September 19, 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. Learn mm. 9-end hands alone

2. Practice mm. 1-8 hands together with no stops.

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

💚Czerny Op. 299 No. 2 in C Major

1. Hands alone mm. 1-8

🖤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

1. Practice the highlighted items.

🖤Celebrate Theory, Level 3

1. NO ASSIGNMENT YET

💚Sight Reading

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

   1. Continue on from page 76

   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. 94 (slower)

1. 🎹😎JUST REMEMBER, WITH EITHER METHOD, TO ESTABLISH the three-part beat 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

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🖤💜Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

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

1. Fix all markings in the music. Go a bit slower.

2. For the broken octave section: practice hanging out on the upper note, then quickly jumping (don’t prepare) to the lower one and back to the upper, with a light, quick, relaxed hand. Do the same thing with the lower note.

🖤Beethoven Sonatina

🖤Biehl Sonatina

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

1. No notes should be staccato in this piece.

2. Slow down

3. All quarter notes detached.

4. Pass next lesson if all above is correct

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

1. Massive expressive changes. Exaggerate everything, but still keep your cool. Remember not to slow down when you get softer. And don’t speed up when you get louder.

2. No faster than m.m. 54 per quarter note.

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)