The Chronicles of a Piano Teacher
Today Khloe is going to learn Allegro by Thomas Attwood. This piece is her first, out of four pieces that are required for her to take ABRSM Grade 2 exam. Why did she choose this piece? She likes it! Even though her fingers weren't accustomed to the arpeggios in the piece. I solved this problem by adding arpeggios to her daily warm-up and asking her to play the arpeggios repeatedly during lessons. The objective for today's lesson was to play the first system with both hands. Her target was to be able to coordinate both hands while playing a simple melody over those athletic arpeggios on the left. After warming up with scales, I asked her to play the arpeggios in the left hand with a slow tempo several times. Khloe has struggled with these arpeggios in previous lessons until today; it felt good to hear her executing the arpeggios quite smoothly. However, she played 'F' sharp instead of 'G' for the second beamed eight notes. To inject m...