December 9, 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

Remember to practice in the following order: 🔴🟣🟡🟢

  1. Royal Conservatory of Music Syllabus in Newzik

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    1. Set metronome to 60 for two notes per beat.

    2. RHYTHM: be able to play with a steady beat. Count 4 8th notes out loud before you begin.

    3. POSITION: please do NOT move wrist around or up and down. All finger ROUND and CURVED.

      1. Remember when you’re playing G minor melodic, the 6th scale degree is E-flat. So we raise it in melodic form to E-natural.

      2. Remember melodic scale: raise the 6th and 7th degrees and lower them on the way down.

  2. Basic Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer #50

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    1. PREPARE the first 4 measures

      1. Clap the QUARTER NOTES

      2. Ta the rhythm

      3. REMEMBER to clap two beats before you begin.

  3. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 2

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    1. Prepare Set 02 05

      1. RHYTHM: when you get to a quarter not (or other long notes), think of the shortest note value. Be patient with yourself here. This is the only part of music that gives you trouble and frustration. You’re doing so well, otherwise!

      2. Before you begin a Sightreading assignment:

        1. Identify the shortest note value so we can understand how fast to play the example. Don’t play too fast.

        2. Establish the beat (usually a quarter note gets one beat).

        3. Then do the rhythm in your head.

        4. Go slower

        5. Look at ALL the notes. No just one hand. :)

  4. Celebrate Theory, Level 3

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    1. NO ASSIGNMENT YET

  5. Level 1: Etudes

  6. Level 1: List A

  7. Level 1: List B

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

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      1. See all the red markings in your music. Pass off next week! New piece!

    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)

  8. Review Pieces: ALWAYS USE YOUR MUSIC.

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

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

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

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

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

    6. 🟢Calico Cat

      1. Review

    7. 🟢Freddie the Frog by Anne Crosby-Gaudet

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

    8. 🟢Distant Chimes

      1. Review

    9. 🟢Sneaky Sam

      1. Review

    10. 🟢A Song by Alexander Gedike

      1. Review

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  1. RCM Online Ear Training and Rhythm

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

    2. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

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    3. Then click Ear Training Prep A

    4. Rhythm Easy