June 23, 2023

Level 1: Score of 84

Level 2:

Practice Journal

Write down in the comment section below every item you practice and for how long.

💚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.

   1. Hanon No. 2 (m.m. 60 per 8th note)

🖤Royal Conservatory of Music Syllabus in Newzik: Level 3

🖤Celebrate Theory, Level 3

1. NO ASSIGNMENT YET

💚Sight Reading

1. Level 2A & 2B in Newzik: Do 2 per day.

   1. Finish 2A and begin 2B

   2. Set a metronome to anywhere from 60-80 per quarter note.

   3. Don’t fix mistakes until you get to end, at which point you can fix them in your mind before you try again.

💛Basic Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer Nos. 89 and 90

1. Step One: say “1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, etc.” (this represents the subdivisions of the beat). Keep saying 1, 2, 3, and clap the rhythm of the notes.

2. Step Two: clap the beat and ta the rhythm.

3. 🎹😎JUST REMEMBER, WITH EITHER METHOD, TO ESTABLISH THE TRIPLET IN YOUR MIND BEFORE YOU BEGIN.

🖤Online Ear Training and Rhythm, Level 3 Ear Training

1. https://moodle.rcmusic.com/lms/my/ Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

2. Be sure to practice the RHYTHM and sight-reading

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🖤Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

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

1. One system at a time, perfect the articulation (LH sticky notes) hands alone, then together. Keep going back and forth, hands alone, then together, until you feel confident with the articulation hands together.

2. Record yourself playing one of the systems to make sure you have the correct articulation!

3. You don’t need to use the charts unless you want to.

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

1. FOLLOW the new practice charts and learn as much as you can!

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

1. 💚Etude in F Major, Op. 190, NMo. 27 by Köhler (L. 2, Etude)

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

3. 💚I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

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

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

6. 💚Periwinkle Twinkle by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. 2, B)

7. Celebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. 1, Etude)

8. Mist by Clifford Poole (1916-2003) (L. 1, B)

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

10. Swirling Leaves by Gordon A. McKinnon (b. 1952) (L. 1, C)

11. Waltz Op. 39 No. 13 by Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) (L. 1, B)

12. 💚Andante in G Minor by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) (L. 1, A)

13. 💚Minuet in F Major K. 2 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)(L. 1, A)

14. 💚German Dance in D Major Hob. IX:22, No. 2 by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (L. 1, A)