 Jan

Scales

  • do F# major and D# harmonic minor this week

Nuvole Bianche

24 Jan

Scales

  • Eb major grand scale, learn contrary motion
  • fourth finger rule done poorly

Nuvole Bianche

  • avoid gaps between bars when learning
  • bar 17-20, watch RH notes
  • bar 22 LH fingering

Personal interest piece: Tetris

17 Jan

Scales

  • start grade 6 scales this week

Jingpo

  • transitions are often missed
  • some parts need sectional practice

Nuvole Bianche

  • use pedal, and keep soft at the start
  • keep an eye out for small changes