October 21, 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. Lesson Progress: 🟢🟡🟢🟡

      2. CHORDS: Tips: Forward wrists on solid blocked. Repeat the top note of the broken pattern. Wrists up a bit higher during the broken chords.

      3. SCALES;

        1. Do all of the two-octaves scales as outlined above WITH the metronome.

  2. Musicianship

    1. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 2

      1. Prepare Set 02 02

        1. Assignment Progress: 🟡🟣🟢🟣

        2. As you prepare your sight reading assignments, do the rhythm in your head first, then look at the notes.

  3. Theory

    1. Celebrate Theory, Level 2

      1. Assignment Progress: 🟡🟣🟢🟣

      2. Quiz on Page 67.

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

        1. Assignment Progress: 🟢🟣🟢🟡

        2. Practice the entire piece with and without metronome.

    3. Level 1: List B

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

        1. Assignment Progress: 🟢🟣

        2. RH apply expression

        3. LH forward wrists and both quarter note thirds should be soft and short.

      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. Review Pieces

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

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

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

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

      5. 🟢Calico Cat

        1. Review

      6. 🟡Freddie the Frog by Anne Crosby-Gaudet

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

      7. 🟣Distant Chimes

        1. Review

      8. 🟣Sneaky Sam

        1. Review

      9. 🟣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

        1. info@gledhillartscollective.com

        2. dust2789

    3. Then click Ear Training Prep A

    4. Rhythm Easy