February 23, 2023 (3 of ?)

🖤 = assignment is on hold. Don’t practice.

💚Go to Newzik: RCM Piano Syllabus under “Technical Tests” (p. 9 of the PDF)

1. See your new video for Close Loud pentascales

2. Practice each item CLOSE LOUD in each hand at m.m. 60 (two ticks for each note)

3. Then Practice each item LEGATO at m.m. 100 per note

4. NEW! Practice each item STACCATO

🖤Giraffe by Teresa RICHERT (b. 1964) (L. A)

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

1. See all the markings in your music.

2. Practice with m.m. 76 per quarter note (final goal is m.m. 108).

3. Fix the last notes at the end. what’s the correct register?

🖤Smooth and Crunchy by Elisa Milne (b. 1967) (L. A)

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

1. Study the patterns.

2. What is an “interval?” = the distance between two notes.

3. We can have “harmonic” intervals (played together) and “melodic” intervals (played separately).

4. Practice the colored measures BLOCKED. Find your new position using “ninja hands.”

🖤Angelfish by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (Non-RCM)

💚Boots, by Yvonne Adair (L. A)

1. PRACTICE THE WHOLE PIECE AT M.M. 96 PER QUARTER NOTE.

2. We will gradually speed build to the final tempo.

💜FOUR STAR A

1. Final test with Dustin next week.

   1. Remember NOT to do this all in one day. You should do ONE day per practice session.

💚“SIGHTREADING 00 46-61”

1. Finish the unit.

2. Remember to keep good hand position! Keep fingers curved.

   1. Remember forward wrists on long notes.

   2. Sit straight and tall

   3. Keep your wrists ABOVE THE WHITE keys

💜Preparatory Level

1. Prep Level: Unit 5 “Rhythm”

   1. Complete the entire unit!

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

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

3. The Lively Boy by Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750-1813)(L. A)

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