Normal Practice Time:
Around 7:00-ish. After dinner.
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”
See the circled items in the above PDF
Do all the Pentascales in staccato. These need a bit more work (pages 8-10 of the PDF)
Memorize the “key signatures”
💜Celebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. 1, Etude)
Fix all the red pen in Newzik
Finish learning the rest of the piece! We already did this at your lesson, so you should be confident that you can do it on your own!
💛Ukrainian Folk Song op. 107, no. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 1, A)
practice with the audio in your pdf in Newzik
🖤Bourrée in D Minor by Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) (L. 1, A)
💜💜Note Speed:
Level 3 (cards stay in the bench with a rubber band)
Have a practice partner help you:
Set the metronome to 60 in Newzik (the beat should say 2)
Pace a book on the music stand to support the cards
When you’re ready, have your practice partner place one card at a time on the music stand, every two ticks.
Say and play the name of the card out loud with the correct hand.
If you miss a card, move forward to the next card.
Maximum 2 cards missed at the test.
💚FOUR STAR B
Prepare Sets 7
🖤“SIGHTREADING 00 46-61”
💚Theory Level 1
Unit 2: pages 12-18
💚Review once a week with your music. You don’t need to review all of them in ONE practice session - just one PER WEEK.
💚💚Sleigh Bells by Christine Donkin (b. 1976) (L. A)
💚💚What’s That Noise? B by Martha Mier (b. 1936) (L. A)
💚💜Boots, by Yvonne Adair (L. A)
💚💚To Fly Like and Eagle by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. B)
💚💚The Haunted Mouse by Nancy and Randall Faber (b. 1955; 1954)(L. A)
💚💚The Lively Boy by Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750-1813)(L. A)