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Congrads on the program

Signt readng

evoew your pieces

Finish Etude Chopin

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Rest of your pieces

Complete the program

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1. Arabesque: recorded

2. SCCA / Modulation

3. Sight Reading

4. Ear Training: last year

5. Fugue

6. Etude

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1. Arabesque: prepare for 2nd recording

2. Modulation

3. SCCA

4. Ear Training: maybe recorded??

5. Sight Reading

6. Fugue: review and practice the 4 voices separately

7. Etude: we did the 1st and 2nd line (not the 5th measure). Keep practicing and have the polyrhythm down. Review rest of piece. Practice right hand as whole notes

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Prepare piece for to record

Complete the program

Arabesque

Fuge

Etude

SCCA

Modulation

Ear training

Sight Reading

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Etude

Complete Debussy

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1. Album Leaf: complete with dynamics

2. Etude: 2 lines amd repeats

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1. Fugue: first 2 lines hands together SLOWLY, look at third line

2. Arabesque: keep practicing first page, second page up to star actually put hands together LOL (find the patterns in the left hand triplets), look at last half of second page

3. Album Leaf: record next week

4. Need to learn Etude

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When life is going to fast, ritardando... Ritardandoing is the key to life (and in Arabesque measure 5)

Arabesque: Work on the polyrhythm section (right hand triplets and left hand half notes). Make sure you are secure with your notes first, practicing hands separate and then hands together nice and SLOW! Make sure you do not pause in the triplet parts.

First page hands together nice and slow

Second page work up until the star hands separate, especially in the left hand, make sure we

Needs to be worked on

1) Fugue

2) Album Leaf

3) Etude

4) Arabesque

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High School Diploma:

1. Prelude in C Major

2. Fugue in C Major

3. Moonlight Sonata mvt. 1 - C# minor

4. mvt. 2 - Db Major

5. mvt. 3 - C# minor

6. Fantasy in D minor

7. Album Leaf - A Major

8. Etude No. 2 in Ab Major

9. Bagatelles - C minor

10. Arabesque in E Major

Extra Scale: Eb minor

Need to review minor modulations and dom/dim 7th inversion arpeggios

Arabesque: keep practicing hands separate and have left hand on auto pilot and keep saying triplet when playing the right hand

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1. SCCA

2. Fugue: learn voices

3. Arabesque

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1. Album Leaf: keep practicing

2. Review Arabesque, Etude, and Fugue

3. Keep practicing SCCA requirements, especially modulations

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1. Album Leaf: focus on 1st and 2nd line of 2nd page, review and practice for recording in January

2. Etude

3. Arabesque

4. Fugue

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1. Recital Piece memory strong

2. Duet

3. Study songs

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𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒔

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1. Canon in D

2. Songs

3. Recital Piece complete and memorize

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1. Finish Canon in D so we can put the duet together. Have your part solid, remember that we will have the book.
2. mm 66-69 hands together slowly, 70-76 right hand slowly, 76-end hands togehter slowly. make sure rest of the piece is solid, no pausing

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1. Complete your recotal piece

2. Duet - complete

3. Song: Harmony

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Letter to the parents Recital Information.pdf

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COMPLETE the Recital Peace

Memory

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Continue with recital piece

Decide on the yearly goal

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Program, recital piece - Orange

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1. Arabesque: you just need a time
The concept is understood

You MUST complete it please

2. Waltz complete
work on intonation, [phrasing listed to you tube version

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1. Arabesque - complete

2. Sonata - review all 3 movements

3. Waltz - study

4. SCCA - your responsibility. Practice daily.

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Please have ready 3rd movement for recording.

The movement is memorized, just fix tempoes and dynamics

Arabesque: continue to work on

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Arabesque:
- Work on counting triplets and polyrhythms.
- Work slowly, hands separate and then bring together.

Moonlight Sonata, 3rd Movement:
- Work on pages 4-5, transitions and playing the rhythms on time.
- Page 9-10
- Page 14-15

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Complete 3 rd movement

Prepare SCCA for recordings

Bach Fuge needs work

work on balance

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Continue to work on the 3rd movement of Sonatina

Chopin look at

Bach Prelude and Fuge

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Recorded 2 nd movement

Need to record 3rd movement

Bach Fuge: start practicing. It takes long time to settle even though it is short.

Chopin:

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Work on the program

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Stuy your program.

