Youtube Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxU_OGndc5q95iO0bM3H7dEo3XbrJIy6s
Google Drive
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lkvir8nLlb0hYXCl94lLbxWVzIf5bLS1?usp=sharing
Long Term Goal
- Grade 5
25 Mar
Scales
- new scale: Bb harmonic minor
5C
- metronome at 58
Moonlight
- dynamics
- balance
- rhythm
- be intentional with practice
Jingpo Folk Song
18 Mar
Scales
- current scales unsatisfactory
- try hands seperate if struggling
Jingpo Folk Song
- make sure LH quaver rhythm is consistent
- see learning goal
Sight reading – average strength, accuracy sometimes careless
11 Mar
Scale
- B major well done, but uneven. Rhythm practice for evenness
- Db major, go this week again
Jingpo Folk Song
- see goal for this week
Moonlight Serenade
- balance
- pedal
- overall dynamic decided by the right hand
4 Mar
5C
- don’t clump triplets together
Scales
- keep working G# harmonic minor
- new scale Db major
Moonlight Serenade
- errors in 14-21, read carefully
Jingpo: main focus this week for notes
25 Feb
Scales
- same as before, increase speed and further improve speed
Moonlight Serenade
- even if not perfect, try controlling dynamic
- accuracy still key for learning
Jingpo Folk
- watch coordination
- watch RH fingering
18 Feb
5C
- keep working on this
Scales
- B major can be faster
- please work on G# harmonic minor
- curve fingers
Spinliedchen
- LH less active, softs softer
- bar 27
- LH rests important
- accompanying parts need to be softer
- bar 14 has missing note LH
11 Feb
Moonlight Serenade
- even though fingering is not super important, watch fingering
- if possible, try to get a softer sound, especially in RH
Spinliedchen
- aim for soft LH when repeating pattern
- 27 RH soft
4 Feb
Spinliedchen
- LH soft
- are all the notes played in chord bar 5
- watch fingering 11-18
- 27 onwards, make sure quaver beat is steady
Moonlight Serenade
- LH accuracy key at this stage
- 1st page hands together
26 Nov
Scales
- fingering in B major incorrect
- new scale: G# harmonic minor
- Fx is a double sharp (same as G)
Spinliedchen
- bar 3, lift at end of slurs, short staccato, leggiero light and short
- bar 11, cresc, plan out
- bar 27, RH soft, LH melody
19 Nov
Spinli
5 Nov
Machines on the Loose
- cut the little gaps out
- start a medium speed and maintain that speed
- cresc at the end start softer
Etude
- start soft, and start needs to be the same speed
- dynamics everywhere, especially hairpin bar 17
Allegro
- go slower
- try to get staccatos
Tartan
- don’t get faster in bar 33, same speed for
- dyanmics
29 Oct
Machines on the Loose
- cut the little gaps out
- keep RH slurred
Etude
- start soft
- think about speed at the start
- try to do dynamic in bar 17
- ‘sticky’ LH
Tartan
- dynamics
- slow practice – aim for perfect practice
- watch for sticky staccatos
Allegro
- staccatos
22 Oct
Machines
- watch 15-16, practice notes carefully
- things to watch
- RH slur, and is the note clear
- have clear dynamics, especially in the RH
Etude
- bar 62 LH still wrong!
- bar 39 RH fingering
- 71 RH
- check 23-24 LH
- increase speed, but with correct notes
Machines
- practice slow and consistent tempo
- do dynamics while going slow
- danger zones
- 7-8
- 15-16
- 33
- 35
- watch that slurs are slurred
- practice all slow this week
Tartan
- can speed up provided it is correct
- watch for your staccatos
- do some dynamics if you can
Etude
- still watch fingering in bar 24, all slurred. Also watch left hand notes here
- watch pedalling 33 onwards, don’t do extra
- bar 62 LH incorrect
- seperate LH 35, RH legato
- watch fingering RH 40
Allegro
- watch staccatos bar 1-8
- watch slurs bar 17
8 Oct
Etude
- bar 24 fingering
- bar 5-6 fingering
- get it consistent slow, then consistent medium, then consistent fast
- split practice between slow practice and fast practice
- slow practice for notes and fingering
- fast practice to get faster
Machines
- no gaps between lines on first
- don’t rush rhythm 25
- slow down bar 31
- check rhythm in ending (42-43)
Tartan
- staccatos are better, but check all of them
- are you playing ALL LH CHORDS?
- practice 29-32 seperately
- 41 speed up to full
1 Oct
Machines
- listen to rhythm on recordings
Allegro
- attention to
- dynamics
- staccato
- is every note coming out?
Tartan
- consistency in rhythm most important
Etude
- bar 24, fingering RH still wrong
- 62 LH not correct
17 Sep
Etude
- watch for key fingerings
- bar 23
- bar 33 onwards RH
- 33 onwards
- watch fingering
- pedal
- staccato LH
Machines
- inaccurate at
- 9-16
- 25-32 LH
- last 3 lines
Allegro
- slow, and look up practice
- staccatos
- dynamics
10 Sep
Etude
- watch fingering in bar
- 6
- 23-24
- 39-41
- begin to speed up, but with CORRECT FINGERING
- LH different in bar 62
Allegro
- recovery and maintenance work not going super well
- need to look up at the book
3 Sep
Etude
- mostly correct now, but we are looking for consistent quavers, as the entire piece is quavers.
- start slow, but then get quicker
- fingering bar 71
- bar 62 LH chord, E G A# C
Tartan
- this has similar issues to Etude, consistency of quavers is most important
- bar 39, LH notes wrong
- bar 33-40 in general is a dangerous section
- speed changes are wild! constant changes from slow to fast
Allegro
- this needs to be maintained through slow accurate practice
26 Aug
Etude
- fingering bars 1-8
- bar 17, LH staccato and seperateds
- bar 24 fingering
- bar 35 LH droopy 😦
Machines
- watch 15-16 notes
- all quavers must be even
- how slow should the practice be then?
13 Aug
- watch ties in LH bar 1-8 and fingering
- watch fingering bar 9-16
- bar 24, watch RH fingering, LH chords need to have sharp
6 Aug
- are all chords seperate?
- easy to make sure if they are staccato
- don’t lift off too high on stacactos to make sure they are not too loud
- check notes
- 47 RH
- increase speed gradually and correctly
Etude