January 13, 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. On hold until after Feb 6th 2022

  4. Celebrate Theory, Level 3

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    1. NO ASSIGNMENT YET

  5. REPERTOIRE

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

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      1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece.

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

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      1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece.

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

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      1. Review once a week with the music and metronome or audio

      2. Practice starting from any measure of the piece.

    4. (🎶)Mist by Clifford Poole (1916-2003)

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      1. Keep a high wrist and learn to the end for next lesson.

      2. RH: whenever there’s a long phrase / slur: keep legato (don’t leave the keys if possible) until the end of the slur.

      3. PRACTICE LEFT HAND ALONE: measures 1-8, three times each practice session.

      4. PRACTICE MEASURES 15-16: three times correctly each practice session with a forward wrist on the long notes.

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

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

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

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

  6. 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. 🟢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