October 7, 2021

Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program Level 1

  • Take practical exam before Winter Break

    • List A

    • Etude: Drifting Clouds

Winter Recital 2022

  • February 6, 2022

🟢 - Everything was correct, great work!

🟡 - 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

  1. Technique

    1. 🟡🟢🟡Prep. Test next week on all material above.

      1. 🔴🟡CHORDS: Remember how to play these with root, first, second, root and back again.

        1. Keep your wrist steady and UP when you’re playing the chords.

        2. Fingering.

          1. RH. 1/3/5, 1/2/5, 1/3/5, 1/3/5

          2. LH, 5/3/1, 5/3/1, 5/2/1, 5/3/1

        3. Don’t forget to descend.

  2. Musicianship

    1. 🟣🟢🟣Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 2

      1. Prepare Set 02 01

        1. Test next week!

        2. Minor 3rd were difficult to identify

  3. Theory

    1. 🟣🟢🟣Celebrate Theory, Level 2

      1. Review pages 67-70 for a short quiz next time.

    2. ⚫️Celebrate Theory, Level 3

      1. NO ASSIGNMENT YET

  4. Repertoire

    1. Level 1: Etudes

    2. Level 1: List A

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

        1. See the the green markings in Newzik.

        2. Pass next week

        3. Practice with the recording in Newzik and be able to play with no pauses.

      2. 🟣🟢🟡Minuet in F Major K. 2 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

        1. 🟡Measures 7-8 - Practice the yellow box, on and off with the metronome.

        2. Set the metronome to m.m. 69 per quarter note. Think first, do it with the ticks, then turn it off and keep alternating this patterns.

    3. Level 1: List B

      1. 🟣Waltz Op. 39 No. 13 by Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)

        1. Look at the music and define sections to put in your NFRPE chart. Learn this in small chunks at a time, hands alone first, then together.

        2. Remember to repeat the new sections at least three times during the week.

      2. ⚫️A Little Piece Op. 6 No. 2 by Alexander Gedike (1877-1957)

      3. ⚫️Mist by Clifford Poole (1916-2003)

      4. ⚫️Red Satin Jazz by Martha Mier (b. 1936)

      5. ⚫️Dream Journey by Christine Donkin (b. 1976)

      6. ⚫️A Starry Night by Italo Taranta (b. 1928)

    4. Other Review Pieces

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

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

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

      4. 🟢🟣Calico Cat

        1. Review

      5. 🟡🟣🟣Freddie the Frog by Anne Crosby-Gaudet

        1. Try to come off the ends of the slurs.

      6. 🟣🟣🟣Distant Chimes

        1. Review

      7. 🟣🟣🟣Sneaky Sam

        1. Review

      8. 🟣🟣🟣A Song by Alexander Gedike

        1. Review

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Online Games

  1. RCM Online Ear Training and Rhythm

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

    2. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

      1. Login Info

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    3. Then click Ear Training Prep A

    4. Rhythm Easy