Need to come up with a stress free schedule, sorry to bore! Options

[MusicalNitWit]

So definite practice days when we can do everything are:

Saturday and Sunday

Defintite no practice days:

Monday and Tuesday

All other days ranging from 20-40mins but lets assume 20 mins so what should I focus on in the three 20 min slots.

All two octaves

13 scales - 80% there from memory and speed
2 chromatics
3 dominants
2 diminshed
arepeggios
sight-reading
aural - is once a week enough, so at the weekend?

3 pieces of which one is purfect, two just has one problem area and three - eek!

So I need the most efficient practice and one that will help him to remember his scales, especially the chroms, dims, arps etc.

[sbhoa]

I'd group scales in related pairs as far as possible to help in learning which share the same key signature.
you make a good point about order Flossie but I tried for some time to follow this advice in the run up to my clarinet exam and it just didn't work for me. I needed a more ordered approach.

[MusicalNitWit]

I'd group scales in related pairs as far as possible to help in learning which share the same key signature.
you make a good point about order Flossie but I tried for some time to follow this advice in the run up to my clarinet exam and it just didn't work for me. I needed a more ordered approach.

Er... MNW doesn't know what that means, does that mean relative minors so Db major and Bb minor for example? What about the ones that don't have a relative as a requirement, where should they be grouped?

And being totally thick, can someone write out a timetable for me and post it on this thread as I'm going round in circles with all this excellent advice...and, ahem, gin...

Tonedaftmum, was that should of had ferrets instead of children? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[tonedeafmum]

Tonedaftmum, was that should of had ferrets instead of children? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

We'd picked out names and everything - but, fool that I was, I insisted on children instead....
Sigh ....

Practice sounds like it's going ok so far - well done to you both.

At the moment Daughter and I are having a crash course in identifying the character, style and period of music courtesy of the future Mr Tonedeaf (Paul Harris (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) )

This is B1's translation for 10 year olds -
Baroque = fiddly bits - like Brighton Pavillion
Classical = normal - like Grandma's radio
Romantic = sad - like people in the rain
Modern (20th/21st Century) = none of the above.

It's only now I regret that poor B1 has grown up listening mostly to show tunes, worship music, and local radio pop - none of these styles figure highly on the ABRSM syllabus.

If you've time in your busy schedule - pop Classic FM or similar on in the background - and get him talking about it.