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Goal for this week
- Scales hands together up to C melodic
- Nuvole – need to be speeding up, add phrasing
Long term goal
- grade 6 2021
Aural 4 Melrain
4 Apr
Nuvole
- need to gradually speed up during the piece, gradually get louder
- maybe start slower
- all melody needs to be phrased
- in general, needs work to become performance standard
- two mistakes
Comptine
- learn more during holidays
- be careful RH fingering
25 Mar
Goodbye for Now
- needs general flow first
- consistency games
- 2-4 times perfect
- LH only
- can I start from the middle
- this all builds MENTAL memory
- consistency games
- focus more on smaller sections than bigger if you don’t have enough time
11 Mar
Scales
- same scales this week
Goodbye
- phrase micro
- balance must be lighter
4 Mar
Scales: C melodic minor this week
Goodbye:
- keep phrasing
- on the right track, goal is bar 28 hands togeyther
25 Feb
New scale: C harmonic minor
Nuvole Bianche
- slow down start by a lot. metronome 40. can have a bit of rubato
- after that, tempo needs to speed up by a lot
- try full octaves in bar 5
- soft – fast down to the key but soft
- momentum must continue through the song keep getting faster
- for good tone, get shoulders down
- 35, pedal once a bar, relax shoulders, ping top note. LH must be soft here
Goodbye
- try to learn more this week – 1-2 lines of second page
- when phrasing, equal parts softer and louder
18 Feb
Scales
- 4th finger rule needed
- also, just practice in general, just go seperate hands
Goodbye
- bar 3, dotted rhythm here
- try phrasing
- goal 2nd page
Nuvole
- bar 5, don’t forget about LH
- bar 15, check RH coordination
- bar 23-24, missing RH not
- speed from bar 21 needs to increase
- pauses and slow down 33-34
- 35, lighter and quicker. aim for speed not loudness
11 Feb
Scales
- Eb major this week
Nuvole
- soft bits, much softer. Rely more on pedal. more RH!!!!!
- be careful of pedal blurring
- 43, don’t play extra notes
- 21 onwards, count in 3s, start phrasing
- missing note here 23-24
- check LH 33
- throughout the piece, get gradually louder and faster
- 35, everything soft except top line
Notes 4 Dec
Scale
- B major, one scale a week
Nuvole
- This is in good condition, so let’s focus on new second piece
Goodbye
- starting to learn this week, as much as you can
- 1 page, hands seperate, but hands together would be cool
Notes 15 Dec
Chords: 4 3 for major, 3 and 4 for minor
Goal for holidays: Jucaro Rumba up to bar 12
Notes 8 Dec
Scales: add C harmonic minor
Jucaro
- intensive work on RH this week
- hands seperate up to 13
Notes 1 Dec
Nuvole
- bar 1-4 are you counting?
- bar 5-12, make sure hands come down at the same time. RH down to the bottom of the key quickly. LH strong
- counting bar 21
- bar 26 LH
Jucaro Rumba
- bar 6 RH, bar 8 LH
Notes 24 Nov
Scales
Nuvole
- when going soft, quick down to the bottom of the keybed
- watch rhythm in bar 21 onwards, PHRASE HEAPS
- try to play parts legato, even with pedal.
- READING IS IMPORTANT FROM NOW ON!
- Goal: bar 43-50
Jucaro
- bar 4 RH, LH 1st page
Notes 17 Nov
Scales
- Eb major
- Go faster, 4 octaves
Nuvole Bianche
- bar 13 no extra notes
- rhythm in bar 21, important to check 4 lots of 3 quavers, count 123 123 123 123
- bar 25, check notes here
- bar 35, when managing LH, try to get on top of notes
- Also, everything should be soft except
- Pedal entire bars
Notes 10 Nov
Scales
- print out try B major
Nuvole
- first line, prioritise melody, floaty sound
- don’t accent repeated notes, accent first beat of the bar
- bar 9, check RH notes
- bar 14, check LH carefully
- 21, you can start heaps of phrasing
- this week you can skip ahead to bar 35.
Notes 3 Nov
Nuvole
- remember, the flats are B E A D
- No specific learning goal this week, learn as much as you can
Scales
- learn B major
