January 20, 2022

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. Practice with the metronome. You tend to speed up in section 2.

    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.

      2. Fix all the purple markings

      3. EVERY DAY, EACH SYSTEM, start your practice with hands alone with metronome, then hands together.

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

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      1. Fix all the purple pen

      2. Practice starting from any measure of the piece.

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

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      1. EXPRESSION PRACTICE: (4 measures at a time)

        1. No faster than m.m. 69

        2. Make sure to do ALL the expressive markings

        3. 3 times correctly for each 4 measure chunk.

      2. NEXT WEEK: Rhythm and Position Practice

      3. Practice starting from any measure of the piece.

    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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  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