January 11, 2024

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 G and C-major One-Octave Scale, RH

    1. Straight back

    2. Memorize the formula for the scale in whole and half steps.

  2. “No twisty twist twist” 😎

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

  1. see the markings in the music.

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

  1. NO FASTER THAN M.M. 40 PER QUARTER NOTE.

  2. HANDS ALONE ONLY.

  3. LEARN MEASURES 5-9

💜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 EXCEPT measures 1, 5, 9 and 13.

💜Note Speed:

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

    1. Say and play all 32 cards within 64 seconds.

💜FOUR STAR B

  1. Prepare Sets 8: Days 1-5 (one day per practcie session)

🖤“SIGHTREADING 00 46-61”

💛Theory Level 1

  1. Fix page 27. Read the instructions carefully. Remember draw the note as well.

💜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)