September 1, 2023

Registration Opens September 7, 2022

Registration Deadline October 16, 2022

Practical Examinations November 26–December 8, 2022

Level 1: Score of 84

Level 2: Score of 96

Practice Journal

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

💚Czerny Op. 299 No. 1 in C Major

1. Practice the “1, 2, 3” exercise for each movement (measure), 3 times correctly (no more than 7 min)

2. High Loud: 1. Straight-up, 2, down-curved, 3. Relaxed. (no more than 3 min)

🖤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 2B in Newzik: Do 2 per day.

   1. Continue on from page 57

   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 No. 92-93 (slower)

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

2. Go slowly

🖤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

   1. Login Info

      1. info@gledhillartscollective.com

      2. dust2789

🖤Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

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

1. Using the NFRPE method, learn 2 ms. At a time as much as you can

🖤Beethoven Sonatina

🖤Biehl Sonatina

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

1. Play the trills slower and softer with a lower wrist on the approach.

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

1. Next week, work on expression with Dustin.

2. Keep practicing this at a medium tempo

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

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

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

4. 💚I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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