July 6, 2023

COMMENT SECTION:

EVERY TIME YOU PRACTICE, WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU PRACTICE AND FOR HOW LONG IN THE COMMENT SECTION BELOW!

🖤Level B: RCM Piano Syllabus under “Technical Tests” (p. 9 of the PDF)

  1. GOAL: Fix F Major (remember the flat)

    1. See the green markings in Newzik, Prep. B.

    2. Be able to play at the indicated speed.

  2. STRATEGY: (a plan to achieve our goal)

    1. Close Loud

    2. Staccato

    3. Legato Playing

  3. TACTICTS/ TOOLS:

    1. Close Loud: 2 Times Each Item

      1. Attack the key FROM the surface the key with a round finger and forward wrist.

      2. Stop pushing into the keys IMMEDIATELY after the attack (after you play the note). Relax.

    2. Staccato: 2 Times Each Item

      1. Tap the keys from ABOVE the keyboard with a loose wrist and round finger.

    3. Legato: 2 Times Each Item

      1. Do as described int he PDF

💚Ukrainian Folk Song op. 107, no. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 1, A)

  1. USE YOUR VIDEO AND PRACTICE CHART

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

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

💚FOUR STAR B

  1. Prepare Review Set 1

🖤“SIGHTREADING 00 46-61”

💜Preparatory Level

  1. Prep Level: Unit 7 “Chords

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

  3. 💚Boots, by Yvonne Adair (L. A)

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

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

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