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Here you will find notes from lessons, personalised extra listening, tutorials, tricks and tips.
Student 1
12/10
Contrary Motion Scales - A major and A harmonic minor (video timestamp 13:30)
Beethoven: Left hand second half
Beethoven: Left hand second half
5/10
Beethoven hands together, adding a rise and fall to each mini phrase:
28/9
Beethoven - Hands together slowly
Chromatic Scale starting on A flat, and C HANDS SEPARATELY (video timestamp 14:23)
Chromatic Scale starting on A flat, and C HANDS SEPARATELY (video timestamp 14:23)
21/9
Be careful to catch this large shape:
14/9
Beethoven: Right and Left Hands Separately (first half)
Listen and see if you can hear the Ecossaise in the entire piece:
Listen and see if you can hear the Ecossaise in the entire piece:
student 2
12/10
Have a listen and choose your next piece:
5/10
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Hands together:
- Match up the left hand
- Add staccato
- Check if the hands work together or apart
- Match up the left hand
- Add staccato
- Check if the hands work together or apart
14/9
Student 3
12/10
Lazy Bear: Left hand melody (second half), look out for lowest octave
Scales: A major scale, LH, RH, Hands Together (video timestamp 1:15)
Sightreading: Page 8 & 9 take time to match up the left and right hands
Scales: A major scale, LH, RH, Hands Together (video timestamp 1:15)
Sightreading: Page 8 & 9 take time to match up the left and right hands
5/10
Lazy Bear: Think about staccato notes, and short notes with rests between them.
Sightreading: Page 7 - think about the dynamic changes
Sightreading: Page 7 - think about the dynamic changes
28/9
Lazy Bear:
Right hand chord shapes in the second time bar, and hands together (first half)
Scales - A major hands together, and Chromatic Scale starting on D (timestamp 9:00)
Sight reading - page 4 & 5 (find hand shape and look out for a flat OR a sharp in key signature)
Right hand chord shapes in the second time bar, and hands together (first half)
Scales - A major hands together, and Chromatic Scale starting on D (timestamp 9:00)
Sight reading - page 4 & 5 (find hand shape and look out for a flat OR a sharp in key signature)
21/9
Lazy Bear:
Right hand chord shapes (first half), and hands together slowly (first line)
Video recap - Introduction and A major Scale (first 5 mins)
Right hand chord shapes (first half), and hands together slowly (first line)
Video recap - Introduction and A major Scale (first 5 mins)
14/9
Lazy Bear:
Left hand melody (first half)
Left hand melody (first half)
Student 4
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Student 5
12/10
SIGHTREADING
No. 11 - [2 sharps] smooth flow, dynamic contrast
Listening: Romantic period composer
No. 11 - [2 sharps] smooth flow, dynamic contrast
Listening: Romantic period composer
5/10
SIGHTREADING
No. 6 - [2 flats] articulation = staccato
Aural: singing notes from a score
No. 6 - [2 flats] articulation = staccato
Aural: singing notes from a score
28/9
SIGHTREADING
No. 3 - [1 flat] melody changes from RH to LH
Listening: Classical period composer
No. 3 - [1 flat] melody changes from RH to LH
Listening: Classical period composer
21/9
SIGHTREADING
No. 2 - [1 sharp] Dynamics
Aural: Singing back a phrase (heard twice on piano)
No. 2 - [1 sharp] Dynamics
Aural: Singing back a phrase (heard twice on piano)
14/9
SIGHTREADING
No.5 - [no flat/sharp] compound rhythms
No.21 - [no flat/sharp] chords RH, dynamic contrast in 2nd half
Listening: 20th century (modern) composer
No.5 - [no flat/sharp] compound rhythms
No.21 - [no flat/sharp] chords RH, dynamic contrast in 2nd half
Listening: 20th century (modern) composer
Student 6
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