September 29, 2022 (1 of 5)

Level 1: Score of 84

Level 2: (no assessment in Fall 2022)

Improvisation warmup

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).

   1. One hand at a time only.

Hanon No. 1

1. Continue to practice hands together. Next week, we will start working with the metronome!

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.

Royal Conservatory of Music Syllabus in Newzik: Level 2

1. Prepare the highlighted items with the metronome

2. FIX FINGERING IN YOUR FORMULA PATTERNS

Celebrate Theory, Level 3

1. NO ASSIGNMENT YET

Basic Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer #53, 54, 55 and 56

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

   3. MAKE SURE that your “ta” is for the full value of the note.

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

1. (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

💜Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 2

1. Prepare Set 02 06

Impertinence by Handel (L. 2, A)

1. Start to learn with NFRPE, several measures at a time.

2. All quarter notes are detached

A Starry Night by Italo Taranta (b. 1928) (L. 1,

1. Work on pedaling:

   1. Remember to come down with your foot faster - as soon as you lift it.

   2. Careful that your LH 2nd beat is not rushed because you’re thinking about the pedal

Red Satin Jazz by Martha Mier (b. 1936)

Dream Journey by Christine Donkin (b. 1976)

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