July 14, 2022

Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program Level 1

Winter Recital 2022

  • Level 1: 84


đź’š - Everything was correct, great work!

đź’› - on the right track but it needs more work

❤️ - needs lots of attention and work

🖤 - no assignment - don’t practice this item.

💜 - We didn’t get to this item

Remember to practice in the following order: ❤️💜💛💚


  1. Torture Sight-reading Video

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    1. Be able to SAY and PLAY at 2x’s speed.

    2. Must say and play before the letter appears on the screen.

  2. Improvisation warmup

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    1. Improvise with a pattern that you like and then repeat it (play it backward (retrograde), tonal inversion (upside down within the scale), real inversion (upside down with all the correct intervals), real transposition (taking the original motive and changing the tonic / starting note).

    2. One hand at a time only.

  3. REPERTOIRE

    1. New Repertoire Piece Next Lesson

    2. A Starry Night by Italo Taranta (b. 1928)

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      1. See pedal and blue pen

    3. đź–¤Red Satin Jazz by Martha Mier (b. 1936)

    4. đź–¤Dream Journey by Christine Donkin (b. 1976)

  4. TECHNIQUE

    1. Hanon No. 1

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      1. Learn the pattern, hands alone first, then together.

      2. Careful of your fingering. You don’t want to practice this with incorrect fingering because I’ll have you relearn it if so.

      3. Keep wrists up and fingers curved.

    2. Royal Conservatory of Music Syllabus in Newzik: Level 2

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      1. Prepare the highlighted items with the metronome

  5. MUSICIANSHIP

    1. Basic Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer #52

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      1. PREPARE mm. 1-8 at m.m. 60 per quarter

        1. Clap the QUARTER NOTES (imagine that your claps are the same thing as the tics of the metronome).

        2. Ta the rhythm

    2. Online Ear Training and Rhythm, Level 2 (Practice online 4 times per week)

      đź–¤ (start with Dustin next week)

      1. https://moodle.rcmusic.com/lms/my/ Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

      2. Be sure to practice the playback and clap backs

        1. Login Info

          1. info@gledhillartscollective.com

          2. dust2789

    3. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 2

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      1. Prepare Set 02 06

    4. Celebrate Theory, Level 3

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      1. NO ASSIGNMENT YET


  6. Review Pieces: ALWAYS USE YOUR MUSIC.

    1. Celebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. 1, Etude)

    2. Mist by Clifford Poole (1916-2003) (L. 1, B)

    3. Aria in F Major, BWV Anh. 131 by Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) (L. 1, A)

    4. Swirling Leaves by Gordon A. McKinnon (b. 1952) (L. 1, C)

    5. Waltz Op. 39 No. 13 by Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) (L. 1, B)

    6. 🟢Andante in G Minor by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) (L. 1, A)

    7. 🟢Minuet in F Major K. 2 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)(L. 1, A)

    8. 🟢German Dance in D Major Hob. IX:22, No. 2 by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (L. 1, A)

    9. 🟢Drifting Clouds by William Gillock (L. 1, Etude)

    10. 🟢Calico Cat

No assignments below this line

Online Games

  1. RCM Online Ear Training and Rhythm

    1. https://moodle.rcmusic.com/lms/my/

    2. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

      1. Login Info

        1. info@gledhillartscollective.com

        2. dust2789

    3. Then click Ear Training Prep A

    4. Rhythm Easy