April 29, 2025


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

  2. List A: (Ecossaise & Minuet)

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

  4. List C: Invention in C Major by Renée Christopher (b. 1955) L. 2, C

  5. Etude: Etude in G Major, op. 166, no. 6 by Henri Bertini (1798-1876) L. 2, Etude

💚“RCM Technical Requirements Level 02”

  1. 7 min a day: rotate through each item

  2. smooth movement

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

  1. Measures 9 to the end:

    1. Block the harmony (for every beat)

    2. Then focus on round fingers and clean pedal (catch all the bass notes in the pedal).

    3. Finally, round fingers, clean pedal, and no accents.

  2. Practice starting from random measures each day.

  3. Play with and without your music, three times each day.

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

  1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece - three times each practice session.

  2. Careful not to slide on the keys (you’re sometimes pulling toward you on the keys).

  3. Practice hands alone, then together, once each day.

  4. With and without music, three times each day

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

  1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece.

  2. once a day, play RH and LH alone, entire piece. Then hands together.

  3. With and without music, three times each day

💜“SIGHT-READING 2A

  1. Prepare at least pages 62-66

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

💜Interval & Playback Practice

  1. Go to your PDF in Newzik called Four Star Level 02 Tests

  2. See the audio titled “Playbacks Examples 1-6”

💜FOUR STAR Level 2

  1. 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. 😎

💛Minuet G Major by JS Bach (L. 2, A)

  1. All 8th notes: beware of rhythm monster!👹 See the blue circles.

  2. Practice starting from 3 different places each practice session.

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

  1. Practice with metronome: 63, 66, 69, 72 and 76

  2. Next week we will speed-build from 76

🖤Theory Level 2

  1. Complete Unit 6 pages 1-4

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