December 17, 2024

1. RCM Registration: January 5th!

2. POSTURE TRACKER: 💚💚💚💛💚💛💚

   1. 💚 Dustin didn’t ask for good posture, ONCE!

   2. 💛 Dustin asked for good posture one to three times.

   3. ❤️ Dustin asked for good posture four or more times!

   4. After 5 greens, you will receive a REWARD!

3. 💚“SIGHT-READING 2A

   1. Prepare pages 27-32

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

4. 💚“RCM Technical Requirements Level 02”

   1. See the highlights

   2. Make sure to look at fingering.

   3. Three times correctly each item.

   4. Please play with a smooth wrist and smooth sound.

5. 💜Theory Level 2

   1. Complete Unit 4 (pages 9-12)

   2. Bonus: complete page 13

6. 💚Minuet G Major by JS Bach (L. 2, A)

   1. Expression: overall this should softer (make sure not to play too loudly) and quarter notes should be treated like 8th notes—not too short!

   2. Practice starting from any measure of the piece. 3 times per week. Ask Siri to choose a number between 1-24

   3. Practice with m.m. 76

   4. Review Status!

7. 💚Interval Practice

   1. Go to your PDF in Newzik called Interval Practice

   2. Continue to practice major and minor 3rd and perfect 5th.

8. 💚FOUR STAR Level 2

   1. PREPARE: Set 8

   2. Sight-reading

      1. NEVER start over in the middle of the exercise.

      2. Don’t play faster than m.m. 32 per quarter note. You can turn the metronome on to hear the beat then turn it off.

      3. Look at the rhythm and do it abstractly in your head. NOT fast.

      4. Then look at the intervals, key signature, etc.

      5. If you make a mistake, CONTINUE and pretend it didn’t happen. 😎

   3. Intervals:

      1. Maj 3, Min 3, Per 5

   4. Chords:

      1. Maj, Min

9. 💜Ecossaise in G Major by LV Beethoven (L. 2, A)

   1. First two systems: practice hands alone focusing on extreme expression. Then hands together with he same focus.

   2. Systems three and four: practice hands alone then together.

10. 💚Crocodile Tears by Christine Donkin (L. 2, B)

    1. Learn to the end!

    2. One measure at a time, hands alone, then together. SLOW SLOW SLOW enough that you can play your expression, notes, fingering, and position perfectly.

    3. Repeat each hand with and without the music.

    4. Remember to play SLOWLY

    5. How good can your expression be???

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. 💚Canon by Carlton Elliott

3. 💚Early One Morning (Level 1, B)

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

5. 💚💚Sleigh Bells by Christine Donkin (b. 1976) (L. A)

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

7. 💚💚Boots, by Yvonne Adair (L. A)

8. 💚💚To Fly Like and Eagle by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. B)

9. 💚💚💚The Haunted Mouse by Nancy and Randall Faber (b. 1955; 1954)(L. A)

1. 🖤Presto in 5/8 by Edwin McLean (L. 2, B)

2. 🖤Atacama Desert by Wynn-Anne Rossi (L. 2, B)

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

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