January 7, 2025

1. RCM Registration: January 5th!

• List A: (learned 2)

• List B: Crocodile Tears by Christine Donkin (L. 2, B)

• List C:

• Etude:

1. Achievement in Posture Award: 💚💚💚💛💚💛💚

   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!

2. 🖤Etude in G Major, op. 166, no. 6 by Herni Bertini (1798-1876) (L. 2, Etude)

3. 💚Invention in C Major by Renée Christopher (b. 1955) L. 2, C)

   1. Learn hands alone with a focus on expression.

4. 💚“SIGHT-READING 2A

   1. Prepare pages 27-32

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

5. 💚“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.

6. 💜Theory Level 2

   1. Complete Unit 4 (pages 9-12)

   2. Bonus: complete page 13

7. 💜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!

8. 💜Interval Practice

   1. Go to your PDF in Newzik called Interval Practice

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

9. 💜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

10. 💚Ecossaise in G Major by LV Beethoven (L. 2, A)

    1. Keep practicing on expression. More wrist movement. Keep it slow.

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

    1. Fix fingering throughout.

    2. Fix the fingering in the LH, measures 9-10

    3. Please take three measures at a time, and practice RH, LH, then HT, three times in-a-row correctly. This doesn’t have to be fast.

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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