4-Minute Mastery Lesson Titles
Book 1: Skill Focus for Each Lesson
1.1 Getting started: Do, Re and the Fermatta
1.2 Introducing the dotted half note
1.3 Introducing Mi
1.4 Reinforcing Mi
1.5 Introducing Fa
1.6 Drilling Do-Fa, and introducing the whole note
1.7 Introducing 5/4 time
1.8 Introducing Sol
1.9 Introducing eighth notes; working with triads
1.10 Working with 3rds
1.11 Adding accents
1.12 Introducing G major; a variety of 3rds
1.13 Introducing 6/8 time; reinforcing 3rds
1.14 3rds & dotted quarter notes
1.15 Triad work
1.16 Varied rhythmic practice
1.17 Dotted quarter and eighth-note practice
1.18 Adding dynamics; introducing syncopation
1.19 Dynamics and Accents
1.20 Introducing 2/2 time and lower Ti
1.21 D major; reinforcing lower Ti; dynamic practice
1.22 Looking ahead; introducing the Hemiola
1.23 4/8 time; triad drill; dynamic expression
1.24 Reinforcing syncopation and ritardando
1.25 Triadic drill; more syncopation
1.26 Introducing staccato; eighth note and rest pattern practice
1.27 Introducing 4/2 time
1.28 Introducing the tie; reinforcing lower Ti
1.29 Introducing Allargando; tie reinforcement
1.30 Rhythm summary; 6-note summary
Book 2: Skill Focus for Each Lesson
2.1 Reinforcing Ti
2.2 6/8 and 4/8. Introducing LA; try singing note names
2.3 Practice looking ahead !
2.4 Working with triads
2.5 Syncopation; 5/4 time; introducing pianissimo
2.6 Introducing staccato; Dotted quarter and eighth note pattern practice
2.7 Introducing skips of a 4th; 4/2 time; rallentando
2.8 Reinforcing the tie; drilling 4ths
2.9 Pianissimo; poco a poco; Fa-La; Larghetto
2.10 5/4; Non-triad tones
2.11 Key of Ab; triad drill; syncopated duets; gentile
2.12 Review of accents and staccatos; Do,La,Sol; subito
2.13 Niente; triad work
2.14 6/4 time; lower notes; 8th note rest practice; piu
2.15 Introducing skips of a 5th
2.16 Introducing 16th notes
2.17 16th note progress; 4ths and 5ths
2.18 16th patterns; 4ths and 5ths up and down
2.19 Unusual 4ths and 5ths; 16th note drill
2.20 Working with rests; interval drill
2.21 “Hearing” rests as “time”; introducing Bb major
2.22 Harmonic interest; drill on rests
2.23 Introducing skips of a 6th
2.24 A new 16th note rhythm; 4ths, 5ths, 6ths
2.25 Intervals and rhythms
2.26 Introducing portamento; the slur; dotted 8th/16th
2.27 Drilling the dot
2.28 Reversing the dot; 16th note rests; no home triad
2.29 Beats per minute; dotted drill
2.30 Review of 2.25-2.29
Book 3: Skill Focus for Each Lesson
3.1 16th note rhythm drill; 5ths and 6ths
3.2 6/8 time work; cut time; repeated notes; tacet
3.3 Pre-hearing intervals before you sing them
3.4 Reviewing 4ths, 5ths and 6ths; syncopation
3.5 Time for Triplets!
3.6 Above and below Do; triplet drill – triplets / 8ths
3.7 16th ties; triplets; range expansion
3.8 E minor; Triplets and ties; triplet-note figures; simile
3.9 Less common 16th rhythms; 3 against 2; rhythmic drill
3.10 Longer notes and rests; introducing Si
3.11 Triad work; 16th note triplets; natural sign
3.12 Triad work; note locations
3.13 Introducing 7ths; review 3 against 2
3.14 Cross-rhythms; triplet figures; drilling 7ths
3.15 4 against 3; dotted rhythms and triplets
3.16 A major; 16th note rests
3.17 Rhythmic precision – 16ths and triplets
3.18 3/2 time; 12/8 time; wider skips
3.19 Counting rests; dotted rests
3.20 Introducing octaves, up and down; 3/2 drill
3.21 16th note triplets; rests; syncopation; interval drill; incomplete bar lines
3.22 Rhythmic focus: faster tempos, looking ahead
3.23 Compound meter – 5’s; interval drill
3.24 D minor; repeated notes and rhythms – visual accuity
3.25 Skips of a 9th, up and down; quarter note triplet drill
3.26 Review of accidentals; 3/8, 6/8
3.27 Drilling accidentals; F minor; rhythmic speed
3.28 Lots of syncopation, accidentals, and skips; Circa
3.29 Cut time; fifths, sixths, sevenths drill; Picardy third
3.30 All together now!