December 10, 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 4 & 5

2. Chords - good

3. Intervals - good

💚RCM Technical Requirements Level 4 in Newzik

1. 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.

2. 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.

💚Sight-reading: Czerny Op. 599. Left off at No. 57

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 (L. 4, B)

1. LH softer throughout

2. Firm fingertips in RH

3. Listen specifically for smooth sound when you’re crossing over or under fingers.

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

1. RH first triads, think “poke” but not aggressive, and with a slight tilt in weight to the right in order sound the G’s

2. On LH’s entrance, approach the keyboard with motion. Don’t rest on the key first and then play.

   1. Pick up from minute 0:29 with Dustin next week.

💚Diabelli, Op. 168 No. 1

1. Seeing markings in the music. Please don’t play this fast at all!

2. Listen to the recording for the rolled chords issue.

3. Work on the LH position issue at the end by playing it slowly and experimenting with wrist movement.

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

1. Learn as much as you can, hands alone, hands together:

   1. With music, without, with, without, with

   2. Focus on firm fingertips and slightly less movement in the wrists.

   3. Remember all 8ths are detached, and most quarter notes too.

🖤Celebrate Theory, Level 4, Unit 8

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

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

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

3. 💚Masquerade by Linda Niamath (L. 4, Etude)

4. 💚Clowns by Kabalevsky (L. 3, C)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 💚💜I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

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

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

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

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

18. 💚💚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