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Long term goal
- grade 7
25 June
- a lot less flexibility on rhythm here
- check ALL wrong notes
- 12-13
- 15
- tie bar 25
- check rhythm 30
List C
- needs to be counted
- check octave
18 June
- slow practice for security and wrong notes
- quaver = 75 is slow practice
- wider range of ‘moods’ created by different dynamics
- entire section goes too loud sometimes
List D
- 19 pp?!
- 25 rhythm completely wrong
- 30, ti tika
Scales: D# harmonic minor
- Ab major grand scale as well
4 June
List B
- serious errors still in piece
List A
- lighter overall
- don’t overpedal
- serious errors still in piece
List D
- pp dynamics too loud
28 May
List D
- pedalling!
- rhythm bar 30
- rhythm bar 25
List C
- harp in bar 29, short LH
- 35, sad and soft
21 May
Tech work lagging behind, needs to be good
7 May
Scales
- needs to be hands together
- contrary motion scales this week chromatics
List A
- purely wrong notes
- slow practice
List B
List B
- needs slow practice for notes
- expression more bigger
26 Mar
List B
- storm and stress
- dynamics should be varied and big
List A
- should be lighter overall
- CHECK YOUR NOTES
7A
- check notes
Chord Progressions
- do legato fingering
19 Mar
List B
- check all ornaments
12 Mar
- bar 11 check note
- bar 18 no slowing down
- poco rall in bar 20
- meno mosso – less movement, count here properly
- 29, go louder more ugly
26 Feb
7B
- this exercise is about legato
Ab grand scale for homework
List D
- keep much softer
- some notes loud (stems up)
- slower bar 25. don’t forget tie and count

- 29, look out for accents
- ending, slow down, slowly fade away
19 Feb
Tech
7A
- check notes in the ending
Grand scales
- 4th finger rule
12 Feb
List A
- check all wrong notes
- slow practice
- separate hands practice
List B
- too many notational errors, be a lot more careful
9 Dec
Do all exercises
List D
- need to check notes and positions
30 Nov
Etude
- please check notes again
- check pedalling, pedalling his half on and off
- RH check mezzo staccato
- senza pedale – without pedal
23 Nov
Jingle Bell Rock
- harmonisation
- improv
- more chords
Stars
- reading is on the right track
- must check correct position
Etude
- slow practice
- fix note
26 Oct
Etude
- check correct notes
- pp keep always soft
- p phrasing, focus on softs
- sempre staccato, always soft
Scales: Ex 7A and B harmonic minor grand scale
19 Oct
Etude
- RH mezzo staccto
- add pedal
- follow dynamics
- also phrase
- softs are soft
- also phrase
5 Oct
Learn Etude
- Ex 7A
- D major Grand Scale
Ideally pick a List B C D if you can
29 Sep
Cuckoo
- dynamics, softer soft
- keep fingers close to the piano
- articulation in LH, needs a rest
Allegro
- dolce sections, no staccato especially in LH
- at least don’t do LH loud
Noturrno
- bar 9
- inner chords ALWAYS soft
- phrase TOP line
- bar 15 should maintain same speed LH
- bar 21 too loud, especially ppp
- focus on soft instead of missing notes
Fiesta
- only slowing down for poco rubato
- 2nd page generally too loud
- bar 47 too fast
- hold 6 quavers here

- soft ending for ff surprise
Nuvole
- bar 30-32, check LH notes
- speed up throughout the piece
Attempt exam recording this week
14 Sep
Fiesta
- articualtion LH bar 11
- dynamics page 2
- counting in 15-18
- monster gap bar 34-35
- 43-45 way too slow
- GO SLOWER, GO STABLE
- at least get the correct rhythm
Nocturne
- inner voices way too loud

- watch soft dynamics
- funny notes, watch out
7 Sep
Cuckoo
- dyanmics
- articulation
- correct notes
Allegro
- articulation
- keep mp dolce long and soft
Record List C and D
Nuvole
- balance needs to be lighter
31 Aug
Cuckoo
- stability of tempo and rhythm
- slow practice
- metronome practice
- metro practice at 105
- dynamics?
- articulation
Allegro
- softer softs
- keep them soft
- check articulation
Nocturne
- softer overall
- phrase carefully
Fiesta
- pedal
- dynamics
Record two pieces: Allegro and Cuckoo
24 Aug
Scales
- practice soft hands seperate
- what happened to arpeggios?
Fiesta
- don’t rush 23

- bar 29, keep it soft
- bar 34 cresc
- slow practice – needs more, needs to be slower
Notturno
- bar 25, careful of dynamics!

