March 24, 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: May 19th 12:15 pm

  1. Level 3

    1. List A: Musette in D Major, BWV Anh. 126 by Johann Sebastian Bach

    2. List B: Clementi Sonatina no. 1

    3. List C: Funny Puppy by Anne Crosby Gaudet

    4. Etude: Little Piece No. 7

    5. Etude: Left Alone

TECHNIQUE

  1. RCMCP Technique Level 3

    💛

    1. SCALES:

      1. Think before you start any of these.

      2. Where is your 4th finger?

      3. Keek your wrist smoother with formula pattern.

    2. CHORDS: (start with Dustin next week)

      1. Continue to do these hands apart.

  2. HANON NO. 8 (Finger Independence Practice)

    💛 BEFORE YOU BEGIN - DO IT IN YOUR HEAD.

    1. F 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. If you make a mistake, you need to go back one rotation and fix it.

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

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

        1. Relaxed shoulders

      3. Legato m.m. 66 per half note

        1. I’ll BE LOOKING FOR FINGERS FURTHER INTO THE BLACK.

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

THEORY: Level 3

  1. Unit 4: (at least half)

    ❤️❤️

    1. Fix ALL the red pen in the first several pages

    2. Finish the unit

    3. Order of sharps

      1. F, C, G, D, A, E, B

    4. Order of flats

      1. B, E, A, D, G, C, F

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests: Level 3

    💚

    1. Prepare Set 6

      1. Sight-reading: don’t go back and fix mistakes.

READING

  1. Piano Adventures: Sightreading, Level 2B

    🖤

    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. Left Alone by Joyce Grill (b. 1936)(L. 3, Etude)

    💚

    1. See pencil markings

    2. m. 5 - clear pedal change

    3. mm. 1-5 - voice the bass notes above the chords

  2. Arabesque (L. 3, Etude)

    💙

    1. Decide if we’re going to do this for the assessment.

  3. Little Piece No. 7 (L. 3, Etude)

    💚

    1. Speedbuild from m.m. 76 - 100

      1. Priorities are shoulders down and good expression.

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

    💚

    1. Measure 7: RH wrist, drop into the down beat a bit more.

      1. What is your body movement when you’re soft and when you’re loud?

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

    💙

    1. Review

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

    💙

    1. Review

Repertoire Review List:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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