Which assignment are daily? Get rid of list B. New piece? Michael sitting in on lessons? Create goals for each time this happens. Framework / guidelines.
2024-2025 (7th Grade / RCMCP Level 4)
List: Air in B-flat
List B: Diabelli
List C: An Old Romance
Etude 1: Etude in E Minor
Etude 2: Ballade
💜Basic Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer
Prepare nos. 111 to 114
Remember to clap the pulse for one measure before you begin.
Tidy up the beat’s subdivisions. They’re almost clear! :)
💜Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 4 (tests PDF)
Prepare Set 10
Chords - good
Intervals - working on P4 and P5
💜RCM Technical Requirements Level 4 in Newzik
PLEASE make your fingers round and firm. This helps fix your tidy attacks.
See the markings in the diagram for instructions.
💜Etude in E Minor op 65 no 42 by Carl Albert Loeschhorn (L. 4 Etude)
Start with Dustin next lesson
💚Ballade op 100 no 15 by JF Burgmüller (L. 4, Etude)
measures 24-31:
Listen to the audio in Newzik every day, then play it similar to the audio, following the markings in the music.
measures 52-56:
Follow the green markings.
“Even” boxed sections:
Close-loud hands together at m.m. 66 per 16th note
firm placement on the keys, keep wrist in movement but not shoulder and elbow.
Next week - possibly move to accent practice.
💚Air in B-flat Major HWV 471 by George Frederic Handel (L. 4, A)
Practice starting from three random spots each day.
Play through with with m.m. 104 per 8th note.
💚Diabelli, Op. 168 No. 1 (L. 4, B)
M.m. 42 per quarter note (use audio in Newzik for measures 18.5 to 25)
count 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & before you begin with the metronome.
If you make a mistake (off with metronome, incorrect notes / position) pause, go back 2 beats and count again before you start.
At this speed: focus is cantabile melody, and firm fingertips while being relaxed.
If you get stuck more than two times in the same section, reevaluate and take it hands alone / use other tools to fix the issue.
Up next!
increase tempo to 52
💚Grechaninov Op. 119 No. 2, An Old Romance (L. 4, C)
Set the metronome to 56 per 8th note. Don’t go any faster than this for the entire piece.
The goal is to have the melody be cantible and the LH be very soft.
🖤Celebrate Theory, Level 4, Unit 8
🖤Sight-reading: Czerny Op. 599. Left off at No. 64
BEFORE YOU BEGIN: FOCUS
Keep a pulse no matter what and no matter how slow.
Don’t fix mistakes in realtime.
Let notes go if needed and look ahead to the next landing point.
Paused:
Bartok: Mikrocosmos, No. 6
J.S. Bach, 6 Preludes, BWV 939-943, No. 4
Finished:
Bürgmuller, 25 Etudes, Op. 100
💚Clementi, Sonatina in G Major, Op. 36 No. 2: Movement III (L. 4, B)
💚March in D Major BWV Anh. 122 C. P. E. Bach (L. 4, A)
💚Etude in E Minor op 65 no 42 by Carl Albert Loeschhorn (L. 4 Etude)
💚Masquerade by Linda Niamath (L. 4, Etude)
💚Clowns by Kabalevsky (L. 3, C)
💚Arabesque op. 100 no. 2 by Johann Friedrich Burgmüller (1806-1874) (L. 3, Etude)
💚Left Alone by Joyce Grill (L. 3, Etude)
💚Sonatina in A Minor op. 94 no. 4 (L. 3, B)
💚💚Sonatina in C Major op. 36 no. 1 by Clementi (L. 3, B)
💚💜Musette in D Major BWV Anh. 126, attr. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (L. 3, A)
💚💚Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114 by Christian Petzold (1677-1733) (L. 3, A)
💚Minuet in G Minor, BWV Anh. 115 by Christian Petzold (1677-1733) (L. 3, A)
💚💜Impertinence, HWV 494 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) (L. 2, A)
💚💚I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)
💚💚Canon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (L. 2, C)
💚💚Etude in D Minor op. 82 No. 65 by Cornelius Gurlitt (L. 2, Etude
💚💚Mist by Clifford Poole (1916-2003) (L. 1, B)
💚💚Aria in F Major, BWV Anh. 131 by Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) (L. 1, A)
💚💚Waltz Op. 39 No. 13 by Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) (L. 1, B)
Level 3 or Practical RCM assessment: May 29, 2024
List A: Minuet in G Minor, BWV Anh. 115 by Christian Petzold (1677-1733)
List B C Major
List C: Clowns by Kabalevsky
Etude 1: Left Alone
Etude 2: Arabesque