March 16, 2023

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

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

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

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

  3. NEW! Practice each item STACCATO

đź’śGiraffe by Teresa RICHERT (b. 1964) (L. A)

  1. Start next

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

  1. Practice with m.m. 96 per quarter note (final goal is m.m. 108).

đź–¤Smooth and Crunchy by Elisa Milne (b. 1967) (L. A)

đź’šTo Fly Like and Eagle by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. B)

  1. Learn measures 5-8, hands alone first, say the names of the notes out loud, then hands together.

  2. Remember that a dotted quarter note get 1 1/2 beats. (3 8th notes)

đź–¤Angelfish by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (Non-RCM)

đź’śBoots, 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.

đź’šFOUR STAR A

  1. Go online and practice the exercises for Prep A

💚“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

đź’śPreparatory 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. đź’šSleigh Bells by Christine Donkin (b. 1976) (L. A)

  2. đź’śThe Haunted Mouse by Nancy and Randall Faber (b. 1955; 1954)(L. A)

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