Sonatina 3rd movement

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1, Program approved

2. Prelude Bach recorded

3. Requrements some to record next week

4. Fuge: continue to study

5. Sonata complete 1,2, movement

6. 3rd movement: give it a puch

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High School Diploma:
1. Prelude - keep working 2nd page, play right hand as chords, be mindful of dynamics
2. Fugue - did not start :(
3. Moonlight Sonata mvt 1 - keep practicing a ton! need to review!
4. mvt 2 - review review review!!!! did not hear :(
5. mvt 3
6. Fantasy - use recording from last year
7. Album Leaf - did not start :(
8. Etude - did not start :(
9. Bagatelles - use recording from last year
10. Arabesque - did not start :(
11. SCCA - review ALL requirements!!

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1. Sonata second movement:

find patterns and repeats

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1. Prelude review by memory
2. Fugue continue to work on voices.
3. Sonata mov 1" review by memory
4. Sonata 2 movement continue to learn

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Work on the program

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1. Prelude memorize
2. Fuge complete with the book
3. Sonata 1 movement memory
4. Sonata 2 movement complete memory
5. Sonata 3 movement complete slow with the book
6. Bagatelle review
7. Mazurka
8. Waltz - ?

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1. Prelude complete
work on dynamics as a plan for memorization

2. Fuque: Theams, 1 voice at the time

3. Sonata: continue to work on
memory 1 movement and second
3rd movement: complete in slow tempo.

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Prelude: first 3 lines, play the chord in the right hand instead of each note individually, left hand bass should be louder than the second note

Keep reviewing Moonlight Sonata all 3 mvts

If you have time, start looking at Arabesque and look up polyrhythms on youtube

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keep practicing yo scales or else >:(

Moonlight mvt. 1: C# minor, piercing top note in right hand, keep reviewing notes

mvt. 3: keep pushing the tempo on the first page, once you get that, the rest of the piece will flow

mvt. 2: keep reviewing your notes and keep everything at an even tempo, pay attention to legatos

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1. Moonlight mvt. 1: listen to how you play it and add appropriate dynamics, use left pedal in the last line

2. Moonlight mvt. 2: keep practicing

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Let There Be Peace on Earth Instrumental

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Let There Be Peace on Earth Instrumental

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1. Moonlight:
keep sound deep all the time even if you are playing piano

Solid memory

2. Second movement needs to be secure
3. movement complete

we need to start Glier

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Moonlight Sonata mvt. 1:
- really listen to where the dynamics should be played
- fix problem areas

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1. Moonlight:
me;ody in left deeper
pedal mesure 13 extra note
left pedal for pp consider
ms 52 hick up and 53-end sustain the plan

3 movement of Sonata complete
correct fingerings are important

Program review

High school Diploms upon us

please warm up on scales

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Happy First Day of October!

Sonata First Movement

Measure 35 first note on the right hand be careful! It is F-SHARP

Dynamics

Nicely memorized :)

Sonata Second Movement

Measure 21 remember natural f, no f sharp!

Every note is flat except f and c!!!

Completed the whole piece today yay!

Work on it very slowly. Focus on the first measure to the first repeat sign, correct rhythm* and no pausing between measures

*remember the difference between tempo and rhythm :)

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Sonata mvt. 1 - find balance of sounds between right and left hand, make the 3rd voice piercing, add in appropriate crescendos and decrescendos

mvt. 2 - keep reviewing the notes, keep even tempo, legatos then staccato right away

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1. Scales
2. Chords/Cadences
3. Arpeggios
4. Moonlight 2 movement

practice with the book slow to make sure that all the parts are correct
check measure 35

relaxation playing triplets
movement of the patterns and base

2 movement

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1. Bach 3 part invention
2. Bach French Suite Courante
3. Mozart: Fantasy in d minor
4. Beethoven Moonlight # 14 1
5. Beethoven  # 14 2
6. Beethoven # 14 3
7. Shubert: Waltz in a minor # 2
8. Chopin: Mazurka op 63 # 3
9. Reinhold Gliere Prelude op 43 # 1
10. Tzerepnin Bagatlle # 1
11. Scales
12. Chords/ Cadences/ Modulations
13.Arpeggios
14. Sight Reading
15. Ear Training

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1. SCCA

High school diploma requrements

1. Moonlight 1 st movement complete by memory
smooth connection

ending with left pedal

pauses m 25, 27, 57-58

keep always accent the fist note of the triplet.

make sure that each creshendo gets to its highst pont in melody.

2. 2 movement:
complete both hands and memorize

3. 3 movement: comllete the whole movement

4. Invention:

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1. Moonlight 1 st Movement complete by memory.
2. Complete 2nd movement pay atentio to articulation slurs
3. Work on 3 movement : have a goal 2 systems per day.

Practice every day.

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Moonlight Movement 1:
- Work on voicing the top notes with the stems up. (played slightly before the bottom notes)
- Cycle in small sections and work on transitions between sections to remove pausing.
-Finish the piece.
- Express the music using different dynamics for the phrases.

