🔴 - This was not prepared or it needs a lot of attention and focus this week.
🔵 - We didn’t get to this item but we may look at it next week.
🟡 - On the right track but it needs detailed attention.
🟢 - On the right track, great work!
⚫️ - No assignment this week. Do not practice this item.
Lesson Assignments
Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program
Level 3
List A:
List B:
List C:
Etude
TECHNIQUE
HANON NO. 8 (Finger Independence Practice) (move through flat keys after C)
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C Major (please correct your mistakes if you make them while practicing Close Loud and Staccato).
Close Loud at m.m. 96, one note per tic
REMEMBER SHOULDERS RELAXED, CHEST OUT AND FORWARD, NECK RELAXED.
Then, Staccato at m.m. 104, two notes per tic
“CACTUS PRACTICE” Throw down the attack from above the keys, shorter sound, stronger, round fingers. Wrist use like a hinge.
Legato m.m. 84 per half note
think about rotating wrist more, between fingers 5-4 in the LH.
(HANON No. 10: Left off at m.m 104 speed building in C Major)
THEORY: Level 3
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Unit 2:
Prepare for next lesson
MUSICIANSHIP
⚫️Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests: Level 2 Set 10 (on hold)
Do 1 set a day.
Anusha - Don’t go faster than m.m. 60 per quarter note.
Squeaky - Take more time before you start.
DON’T TOUCH THE KEYS BEFORE YOU BEGIN
YOU MUST TAKE AT LEAST 30 SECONDS TO PREPARE FOR THIS IN YOUR MIND.
READING
Piano Adventures: Sightreading, Level 2B
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Before you begin, do the rhythm in your head (not thinking about the tones - JUST THE RHYTHM)
Move on from page 14. You’re doing well here!
Please prepare silently in your mind for at LEAST 30 seconds before you begin any sightreading exercise.
REPERTOIRE:
Choose a couple more pieces from your review list for the recital.
Etude in F Major Op. 777 No. 22 by Carl Czerny (1791-1857)(L. 3, Etude)
(Recital) Musette in D Major, BWV Anh. 126 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1865-1750)(L. 3, A)
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How did we think about problem areas during the lesson?
Ask yourself which chord the music outlines. At the end, for example, it’s A Major!
Do the same for the middle transition.
Memorize
Practice starting from any measure of the piece.
Do close loud on 16th notes.
Before you begin, get the beat in your mind. You usually rush the first two notes in the LH.
(Recital) Funny Puppy by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 3, C)
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Practice starting from 5 different measures each day - random.
Put music away.
Release the attack / wrists sooner. Still sounding a bit mushy in the LH. Shorter chords.
Do close loud / staccato practice on the 16th notes. RH 4th finger is weak because you’re starting with fingers in the air on the descending pattern in mm. 4, 9, 18 and 20. Start with a lower wrists, BUT keep fingers close to the keyboard.
(Recital) Atacama Desert by Wynn-Anne Rossi (b. 1956) (L. 2, B)
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Practice starting from 5 different measures each day - random.
Put music away.
How can you use your wrist to play quiet notes so there are not ghosts notes?
(Recital) German Dance in B-flat Major, Hob. IX:22, no. 5 by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (L. 2, A)
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LH is still not short enough.
RH needs to come off two-note slurs much shorter.
Repertoire Review List:
Rotate these each week. I will hear one of them each week and not in any particular order.
🟢Ecossaise in G Major WoO 23 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 2, A)
🟢Menuetto in C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) (L. 2, A)
🟢Allegretto in C Major by Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748-1798) (L. 2, A)
🟢Invention in C Major by Renée Christopher (L. 2, C)
🟢Clementi, Op. 36 No. 1, Movement 3 (L. 3, B)
🔴🔵Cornelius Gurlitt 1820-1901) Etude in D Minor, Op. 82 No. 65 (L. 2, Etude)
🔵Colored Windows by Edna Mae Burnam (L. 2, Etude)
🔵Feelin’ Good by Christopher Norton (L. 2, Etude)
🔵Etude in C Major Op 36 No. 22 by Alexander Gedike (L. 2, Etude)
🔵Burgmuller, The Limpid Stream, Op. 100 No. 7 (non-RCM)
🔵Burgmuller, Innocence. Op. 100 No. 5
🔵Funny Puppy by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 3, C)
🔵Ann Crosby-Gaudet, Periwinkle Twinkle (L. 2 B)