2026-2027 Events
October 17-18, 2026 — Group Classes
December 5-6, 2026 — Group Classes
January 24, 2027 — Performance Class & Guest Artist Workshop
February 27-28, 2027 — Group Classes
April 10-11, 2027 — Group Classes
May 22, 2027 — Student Final Recital
How to Practice
Use the Practice Guide below. It writes your practice down for you, no comments needed.
Tap the first assignment on your list.
The timer starts by itself. Read it and practice.
When you are finished, press Done. It saves your time and opens the next one.
Need to stop for a minute? Press Pause.
Lost? Press My Assignment List at the top to go back.
Log only what you actually did, on the day you did it. Five minutes is a real entry.
Something wrong with the guide? Open the video tool, record yourself explaining it, and press Send to Dustin. It emails me a link straight away.
Some assignments finish. Those carry a Done for the Week button. Press it when the job is done and the assignment comes off your list.
Need the metronome, a recorder or the Section-Work colors? They are in Practice Tools. Tap one and it opens inside your assignment. Tap Close to put it away.
Official tracking started Monday, October 19.
🟩 on track · 🟨 needs extra attention · 🟪 didn't get to it at the lesson · 🟥 priority · ⬛️ on hold, don't practice this one · 🟧 mine, not yours
[PRACTICE TOOLS]
Technique
1. 🟩 Technical Requirements for Piano, Level 6 (RCM), B major, D-flat major, B minor and C-sharp minor
THIS WEEK: B major and D-flat major, and B minor and C-sharp minor, harmonic and melodic.
2. 🟧 Scanning your new technique book
Mine. I ordered the Level 6 book to your house. It should arrive Thursday and I will scan it for you then.
Theory
3. 🟩 Celebrate Theory, Level 5, Unit 7 (RCM)
THIS WEEK: Prepare pages 74 to 77.
Musicianship
4. ⬛️ Basic Rhythmic Training, No. 115 (Starer)
On hold. Don't practice this one.
5. ⬛️ Sight-Reading: Czerny, Op. 599, from No. 64
On hold. Don't practice this one.
Repertoire
6. 🟩 Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775 (Bach), mm. 1-34
THIS WEEK: Measures 1 to 34. One round at m.m. 76, then a round at m.m. 92.
Keep two beats in mind on the right hand as you start the trill.
The trill is a little heavy on the right. Tilt your weight slightly to the left and listen for the clarity.
Soften the right hand trill. Better posture and more control of the position are what make the soft sound.
7. 🟩 Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775 (Bach), mm. 33-52
THIS WEEK: Measures 33 to 52. One round at m.m. 60, one at m.m. 76, then one at m.m. 92.
Hands alone, then hands together.
The work here is smoothing out the trill areas in the left hand.
If the left hand tires, that is tension. It is position and balance, and it takes longer to train than the right.
8. 🟩 L'Indifférente, from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (Rameau), mm. 5-8
THIS WEEK: Measures 5 to 8, with quiet trills.
Experiment with different trill speeds. They do not all have to be the same.
Uniform trills sound tidy but lose the expression. Vary them.
9. 🟩 L'Indifférente, from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (Rameau), mm. 17-25
THIS WEEK: Measures 17 to 25. Right, left, then together.
The trills are woven into the fabric. Less accent on them.
10. 🟩 L'Indifférente, from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (Rameau), mm. 25-36
THIS WEEK: Measures 25 to 36, hands alone and hands together, with every trill quiet.
Keep the trills inside the texture so none of them stick out.
Focus on the expression in the trills.
Try one, three, five on that chord, and one, four for the next.
11. ⬛️ Prelude, Op. 39 No. 19 (Kabalevsky)
On hold. Don't practice this one.
12. 🟧 List C pieces for you to choose from
Mine. I am bringing a set of Romantic List C options at around Level 7 for you to pick from.
Review List
Review these with your music. You don't need to get through all of them in one session.
RCM Level 5
Deux rigaudons, from Suite in E Minor, RCT 2, by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) (List A)
Fantasia in E-flat Major, TWV 33:35, 2nd Section, by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) (List A)
Sonatina in F Major, Anh. 5, No. 2, attr. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (List B)
Lyric Pieces, Book I, Op. 12, No. 2, Waltz, by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) (List C)
RCM Level 4
Air in B-flat Major, HWV 471, by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) (List A)
Sonatina in F Major, Op. 168, No. 1, I. Moderato cantabile, by Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) (List B)
Sonatina in G Major, Op. 36, No. 2, III. Allegro, by Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) (List B)
Etude in E Minor, Op. 65, No. 42, by Carl Albert Loeschhorn (1819-1905) (Etude)
Masquerade, by Linda Niamath (Etude)
RCM Level 3
Musette in D Major, BWV Anh. 126, Anonymous, from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (1725) (List A)
Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114, attr. Christian Petzold (1677-1733) (List A)
Minuet in G Minor, BWV Anh. 115, attr. Christian Petzold (1677-1733) (List A)
Sonatina in A Minor, Op. 94, No. 4, by Albert Biehl (List B)
Clowns, Op. 39, No. 20, from 24 Pieces for Children, by Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) (List C)
Arabesque, Op. 100, No. 2, by Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806-1874) (Etude)
RCM Level 2
Impertinence, HWV 494, by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) (List A)
Etude in D Minor, Op. 82, No. 65, by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901) (Etude)
Other
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