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

2. Hands together SLOWLY to the end.

3. Speed-build mm. 1-2

💚Czerny Op. 299 No. 2 in C Major

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

2. Review hands alone mm. 1-8

3. Learn hands alone mm. 9 to the End.

🖤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. Tidy attacks with a smooth position and wrist. Less head-banging with the pulse 😜

2. Chords: when you play SOLID chords, get in cat-claw-scratch position and play the chord with a low wrist / curved fingers. Immediately pop up but don’t over-rotate your wrist.

🖤Celebrate Theory, Level 3

1. NO ASSIGNMENT YET

💚Bartok Microkosmos:

1. Start at No. 22

💚Basic Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer No. 95 (slower)

1. 🎹😎JUST REMEMBER, WITH EITHER METHOD, TO ESTABLISH the three-part beat in YOUR MIND BEFORE YOU BEGIN

2. Go slowly

🖤💜Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

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

1. Watch the video every practice session (practice with it) to get the smooth-pop wrists we talked about at you last lesson.

2. In m. Don’t think of the broken octaves as separate notes - think of them as one movement

3. See all the pen in the PDF

4. When you get to the recapitulation, apply all the markings in the exposition.

🖤Beethoven Sonatina

💚Sonatina in A Minor op. 94 no. 4 (L. 3, B)

1. Fix pen and learn to the end.

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

1. Speed-build to m.m. 84 = quarter note.

2. Remember to play slowly every day, then speed-build.

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

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

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

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

5. 💚I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)