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 no. 115
Measures 1-4 - study in your mind first, then clap and ta.
Same thing for measures 5-8
Then put them together!
💚Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 4 (tests PDF)
Chords - good
Intervals - working on P4 and P5
💚RCM Technical Requirements Level 4 in Newzik (“overwhelming?”)
Set a timer for 5 min and go through as many as you can, efficiently. Keep track of where you are and be OK with stopping when the timer goes off! 😎
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)
Practice with m.m. 84. We can try something different next lesson if this is frustrating during practice this week.
🎹💚Ballade op 100 no 15 by JF Burgmüller (L. 4, Etude)
“Even” boxed sections:
Close-loud hands together at m.m. 66 per 16th note
Accent practice every other note. Alternate the accent.
Practice starting from any measure.
🎹💚Air in B-flat Major HWV 471 by George Frederic Handel (L. 4, A)
“fake smile” - pretend your obsessed with this piece because you LOVE it so much
Practice starting from any measures of the piece. At least three spots a day.
💚Diabelli, Op. 168 No. 1 (L. 4, B)
M.m. 50 per quarter note (use audio in Newzik for measures 18.5 to 25)
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