Jay Jenkinson

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Student 1

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Contrary Motion Scales - A major and A harmonic minor (video timestamp 13:30)

Beethoven: Left hand second half

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Beethoven hands together, adding a rise and fall to each mini phrase:
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Beethoven - Hands together slowly

Chromatic Scale starting on A flat, and C HANDS SEPARATELY (video timestamp 14:23)

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Be careful to catch this large shape:
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Beethoven: Right and Left Hands Separately (first half)

Listen and see if you can hear the Ecossaise in the entire piece:
student 2

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Have a listen and choose your next piece:
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Hands together:

- Match up the left hand
​- Add staccato
- Check if the hands work together or apart
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Student 3

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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

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Lazy Bear: Think about staccato notes, and short notes with rests between them.

​Sightreading: Page 7 - think about the dynamic changes

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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)

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Lazy Bear:
Right hand chord shapes (first half), and hands together slowly (first line)


Video recap - Introduction and A major Scale (first 5 mins)

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Lazy Bear:
​Left hand melody (first half)
Student 4

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Student 5

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SIGHTREADING
No. 11 - [2 sharps] smooth flow, dynamic contrast

​Listening: Romantic period composer

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SIGHTREADING
No. 6 - [2 flats] articulation = staccato

Aural: singing notes from a score

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SIGHTREADING
No. 3 - [1 flat] melody changes from RH to LH

Listening: Classical period composer

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SIGHTREADING
No. 2 - [1 sharp] Dynamics

Aural: Singing back a phrase (heard twice on piano)

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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

Student 6

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