September 21, 2023

COMMENT SECTION:

EVERY TIME YOU PRACTICE, WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU PRACTICE AND FOR HOW LONG IN THE COMMENT SECTION BELOW!

RCM Level 1: (Spring 2024?)

💚 In Newzik: “TECHNIQUE Prep A and B” page 9

  1. See the circled items in the above PDF

    1. Watch the video inside the PDF about how to do staccato.

💚Ukrainian Folk Song op. 107, no. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 1, A)

  1. Practice measures 9-10 with the correct rhythm.

  2. Practice measures 11-12 making sure the RH and LH line up correctly.

  3. Learn the last four measures, two measures at a time:

    1. LH alone correctly NFRPE 3 times

    2. RH alone correctly NFRPE 3 times (remember the correct rhythm

🖤Bourrée in D Minor by Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) (L. 1, A)

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

🖤Note Speed:

  1. Dustin: make a video of Level 3 and 4 flash cards

💜FOUR STAR B

  1. Prepare Set 3

    1. We need extra playback practice. Dustin will make an audio recording in Newzik.

🖤“SIGHTREADING 00 46-61”

💜Theory Level 1

  1. Prep Level: Unit 1

Review once a week with your music. You don’t need to review all of them in ONE practice session - just one PER WEEK.

  1. 💚💚Sleigh Bells by Christine Donkin (b. 1976) (L. A)

  2. 💚💚What’s That Noise? B by Martha Mier (b. 1936) (L. A)

  3. 💚Boots, by Yvonne Adair (L. A)

  4. 💚To Fly Like and Eagle by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. B)

  5. 💚💚The Haunted Mouse by Nancy and Randall Faber (b. 1955; 1954)(L. A)

  6. 💚💜The Lively Boy by Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750-1813)(L. A)