May 20, 2023

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

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

  1. Legato & Staccato Pentascales:

    1. Practice with the metronome: 100 = quarter note. Our goal this week

    2. Count OUT LOUD WITH THE METRONOME: “ONE, TWO, READY, GO” then play with the metronome.

  2. Broken Chords:

    1. Practice with metronome marking 50 = three notes for each tick. (We will work up to 60 for the test)

    2. Count OUT LOUD “ONE, TWO THREE” for each tick before you begin.

  3. Solid Chords:

    1. Practice with metronome 72 (one chord per two ticks)

    2. Count out loud before you begin.

đź’šNew Piece Next Week (L. B) - Dustin look at all the yellow highlights in the syllabus and Dustin will bring the options.

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

  1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece. Test on this next week.

  2. Practice keeping a steady beat at a slower tempo and then faster. (M.m. 120 and then work up to m.m. 184)

  3. Practice with and without music.

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

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

  2. Practice with and without music.

  3. Practice starting from any measure of the piece.

đź’šBoots, by Yvonne Adair (L. A)

  1. PRACTICE THE WHOLE PIECE AT M.M. 126 PER QUARTER NOTE (m.m. 144 is final tempo)

  2. Remember to pop your wrists up on EVERY staccato note.

  3. Practcie with and without music

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

    1. Fix all the pink pen.

đź’šFOUR STAR A

  1. Go online and practice the exercises for Prep A

💜“SIGHTREADING 00 46-61”

  1. Continue on to do one per day.

  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’šPreparatory Level

  1. Prep Level: Unit 6 “Scales”

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

  3. đź’śThe Lively Boy by Daniel Gottlob TĂĽrk (1750-1813)(L. A)