February 11, 2025

1. RCM Level 2: May 27, 2025, 4:20 pm

• 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. Memorize hands alone.

   2. on all staccato notes, pop wrists, not knuckles.

4. 💚“SIGHT-READING 2A

   1. Prepare at least pages 34 to 40

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

5. 💛“RCM Technical Requirements Level 02”

   1. See the highlights

   2. Please keep your position on the keyboard centered so that you are not moving forward and backward toward the ball board.

   3. Three times correctly each item.

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

   5. Make sure fingering in the chords are correct.

6. 💚Theory Level 2

   1. Complete Unit 5 pages 2 with Dustin

   2. Listen again to the Mozart Horn Concerto in E-flat (movement III)

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

   1. Please see the markings in Newzik. The goal will be to get rid of all markings by doing them correctly at the next lesson.

8. 💛Interval Practice

   1. Go to your PDF in Newzik called Interval Practice

   2. See the new audio titled 10 Examples 1/28/25.

   3. I give the answer approx. 5 seconds after the example is played.

9. 💚FOUR STAR Level 2

   1. PREPARE: Set 10

   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. Watch the video inside Newzik for position and expression instructions. Don’t mind the mistakes. 😎

    2. Practice starting from any measure.

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

    1. 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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