Spring Milestones:
January Recording Session for Competition
Level 3 and 4 RCM Theory
Level 3 or Practical RCM assessment: May 29, 2024
Expressive Focus in Performance
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.
💜RCM Technical Requirements Level 3 in Newzik
Broken Triads: close loud and then no faster than m.m. 50 per triplet.
💜Celebrate Theory, Level 3
Prepare Unit 8
💚Sight-reading: Burgmuller, 25 Etudes, Op. 100
Left off at No. 15 - continue to sight-read until you can make sense of the music.
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.
💜Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3 (tests PDF)
Listen to the “clap backs 1-4” recording and do the four examples each day. You’ll be done with these once you can do the 4th example with confidence.
💜Arabesque op. 100 no. 2 by Johann Friedrich Burgmüller (1806-1874) (L. 3, Etude)
See blue pen.
💚Clowns by Kabalevsky (L. 3, C)
See blue pen
💚March in D Major BWV Anh. 122 C. P. E. Bach (L. 4, A)
All quarter notes detached (we may connect some of them later).
Try to look for names and qualities of triads throughout the piece and ask yourself where they are in the scale of D Major.
Learn hands alone in small chunks, then together.
🖤Level 4 A possible pieces: Air in B-flat by Handel, and Allegretto in E Major by Hassler
🖤Czerny Op. 299 No. 1 in C Major
Speed-building:
One measure at a time, starting at m.m. 50 and going up in increments of 4. Goal is 88.
Complete at least mm. 9-12 and more if possible over the next week.
If you get to a speed that is not working after three tries, STOP, and ask yourself what technical work you need.
Use “accent practice” as needed: Accent every four 16th notes. Rotate them.
Review mm. 9 to the end with a very slow pace.
🖤Czerny Op. 299 No. 2 in C Major
Measures 5-8
get rid of any pauses
Speed-build
Do technical work as needed
🖤Hanon No. 4 (start with this assignment every day)
Rhythms:
Long, Long, Short, Short
Long, Short, Short, Long
Short, Short, Long, Long
Short, Long, Long, Short
LEGATO: m.m. 100 two notes per tic. Your goal here it to play with a smooth, bump-free hand position.
🖤Basic Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer No. 95 (slower)
Prepare nos. 108 and 110
Remember to clap the pulse for one measure before you begin.
Tidy up the beat’s subdivisions. They’re almost clear! :)
🖤Bartok Microkosmos:
Left off on no. 61
💚Left Alone by Joyce Grill (L. 3, Etude)
Continue to focus on tidy attacks for the chords
Gradually release the hand from the keyboard as well as your pedal. Match the mood of the piece in your ending.
💚Sonatina in A Minor op. 94 no. 4 (L. 3, B)
💜💚Sonatina in C Major op. 36 no. 1 by Clementi (L. 3, B)
💚Musette in D Major BWV Anh. 126, attr. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (L. 3, A)
Please focus on dynamics when you review.
💚Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114 by Christian Petzold (1677-1733) (L. 3, A)
💚Minuet in G Minor, BWV Anh. 115 by Christian Petzold (1677-1733) (L. 3, A)
💚Etude in F Major, Op. 190, NMo. 27 by Köhler (L. 2, Etude)
💚Impertinence, HWV 494 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) (L. 2, A)
💚I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)
💜💚Canon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (L. 2, C)
💚Etude in D Minor op. 82 No. 65 by Cornelius Gurlitt (L. 2, Etude)
💚Celebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. 1, Etude)
💚Mist by Clifford Poole (1916-2003) (L. 1, B)
💚Aria in F Major, BWV Anh. 131 by Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) (L. 1, A)
💚Waltz Op. 39 No. 13 by Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) (L. 1, B)
Spring Milestones
Record 1-2 pieces for competition submission.