- in general needs softer inner sections
- bar 58, wait 3 beats

- check notes here bar 53-54

- bar 15, keep LH as light as possible

17 Aug
Scales
- don’t have warmups
- do inversions out of order
Fiesta
- list of mistakes are small, but severe
- wrong counting, fixed by slow practice (6 quavers in a bar)
- incorrect notes, fixed by reading
10 Aug
6A
- in the wrong spot!
Scales
- arpeggios need work
Cuckoo
- dynamics more obvious
- p dynamic especially
Allegro
- Focus on articulation
- check LH bar 35 for extra note

Nocturne
- inner parts very soft
- top melody decides phrasing
- bar 15 keep soft, get timing right, follow LH
- 23 note check

- check pedaling in 21 onwards
- bar 43 LH, check

- extra notes 51

- check notes here

3 August
Scales
- not bad, but can only start once
- chord pattern, no pedal
- some arpeggios poor
- scales need to be from memory
Cuckoo
- LH articulation (rest) needed
- needs slow practice, unstable
- dynamics not noticible right now
- SLOW PRACTICE FOR LIST A B AND D
- MOST MARKS LOST FOR INCONSISTENCY RIGHT NOW
Slow practice
- needs to be slow
- focus on correct notes
- dynamics
- articulation
27 July
Excercises
- dynamics exaggerate
Scales
- arpeggios don’t start correctly
Notturno
- softs softer, in bar 1, bar 21, bar 15, everywhere basically
- bar 15, needs to be faster
List B
- careful of soft bits, all soft bits must be softer
- articulation, think long short short short
20 July
Scales
- on the right track now
Fix You
- check LH notes
Nocturne
- check coordination and inner part not too loud bar 9

- 15 coordination, RH not too heavy

- notes incorrect 23

- notes incorrect 31

- 25 incorrect

- 42 LH

- many mistakes 52

13 July
Technical
- EXCERCISES need more DYNAMICS
Scales
- excecute first time
Fiesta
- metronome at 83 (or 249)
- beat must be constant
- dyanmics then need to be accurate
- especially the softs
Allegro
- this is actually pretty okay
- still some mistakes but not super critical or too many
- watch articulation
- long short short short

Notturno
- this has many wrong notes
- coordination issues: are the notes coming together at the right time
- look at this first thing next week
10 July
6A
- dynamics
- start in the RIGHT SPOT
- don’t mush LH together
6B
- pedal
- phrasing
- go slower
- cool
6C
- good
Scales
- p -> f, f -> p
- D# melodic minor fail?
- D# harmonic minor
- G# harmonic minor contrary
- Bb harmonic minor contrary
- WRONG NOTES ARE BECAUSE OF BAD PRACTICE, NOT BAD TECHNIQUE
- PRACTICE SLOW
- ARPEGGIOS NEED TO BE ABLE TO START WITHIN SECONDS, NOT MINUTES
- SCALES NEED TO BE MEMORISED
- WITHOUT BOOK
- EXAM STYLE SCALES
- ask yourself a scale with specific requirements
- can you do that scale on the spot
3 July
Allegro
- avoid a careless sound
- caused by wrong notes
- bad dynamics
- mp dolce
- soft
- long notes
- delicate phrasing
Nocturne
- inner LH softer
- more careful and planned phrasing
- CAREFUL of LH and RH coordination ALWAYS
- cold winters day
- slow
- inner part ultra soft
- phrase carefully
- pp piu mosso,
Fiesta
- precision in articulation and note lengths, as well as precision in dynamics
- precision in pedalling
22 June
Nuvole
- 21 no chords, all ties
- also watch out for LH here
- 29-31 need massive note checks
Fix You
- don’t speed up, keep a stable speed
8 June
Scales/Excercises
- prepare all scales
- must be exam style prepared
- one playthrough, one correct playthrough
- no bumbling around
- also has to be from memory
Fiesta
- no gap bar 14-15

- 60-61, wait for 6 quavers here

- hold note 51, also in 27
- middle section consistent
Nocturne
- accompanying chords ALWAYS softer
- 21 even softer in piu mosso section
- softs show the examiner you care
- fix sections 51-54
Allegro
- prioritise notes
1 June
6A
- LH smudging
- dynamics
6B
- phrasing
- wait for correct time bar
Scales
- dynamics for scales add
- arpeggios need work, play correctly the first time
Fiesta
- still need slow and stable work
- accuracy with dynamics, needs to be intentional
- bar 11 LH rests

- bar 15, not such a big gap here
Notturno
- coordination not correct in many key sections, be more care ful
- inner part (accompaniment) should always be soft
- coordination bar 15
- notes 51-54
25 May
6A
- don’t smudge notes
- see dynamics
Scales
- generally okay for 3 months out
Cuckoo
- check fingering bar 21

- bar 60 timing, don’t stop
- at the end, slow down a bit (pochissimo rall)
Allegro
- tiny notes not fast in mp dolce
- long and soft notes
- no pedal
- don’t jump off the keys high
Fiesta
- middle section still need slow and stable work
18 May
Scales
- D# melodic minor
6A
- check where you are starting
- bar 2 is wrong
- don’t hold more than one note at once
- DYNAMICS
6B
- phrasing
- missing Bb
- pedal
6C
- good
Cuckoo
- rests between LH cuckoo patterns
- more dynamics
- bar 30, mistake RH

- bar 33-35, count number of bars

- bar 60 wrong LH

Allegro
- repeated notes in LH bar 16

- mp dolce more quiter and calm
- small acciacaturas in not to fast

- be really careful with use of pedal
- past bar 70, still lots of wrong notes
Fiesta
- keep all 3 quaver groups same speed
- look out for detail
11 May
Scales
- D# melodic minor
Cuckoo
- LH articulation
- semiquavers even
- can we hear cuckoo
- don’t slow down on ornaments
- bar 60 notes LH
Allegro
- wrong notes
- mp dolce, softer
Nocturne
- LH/accompaniments softer
- COORDINATION ISSUE
4 May
Scales
- D# melodic minor
Cuckoo
- make sure all ornaments are ‘clean’
- make sure speed is the same for entire piece
- check all fingerings as well
Nocturne
- bar 15 is not coordinated

- bar 21 RH is completely wrong!

