June 17, 2024

RCMCP Scores:

Level 1: Score of 84

Level 2: Score of 96

Level 3: Score of 92

💚RCM Technical Requirements Level 4 in Newzik

1. For each item:

   1. Make sure fingers are curved and wrist doesn’t drop on thumb.

   2. CLOSE LOUD @ m.m. 66 per tick (correct mistakes as you go)

   3. STACCATO @ m.m. 66 two notes per tick (tap the notes using a supple wrist)

   4. LEGATO @ m.m. 66 two notes per tick (focus is perfect form)

   5. SPEED-BUILD to m.m. 92

2. Time yourself to see how long it takes.

💛Celebrate Theory, Level 4, Unit 3

1. Study page 8 and fix pages 9-10

💚Sight-reading: J.S. Bach, 6 Preludes, BWV 939-943

1. BEFORE YOU BEGIN: FOCUS

   1. Keep a pulse no matter what and no matter how slow.

   2. Don’t fix mistakes in realtime.

   3. Let notes go if needed and look ahead to the next landing point.

2. Paused:

   1. Bartok: Mikrocosmos, No. 61

3. Finished:

   1. Bürgmuller, 25 Etudes, Op. 100

💚March in D Major BWV Anh. 122 C. P. E. Bach (L. 4, A)

1. Fix all purple pen and listen to the audio in Newzik to double check your expressive work.

2. Work the green sections hands alone and together for more accuracy.

💚Etude in E Minor op 65 no 42 by Carl Albert Loeschhorn (L. 4 Etude)

1. Learn by blocking LH chords and identify as many as you can.

2. RH second finger round.

3. Small chunks, following the expression, one measure at a time. Memorize as you go along.

🖤Masquerade by Linda Niamath (L. 4, Etude)

🖤Ballade op 100 no 15 by JF Burgmüller (L. 4, Etude)

🖤The Avalanche op 45 no 2 by Stephen Heller (L. 4, Etude)

🖤Hanon No. 4 (start with this assignment every day)

1. Rhythms:

   1. Long, Long, Short, Short

   2. Long, Short, Short, Long

   3. Short, Short, Long, Long

   4. Short, Long, Long, Short

2. LEGATO: m.m. 100 two notes per tic. Your goal here it to play with a smooth, bump-free hand position.

🖤Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 4 (tests PDF)

1. Resume in July

🖤Basic Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer No. 95 (slower)

1. Prepare nos. 108 and 110

2. Remember to clap the pulse for one measure before you begin.

3. Tidy up the beat’s subdivisions. They’re almost clear! :)

1. 💚Clowns by Kabalevsky (L. 3, C)

2. 💚Arabesque op. 100 no. 2 by Johann Friedrich Burgmüller (1806-1874) (L. 3, Etude)

3. 💚Left Alone by Joyce Grill (L. 3, Etude)

4. 💚Sonatina in A Minor op. 94 no. 4 (L. 3, B)

5. 💚💚Sonatina in C Major op. 36 no. 1 by Clementi (L. 3, B)

6. 💚Musette in D Major BWV Anh. 126, attr. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (L. 3, A)

7. 💚Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114 by Christian Petzold (1677-1733) (L. 3, A)

8. 💚Minuet in G Minor, BWV Anh. 115 by Christian Petzold (1677-1733) (L. 3, A)

9. 💚Etude in F Major, Op. 190, NMo. 27 by Köhler (L. 2, Etude)

10. 💚Impertinence, HWV 494 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) (L. 2, A)

11. 💚I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

12. 💜💚Canon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (L. 2, C)

13. 💚Etude in D Minor op. 82 No. 65 by Cornelius Gurlitt (L. 2, Etude)

14. 💚Celebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. 1, Etude)

15. 💚Mist by Clifford Poole (1916-2003) (L. 1, B)

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

17. 💚Waltz Op. 39 No. 13 by Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) (L. 1, B)

Level 3 or Practical RCM assessment: May 29, 2024

1. List A: Minuet in G Minor, BWV Anh. 115 by Christian Petzold (1677-1733)

2. List B C Major

3. List C: Clowns by Kabalevsky

4. Etude 1: Left Alone

5. Etude 2: Arabesque