Lucas

25 Mar

Scales

  • increase practice
  • make sure it is 4 octaves
  • practice hands seperate
  • new scale: Ab contrary motion

Wistful Prelude

  • bigger rall at bar 8
  • take it not too loud in general
  • watch your pedalling, no pedal gaps
  • slow practice for mental memory

Alla Polacca

  • softer can be more delicate, especially
  • keep a constant semiquave speed
  • phrase up where you need to, but don’t stay loud
  • check 29-30
  • check LH bar bar 36

18 Mar

5C

  • satisfactory

5B

  • stablise speed

Scales

  • don’t restart twice
  • make sure it is 4 octaves
  • homework C# minor contrary

List D

  • hold pedal down to maintain bottom note
  • don’t over split chords
  • phrasing can be slightly louder for longer
  • bar 3 rhythm
  • bar 24 meno mosso, get slower

Sight reading

  • think about your speed before you start

11 Mar

5B

  • keep it rhythmically consistent

5C

  • keep beat consistent

New scale: C# minor contrary

List A

  • buildup in the 2nd page from mf to f can be more like p to f, dramatic
  • slow practice for ornaments

List C

  • keep initial sections much softer
  • save loud for the ending
  • slow practice for technical errors

4 Mar

Extra list: Quatrieme

  • go slow
  • check fingering

Moonlight Serenade

  • keep LH crotchet constant

5B

  • technique, do more direct

Scales

  • make sure it’s 4 octaves
  • increase speed
  • Bb melodic, check notes
  • new scale: E major contrary motion

List A

  • RH stronger

25 Feb

5A

  • check notes in left hand version

5B

  • this is a bit inaccurate, take a bit more time to learn it

Scales

  • go up to Bb harmonic minor

Waltz

  • can add pedal bar 22 for legato octaves
  • check pedal length bar 9 and 25
  • check RH staccatos bar 25

Alla Polacca

  • keep softer overall, especially LH
  • bar 12 check RH
  • 17 RH legato
  • bar 29-32 check all notes

19 Feb

Waltz

  • keep staccatos light and soft, for the waltz pattern
  • call and response, call louder, response softer
  • last bit is ‘playful’

5C

  • try metronome at 53

Wistful Prelude

  • beautiful playing, but try to keep within beat
  • metronome at 75

11 Feb

5C

  • keep working on rhythm

5B

  • try single notes first

5A

  • aim for accuracy here

Scales

  • revise current scales

Alla polacca

  • soft is the main dynamic
  • keep RH as priority
  • a lot of rhythm mistakes can be fixed by listening to recording

Wistful Prelude

  • voice melodic notes, bring them out

4 Feb

5C

  • all about rhythm

Scales

  • G# melodic minor and Db major

Wistful Prelude

  • great phrasing today
  • don’t overdo rubato
  • bar 16, LH not too fast
  • bar 21, don’t speed up too much
  • bar 23, breath mark, take a silent break

Sonata

  • RH dynamic priority
  • practice slow

New piece: Waltz

12 Dec

5 Dec

4A

  • accuracy improved this week

4B

  • watch fingering!

4C

  • do both hands, natural flick staccato motion

Scales

  • if correct, increase speed
  • Ab major and F natural goal new scales

Russian Waltz

  • can be more sparkly, slightly stronger RH
  • bar 33, dim into this section, super soft and dreamy here

28 Nov

4A

  • accuracy issue, slow down to prioritise accuracy

Start 4B

Scales inaccurate fingering today

Romanze

  • LH check bar 14
  • LH check bar 17
  • balance much more softer in LH. phrasing in RH
  • even as RH phrases, keep LH under control

Russian Waltz

  • heaps of phrasing, but less on p sections

21 Nov

Chaconne

Romanze

  • phrasing based
  • LH soft
  • bar 2, semiquaver fits in between
  • con dolcezza – with sweetly
  • check coordination of semiquavers, they come after triplets

14 Nov

Chaconne

  • learning methods
    • avoidance of mistakes critical
    • listen to recording rhythm
  • aim for a page or more this week, keep pushing how far you can learn

Ex 4A start

  • main element is phrasing
  • watch fingering carefully

Scales E major

7 Nov

  • general knowledge has room for improvement
  • technical ex, focus on phrasing
  • scales, still have time to do more accurate contrary motion.

Loure

  • don’t overdo loud parts
  • focus on articulation

Sonatina

  • metronome at 90 ideal for us
    • but when doing with metronome do with dynamics

Butterfly Waltz

  • generally take this lighter

24 Oct

Butterfly Waltz

  • keep pushing tempo forward for flow
  • phrase the soft notes in the first page

Sonatina

  • can bump speed up to 90, or even higher
  • bar 27 should be an octave

Loure

  • keep phrasing moderate
  • where you can try to get non-legato dynamics correct

18 Oct

Extra list

  • all about keeping it stable, don’t rush
  • don’t rush bar 8
  • phrase A LOT
  • when phrasing start soft on low
  • don’t speed up bar 38
  • watch rhythm in bar

11 Oct

Technical

3B

  • focus on the difference between mf and p

3C

  • play in the middle-zone

Scales

  • 4th finger rule on contrary motions
    • go slow if you can’t get it correct

List B

  • watch slurs
  • don’t speed up halfway
  • bar 17 onwards, count in 3s
  • bar 27 octave lower
  • don’t have gaps between bars
  • metronome at 75, then increase

List C

  • LH balance soft
  • 15 mf, keep mf, don’t get softer too much
  • riten at 28 much more slower
  • phrase a lot on second page
  • don’t speed up at 38