Fiesta
- go slower for ALL details. ONLY details need work, technique is good
- for details, practice WITHOUT mistakes
27 Apr
Scales to check
- D# melodic minor
Nocturne
- pedal accurately
- check bar 9 carefully

- 15, group RH notes carefully

- una corda – soft pedal, tre corda – no soft pedal
- check bar 47 onwards
Cuckoo
- make sure there’s a gap between cuckoo part
- a few wrong notes, especially from bar 44 onwards
- dynamics
- soft dynamics
20 Apr
6B
- go slower
- use pedal
- check notes bar 2
- do phrasing
Scales to check
- D# melodic minor, check notes up and down
- Bb minor contrary, 4th finger rule
Nocturne
- present next week
Cuckoo
- dynamics
- metronome for consistency metronme = 100
Notes 30 Mar
Nuvole,
- notes are wrong, but will fix in term 2
- from 21, needs more phrasing
Scales
Scales to do:
- G# harmonic minor contrary
- Bb harmonic minor contary
- all arpeggio fingerings
- Eb dominant 7
Cuckoo
- Notes need to be correct
Fiesta
- focus on slow but consistent
Notes 23 Mar
Scales to do:
- G# harmonic minor contrary
- Bb harmonic minor contary
- all arpeggio fingerings
- Eb dominant 7
Allegro
- work on dynamics
- less pedal
- more details to work on
cuckoo
- rests between cuckoo are important

- fix ALL notes this week
Notes 16 Mar
Scales
- G# harmonic minor contrary needs work
Allegro
- wrong sections need to be re-read
- soft sections legato, pay attention to slurs
- bigger difference between loud and soft
- notes improved this week 🙂
- mp dolce, RH sweet, LH very soft
Notes 9 Mar
6C
- good
Scales
- arpeggios SO MUCH BETTER 🙂
- now time to test all scales each lesson
Allegro
- still some missing notes and wrong, can be found by ‘easter egg’ practice
- goal is to have all notes correct by next week
Notes 23 Feb
Scales
- only allow yourself one try with scales
6A
- not so fast
- check bar 2
Notes 16 Feb
Arpeggios
- still need to reliably play inversions
- don’t play root, 1st, 2nd, do all 2nds
6C
- good
Fiesta
- do not worry about fluency until notes are correct
- mistakes to fix in page 2

- middle section must be carefully fixed this week.
Cuckoo
- Slow practice required again, many of the expressions are already correct if notes were correct.
Notes 9 Feb
6A
- check bar 2 notes
6B
- where is Bb
- much slower
Scales to watch
- D# harmonic and melodic minor
- G# harmonic minor contrary
- Bb harmonic minor contrary
- Inversions of arpeggios, check fingering. Go seperate hands as well when fixing issues
Fiesta
- Accurate dynamics required in general
- poco rubato – stretch time a bit
- see page for wrong notes, page 2 especially
Notes 2 Feb
Fix You
- check note LH bar 2

- check LH bar 18

- this entire section is weird

Notes 1 Dec
Fix You
- many wrong notes, but just for this week, work on expression
- your responsibility for art show
Fiesta
- articulation LH bar 11. Don’t slow down in 14

- keep trying at home 2nd page. Read carefully
Cuckoo
- cuckoo pattern should always come above everything
- there are many wrong notes. try to fix them before next week using concentration.
Notes 24 Nov
Arpeggios: getting better! :). Present similar motions next week
Fiesta
- check number of notes bar 9-10 RH. Hit sf hard, then back away.

- we’ve done lots of work here, keep it up. Are notes correct? do the need to come together?

- LH note bar 47

- basic expressions: get the dynamics right
Fix You
- bar 6-10 check RH

- bar 18-19 bar check coordination

- check LH notes in bar 31

Notes 17 Nov
Scales: keep practicing, don’t learn inversion off root
Ex 6C: good
Cuckoo
- LH articulation always same. Long short rest
- Rhythm fix here:

- bar 36 is missing?

- watch tie in LH 41

- check LH notes bar 51

- check notes bar 56

Fiesta
- check number of notes bar 9

- bar 11, make sure we can hear all the notes

- fade away, bar 15

- hold tie 27

Notes 10 Nov
Scales
- continue to check all arpeggios
Fiesta
- bar 1, group into two groups of three. Check fingering
- bar 3, LH position higher

- LH rests 11-14

- count here

- do notes that belong to the RH in this section. You can see the L shape lines
- bar 27 hold note

- check LH positions and notes in this section

- bar 51 hold top note

- bar 59-60 6 quavers, 61 lower

Fix You