July 10, 2024 (60 min)

  1. 🎉💚“SIGHTREADING 00 62-95”

    1. Do one “Day” for each practice session.

    2. Continue on from page 2

    3. GO NO FASTER THAN M.M. 50 PER QUARTER NOTE

  2. 🎉💚“RCM Technical Requirements Level 02”

    1. Two octave scales: (follow the PDF in Newzik)

    2. Focus is: keeping wrists up and steady (don’t move it up and down).

      1. CLOSE LOUD

      2. STACCATO

      3. LEGATO

  1. đź’šTheory Level 1

    1. Prepare all of Unit 8 and remember you’ll have a quiz on any of the musical terms and symbols.

  2. 🎉💚Minuet was n G Major by JS Bach (L. 2, A)

    1. Fix green, red and blue pen.

    2. Learn to the very end of the piece, hands alone, then together, 1-2 measures at a time.

      1. Focus on Notes and Fingering first.

      2. Remember which notes are detached and which are legato.

      3. Play softly

      4. Go slowly

  3. 🎉💚FOUR STAR Level 1:

    1. PREPARE Sets 7 and 8

  4. đź’šEcossaise in G Major by LV Beethoven (L. 2, A)

    1. Using Theory, Level 1, Unit 8 questions as a guide, create your own set of questions for Ecossaise. Do this AFTER you’ve studied the piece - looking for things like time signature, key signature, intervals, dynamics, special terms, etc.

  5. đź–¤Farewell op. 98 no 4 by Aleksandr Grechaninov (L. 2, B)

  6. đź–¤Atacama Desert by Wynn-Anne Rossi (L. 2, B)

    1. Prepare Set 6

REVIEW

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

  2. đź’šCanon by Carlton Elliott

  3. đź’šEarly One Morning (Level 1, B)

  4. đź’šCelebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. 1, Etude)

  5. đź’šClear Mountain Sky Level 1, B

  6. đź’šđź’šSleigh Bells by Christine Donkin (b. 1976) (L. A)

  7. 💚💚What’s That Noise? B by Martha Mier (b. 1936) (L. A)

  8. đź’šđź’šBoots, by Yvonne Adair (L. A)

  9. đź’šđź’šTo Fly Like and Eagle by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. B)

  10. đź’śđź’šđź’šThe Haunted Mouse by Nancy and Randall Faber (b. 1955; 1954)(L. A)

  11. đź’šđź’šThe Lively Boy by Daniel Gottlob TĂĽrk (1750-1813)(L. A)

RCMCP: May 29, 2024, 3:00 pm

  1. List A: Bourrée in D Minor

  2. List B: Early One Morning

  3. List C: Canon

  4. Etude: Celebration