December 19, 2023

Spring Milestones:

1. January Recording Session for Competition

2. Level 3 and 4 RCM Theory

3. Level 3 or 4 Practical RCM assessment

RCMCP Scores:

Level 1: Score of 84

Level 2: Score of 96

Level 3:

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. Speed-building:

   1. One measure at a time, starting at m.m. 50 and going up in increments of 4. Goal is 88.

   2. Complete at least mm. 9-12 and more if possible over the next week.

   3. If you get to a speed that is not working after three tries, STOP, and ask yourself what technical work you need.

      1. Use “accent practice” as needed: Accent every four 16th notes. Rotate them.

2. Review mm. 9 to the end with a very slow pace.

💚Czerny Op. 299 No. 2 in C Major

1. Measures 5-8

   1. get rid of any pauses

   2. Speed-build

   3. Do technical work as needed

🖤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. 💛Focus on tidy attacks.

2. See the yellow highlights.

3. Why do we play with fingers 2, 3, and 4 (sometimes) in the black key area?

   1. ANSWER: to facilitate the playing of your thumb and fifth fingers on the black keys, without compromising your wrist position (no twisting).

💚Celebrate Theory, Level 3

1. Fix Unit 2

2. Complete Unit 3

💜Burgmuller, 25 Etudes, Op. 100

1. Left off at No. 3

2. Sight-reading daily: at least 8 measures at a time, per session. These will be harder than your normal sight-reading material. So please study closely, look at chords and try to connect the dots with your theory assignments. Repeat the 8 measures until you can play it without too many errors.

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

1. Prepare no 105 - 107

💚Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

1. Prepare Set 5

🖤Bartok Microkosmos:

1. Left off on no. 61

💜Left Alone by Joyce Grill (L. 3, Etude)

1. Fix all pen and remember the melody should have a “pleading” quality to it.

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

1. “technical work” means: ask yourself what kind of technical tools you have that are needed for any particular section.

2. Practice starting from any measure of the piece.

💚Clowns by Kabalevsky (L. 3, C)

1. Mm. 5-8 - when the RH has staccato notes one after the other, play them from above the key. Don’t prepare over the key first then play.

2. RH fingering in m. 16

3. Fix red pen. Start learning and memorizing hands together, one-two measures at a time. Do as much as you can.

🖤Beethoven Sonatina

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

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

   1. Please focus on dynamics when you review.

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

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

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

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

7. 💚I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spring Milestones

1. Record 1-2 pieces for competition submission.