December 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”

  1. Only do C-major One-Octave Scale, RH. Follow the practice video inside the PDF.

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

  1. See the new markings in Newzik

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

  1. Remember how slowly we did this at the lesson? Please follow all the arrows and you’ll play this piece so beautifully!

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

  1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece!

💜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 8: Days 1-5 (one day per practcie session)

🖤“SIGHTREADING 00 46-61”

💛Theory Level 1

  1. Unit 2: Fix all of the circles!

💚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)