January 31, 2022

🔴 - 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

  1. Level 3

    1. List A:

    2. List B:

    3. List C:

    4. Etude

TECHNIQUE

  1. HANON NO. 8 (Finger Independence Practice) (move through flat keys after C)

    1. C Major (please correct your mistakes if you make them while practicing Close Loud and Staccato).

      1. Close Loud at m.m. 96, one note per tic

        1. REMEMBER SHOULDERS RELAXED, CHEST OUT AND FORWARD, NECK RELAXED.

      2. Then, Staccato at m.m. 104, two notes per tic

        1. “CACTUS PRACTICE” Throw down the attack from above the keys, shorter sound, stronger, round fingers. Wrist use like a hinge.

      3. Legato m.m. 84 per half note

        1. think about rotating wrist more, between fingers 5-4 in the LH.

    2. (HANON No. 10: Left off at m.m 104 speed building in C Major)

THEORY: Level 3

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  1. Unit 2:

    1. Prepare for next lesson

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. ⚫️Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests: Level 2 Set 10 (on hold)

    1. Do 1 set a day.

      1. Anusha - Don’t go faster than m.m. 60 per quarter note.

      2. Squeaky - Take more time before you start.

    2. DON’T TOUCH THE KEYS BEFORE YOU BEGIN

    3. YOU MUST TAKE AT LEAST 30 SECONDS TO PREPARE FOR THIS IN YOUR MIND.

READING

  1. Piano Adventures: Sightreading, Level 2B

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    1. Before you begin, do the rhythm in your head (not thinking about the tones - JUST THE RHYTHM)

    2. Move on from page 14. You’re doing well here!

    3. Please prepare silently in your mind for at LEAST 30 seconds before you begin any sightreading exercise.

REPERTOIRE:

  1. Choose a couple more pieces from your review list for the recital.

  2. Etude in F Major Op. 777 No. 22 by Carl Czerny (1791-1857)(L. 3, Etude)

  3. (1)(Recital) Musette in D Major, BWV Anh. 126 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1865-1750)(L. 3, A)

    1. Don’t rush beat 2 of m. 8 and m. 20

    2. Don’t change temp in m. 13

    3. Some memory trouble in section B. Keep doing practice performances in “pressure” situations. This should help!

  4. (4)(Recital) Funny Puppy by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 3, C)

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    1. Practice starting from 5 different measures each day - random.

      1. Put music away

  5. (2)(Recital) Atacama Desert by Wynn-Anne Rossi (b. 1956) (L. 2, B)

    1. This beat was a bit rushed.

  6. (3)(Recital) German Dance in B-flat Major, Hob. IX:22, no. 5 by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (L. 2, A)

    1. Some note issues in RH section A

    2. m. 9 and throughout this section: the downbeat is rushed.

Repertoire Review List:

Rotate these each week. I will hear one of them each week and not in any particular order.

  1. 🟢Ecossaise in G Major WoO 23 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 2, A)

  2. 🟢Menuetto in C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) (L. 2, A)

  3. 🟢Allegretto in C Major by Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748-1798) (L. 2, A)

  4. 🟢Invention in C Major by Renée Christopher (L. 2, C)

  5. 🟢Clementi, Op. 36 No. 1, Movement 3 (L. 3, B)

  6. 🔴🔵Cornelius Gurlitt 1820-1901) Etude in D Minor, Op. 82 No. 65 (L. 2, Etude)

  7. 🔵Colored Windows by Edna Mae Burnam (L. 2, Etude)

  8. 🔵Feelin’ Good by Christopher Norton (L. 2, Etude)

  9. 🔵Etude in C Major Op 36 No. 22 by Alexander Gedike (L. 2, Etude)

  10. 🔵Burgmuller, The Limpid Stream, Op. 100 No. 7 (non-RCM)

  11. 🔵Burgmuller, Innocence. Op. 100 No. 5

  12. 🔵Funny Puppy by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 3, C)

  13. 🔵Ann Crosby-Gaudet, Periwinkle Twinkle (L. 2 B)