LESSON PAGE.  SHEINBERG

Lesson notes. February 11, 2025

Scales:​
  • Next Scale: A Major
  • Key Focus Areas:
    • Maintain round fingers throughout the scales.
    • Avoid rushing when playing arpeggios and dominant broken chords to ensure evenness and clarity.
Bach in D Major:
  • Chord Analysis: We will pause chord analysis for now due to the complexity introduced by numerous passing notes, making chord identification challenging.
  • Status: This piece is now passed. Keep it in your repertoire and play it about once a week, especially if you consider performing it for the spring jury.
  • Corrections:
    • Measure 7: G natural
    • Measure 11: C natural
    • Measure 27: C sharp
    • Measures 79 & 80 (Left Hand): F natural
    • Measure 81: C sharp
    • Measure 88 (32nd notes): Watch for C sharp
  • Performance Note: Play the last line with a freestyle approach.
Mendelssohn:
  • Current Piece: Passed.
  • New Assignment: Opus 53, No. 1
Schumann:
  • Select a new piece from this collection.
  • Send recordings of No. 1 and No. 7 for review to officially pass them.
You'll Never Walk Alone:
  • I have received the choir piece PDF you sent.
  • We will begin reviewing it in your next lesson.
Keep up the good work and see you at our next lesson!

Scales.  Levine Curriculum Level SEVEN.
exercises 1a - 1b - 1j - 1L - 2a - 2d - 3a - 3b
(C, G, D, A, E, B, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb Major.      
Minor: A, E, B, F#, C#, D, G, C, F, Bb, Eb minor)
ALFRED COMPLETE BOOK OF SCALES
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Classical style pieces

"Scenes from Childhood" by Robert Schumann.  
1 (Traumerei)
​7 (Of Strange Lands and People)
schumann_scenes_from_childhood.pdf
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Mendelssohn. "Songs without Words"
Op. 53 Nr.1 ​in A-flat major
mendelssohn-sww_op53_nr.1.pdf
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mendelssohn-sww_op102_nr.4.pdf
File Size: 1966 kb
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BACH.  Prelude Nr.5 in D Major
bach_chord_analysis.pdf
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​Jazz, show tunes and popular styles

"You'll Never Walk Alone"
you’ll_never_walk_alone.pdf
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"Like a River in My Soul"
coming soon
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Considering learning numbers from "Frozen":
"Let It Go"
LET IT GO
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You may enjoy playing from this book:
PEANUTS
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Scores from "The Phantom of the Opera"

"The Phantom of the opera"
PHANTOM score 1 We are using this one
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"My Romance"
MY ROMANCE
File Size: 90 kb
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my_romance_with_fewer_chords.pdf
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"I Could Write a Book"
I COULD WRITE A BOOK
File Size: 1278 kb
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"Take the A Train", by Duke Ellington
take_the_a_train.pdf
File Size: 101 kb
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​LONDONDERRY AIR (Danny Boy)

LONDONDERRY AIR -Danny Boy-
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GREENSLEEVES

Greensleeves
File Size: 232 kb
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MOLLY MALONE

Molly Malone
File Size: 237 kb
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Jazz -chart: IF EVER I WOULD LEAVE YOU
If Ever I Would Leave You
File Size: 112 kb
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MUSICAL THEATRE STYLE
PURE IMAGINATION 
pure-imagination.pdf
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MENDELSSOHN Op.30 Nr.6
MOZART Sonata KV 300 in F Major
ANDY LA VERNE Shoah
COLE PORTER Night and Day
​SAM POST Mournful Rag
ALBENIZ Granada
​GRANADOS. DANZA Nr. 5
BOLCOM. Graceful Ghost Rag
MOZART. Fantasy in D minor
FRENCH SUITE IN D MINOR
ALLEMANDE
COURANTE
​SARABANDE
MENUET 1 Bach/Pezold
MENUET 2 Bach/Pezold
​GIGUE
GRANADOS Danza Nr.5
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graceful_ghost_rag_by_william_bolcom.pdf
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ALBENIZ - GRANADA. 8/25/2020
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mournful_rag.pdf
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PASSED: Chart reading and Improvisation.  Autumn Leaves 

12/1
Focused on the first two lines.
1- play through the melody
2- improvise based on the melody
3- improvise completely independent from the melody.  Don't overplay too many notes on the RH, or it will become too difficult.  Create nice melodies that are easy to remember

You can improvise using notes from the G Major scale and other time, notes from the E Minor scale.  Attached here below is a chart with the indications on when to use G Major and when to use E Minor.
autumn_leaves_-analysis-.pdf
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AUTUMN LEAVES blank chart
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AUTUMN LEAVES melody-bass-chords
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PASSED: Replacement piece in jazz style: Night and Day by Cole Porter

NIGHT AND DAY score for piano
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PASSED but not polished enough for jury: Take Five, by Paul Desmond
take_five_blank.pdf
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PASSED: JAZZ STYLE -fully written piece-
​SHOAH by Andy LaVerne
shoah_andy_laverne.pdf
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PASSED: SAM POST. Humidity
humidity.pdf
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JURY PIECES: ENRIQUE GRANADOS.  Vals Noble 1 through 6.

GRANADOS valses poeticos
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GRANADOS valses poéticos
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LISTZ.  Consolation No. 3

ON RESERVE: LISTZ.  Consolation No. 4
listz_consolations_-ricordi-.pdf
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listz_grb_notes.pdf
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PASSED: McDOWELL to a Wild Rose
to_a_wild_rose.pdf
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JURY:  Jazz style:
ANYTHING GOES by George Gershwin
anything_goes.pdf
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Jazz style -chart-: ALL OF ME
all_of_me_-real_book-.pdf
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JURY PIECE: BACH from Well-Tempered Klavier Vol.1
Prelude #9  in E Major
bach_prelude_9_in_e_major.pdf
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PASSED: CHOPIN: Mazurka in A minor, Op. 67, No. 4 (Posthumous)
chopin_mazurkas_op_67_4.pdf
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PASSED: SERENITY

PASSED: AWAY
You can find audio files of these two pieces at this link. Scroll down once you get to the page.
Link to audio files

New version of the score
​with DMajor key signature

AWAY with D Major key signature
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Jury preparation:
Sign-up period:  April 17 to 24
Performance week: May 15 to 20

TECHNIQUE:
  • Equivalent to Levine level 6, but following the "Alfred Complete Book of Scales"
  • Key of C Major

REPERTORY:
  • J.S.BACH. Gavotte (from French Suite)
  • DEBUSSY. Réverie

PASSED: DEBUSSY.  Reverie  (JURY PIECE)
ATTENTION: A new marked copy of the piece below

DEBUSSY marking from lesson 4/25/2023
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DEBUSSY reverie with measure numbers
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Jury Fall 2023:

TECHNIQUE:
  • Equivalent to Levine level 6, but following the "Alfred Complete Book of Scales"
  • Key: Bb Major (with Hanon exercise).  If you want to play a different scale, just let the jury know before you start.

REPERTORY:
  • ONE movement from Bach's French Suite. Bourrée
  • Claire de Lune by Claude Debussy

Claire de Lune by Claude Debussy
debussy_claire_de_lune.pdf
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"Songs without Words" Op. 102 Nr.4 in G minor Mendelssohn
mendelssohn-sww_op102_nr.4.pdf
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French Suite in G Major by J.S. Bach
bach_french_suite_5_g_-bwv_816.pdf
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Holiday tunes played from a chart

Auld Lang Syne, Frosty, Jingle Bells, Let it Snow.
REDA'S HOLIDAY CHARTS
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