May 27, 2025

💚Musette in D Major BWV Anh. 126 by J. S. Bach

  1. Two measures at a time, RH LH HT

  2. Most important: wrist movement

🖤Minuet in G Minor BWV Anh. 115 by Christian Petzold

🖤“RCM Technical Requirements Level 03”

  1. 15 min a day: rotate through each item

  2. practice this week: Once each item close-loud. Then up to tempo with smooth sound and even rhythm.

  3. Remember that close-loud is slow.

  4. Use metronome on and off woofer your final tempo markings.

💜“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”

  3. See video for Playback and Clapback.

💜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. 😎

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

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

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

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

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

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

  7. 💚Canon by Carlton Elliott

  8. 💚Early One Morning (Level 1, B)

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

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

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

  12. 💚💚Boots, by Yvonne Adair (L. A)

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

  14. 💚💚💚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