Moonlight Third Movement:
- Continue working on it.
- Cycle Measure by measure and then work on transitions between them.
- Don't worry about speed. Focus on getting comfortable playing with correct notes and rhythms at a slow tempo.
-Start working on phrasing.
- treat the staccatos as the percussion and the main melody as the guitar or violin.
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Moonlight Movement 1:
- good job memorizing first page but still practice with the book
- second page completed no pausing.
- third page work on right hand, we did together. Better be completed
- work on fourth page which is almost a repeat of the first/second page

Moonlight Third Movement:
- Work on the first page hands separate and then hands together.

Alex’s Quote of the Day:
“High note funny” - Alex Cheng 15:57

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1. Inention # 1 3 part:
1 page bass line and soprano line.

Complete 2 pasts as a melodic line with correct fingers.

2. Moonlight:

Middle layer: round motion: first notes of the triplet
then chords. complete for the whole movement
Bass complete

now notes, chords careful with wrists, counts, accidentals!!!!
c 3# minor

review of the other pieces.

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1.Major, minor,diminished, augmented triads in any position
2. Major, minor harmonic, minor natural, mino melodic and whole tone scale
3. Cadences Plagal or Authentic
4. chords: major, minor, diminished, augmented, Dominant, D7, diminished 7

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Print and start

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A child prodigy, Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was eight years old and his first opera at 12. He went on to write some of the most important masterpieces of the Classical era, including symphonies, operas, string quartets and piano music.

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Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457 1st movement Sheet music for Piano

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A child prodigy, Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was eight years old and his first opera at 12. He went on to write some of the most important masterpieces of the Classical era, including symphonies, operas, string quartets and piano music.

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High School Diploma:
1) Fifteen Three Part Inversion - Bach
- All three lines have to have different sounds
2) Courante -
- Instead of Prelude and fugue
3) Waltz in A Minor No. 2 - Schubert
4) Moonlight Movement 1 - Beethoven
- We worked on the first page hands together
5) Moonlight Movement 2 - Beethoven
6) Moonlight Movement 3 - Beethoven
- Please do not cry, you have one year
7) Mazurka
8) Fantasy in D Minor
9) Bagatelles
10) ...

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1.  Work on yur program to complete recordings

3 movement
light and listen

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After finishing with Andrew's lessons, you will be ready to watch Dr. B who goes further into more advance theory. He covers college level harmonic analysis topics.

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This guy gives free theory Lessons starting from the very basic concepts. He does not go to far in learning advance harmony but he is great to watch when first learning music theory topics.

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1. Invention need recording
2. Sonata Movement 2 and 3: Keep learning the second movement.
3. Bagatelle

Review all your scales, chords/cadences, and arpeggios.

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Sonatina 2 and 3 movement memory and ready to record

Scales get ready to finish

Work on the balance between hands

The goal is to finish recording right after the break.

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Recorded:  Sonatina 1 movement
Mazurka
Fantasy in

C major
d minor
F major

Bagatelle next Bach

2 and 3 movement

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1. Sonatina- work on 2nd and 3rd movement
2. Bagatelle- work on putting piece together
3. Scales
4. Chords/Cadences
5. Arpeggios
6. Bach 2 part Invention in C
7. Mozart Fantasy in d minor
8. Chopin Maxurka op 68 # 3 recorded

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Continue to prepare your pieces for recirdings

1. Scales
2. Chords/ Cadences
3. Arpeggios
4. Bach 2 part Invention in C
5. Mozart Sonata in C I movement
6. Mozart Sonata in C 2 movement
7. Mozart Sonata in C 3 movement
8. Mozart Fantasy in d m
9. Chopin Maxurka op 68 # 3 recorded
10. Tzerepnin Bagatelle #

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Scales, chords, and arpeggios from all the pieces.

Mazurka:: Cycle areas that need it

Sonata I Movement 1:

Pay attention to the range.

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Continue to work on your program and review all your pieces, SCCA that goes with your pieces as required

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Mazurka First Page

Second line, second and third measure careful with the transition, key area to be careful

At the end of the third line make sure we do not lose the rhythm, do not rush

Work on the last three lines with notes and rhythm

Mazurka Second Page

Poco piuuuuuuuuu section make sure the right hand has correct notes and rhythm (eighth notes mostly)

Tempo I section practice

Sonata I Movement 1:

“Left hand wrist sometimes fell low it is when left hand is playing accompaniment”

Careful with treble clef and bass clef changes

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Chopin Mazurka in F Major, Op. 68, No 3  performed by Marjan Kiepura