October 15, 2024

November/December 2024 Session

Registration Deadline October 16, 2024

Practical Examinations November 30 - December 12, 2024

2024-2025 (7th Grade / RCMCP Level 4)

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

1. Prepare Set 1

💚RCM Technical Requirements Level 4 in Newzik

1. Chords: Start with solid and careful with broken that your 5th fingers don’t get stuck inside the black keys.

2. Arpeggios: remember to lead with your wrists. It’s ok to let go of the notes for now.

   1. No need to use metronome this week for arpeggios.

3. For each item:

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

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

   3. SPEED-BUILD to m.m. 92

      1. Start at m.m. 76, 84, 88, then 92.

💜Celebrate Theory, Level 4, Unit 6

1. Prepare Finish the unit

💚Sight-reading: Czerny Op. 599. Left off at No. 37

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

   2. J.S. Bach, 6 Preludes, BWV 939-943, No. 4

3. Finished:

   1. Bürgmuller, 25 Etudes, Op. 100

💜Clementi, Sonatina in G Major, Op. 36 No. 2: Movement III

1. LH softer when it’s the accompaniment.

2. See red and blue pen.

3. Practice the broken octave section in the LH by letting go of the notes and feeling a point of axis in the middle.

4. Take 4 measure chunks and start to perfect with NFPER

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

1. Practice with m.m. 100 per quarter note.

   1. Once with metronome

   2. Once without metronome.

   3. 🎹October 27th Group Class

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

1. Pedaling: careful not to catch the last note of beats two and four in the pedal.

2. 🎹October 27th Group Class

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

1. Add pedal!

2. 🎹October 27th Group Class

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

1. Middle section (starting m. 30).

   1. Work for “shaping” in the RH

   2. LH work for consistent texture - both chords debated, soft, and tidy attacks.

🖤Diabelli, Op. 168 No. 1

🖤Air in B-flat Major HWV 471 by George Frideric Handel (L. 4, A)

🖤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.

🖤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