November 20, 2023

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”

  1. See the circled items in the above PDF

    1. Do all the Pentascales in staccato. These need a bit more work (pages 8-10 of the PDF)

    2. Memorize the “key signatures”

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

  1. Watch your pedaling video and practice with it every day.

  2. Measures 14 and 16: remember these are quarter notes. Don’t rush them.🥳

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

  1. practice with the audio in your pdf in Newzik

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

💚Note Speed:

  1. Level 3 (cards stay in the bench with a rubber band)

    1. Set the metronome to 60.

    2. Have someone help by throwing down the cards, ONE CARD PER BEAT (this is very fast!).

    3. Move on to the next card if you miss one.

    4. Do this at least 10 times before you next lesson.

💜FOUR STAR B

  1. Prepare Sets 7

🖤“SIGHTREADING 00 46-61”

💜Theory Level 1

  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.

  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)