February 1, 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. Do G and C-major One-Octave Scale, RH & LH

  2. Do A minor, RH and LH

  3. DO C MAJOR CONTRARY MOTION!

    1. Straight back

    2. Curved 1st knuckles

    3. Memorize the formula for minor.

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

  1. PRACTICE STARTING FROM ANY MEASURE OF THE PIECE.

  2. PRACTICE LOOKING AHEAD WHEN YOU PLAY.

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

  1. Practice mm. 1-4 - HANDS ALONE, 3 TIMES CORRECTLY, EACH DAY

  2. For measures 9-12 - RIGHT HAND ONLY

    1. Set metronome to m.m. 50 per quarter note.

    2. Focus on wrist movements and gradually increase your speed by only a few numbers at a time.

    3. Your final goal for this week is m.m. 104 per quarter note.

  3. For measures 9-12 - LEFT HAND ONLY

    1. Play with the RH audio in Newzik titled “RH mm. 9-12”

💜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 Set 9. Test next week

🖤“SIGHTREADING 00 46-61”

💚Theory Level 1 Unit 3

  1. Complete pages 6-8

💚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)