April 28, 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: L’Arabesque

    5. Etude: Left Alone

TECHNIQUE

  1. RCMCP Technique Level 3 (Close loud, then final tempo for each one)

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    1. SCALES:

      1. These need to be correct on the first try.

      2. Think about relative majors if you’re unsure of the minors.

    2. CHORDS:

      1. Big heavy Simba - don’t let him fall off.

      2. Deeper sound but still smooth wrist.

  2. HANON NO. 9

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    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. 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. 84 per half note

        1. Ultimate Oiled Fingers (legato)!

        2. Keep fingers close to the keys.

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

    3. (No. 8: left off at m.m. 72 in F Major)

THEORY: Level 3

  1. Unit 6

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    1. Print Unit 6 and we’ll look at it next time.

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests: Level 3

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    1. Go back to the beginning of the book and do them over :)

    2. REMEMBER: the goal with sight-reading is to develop the skill of moving on from the mistake

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

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

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    1. You really put me in a mood here! Very brooding. Love it. :)

    2. Tempo needs to be slightly faster.

  2. Arabesque (L. 3, Etude)

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    1. Current speed (mm. 92)

    2. On all 16th notes:

      1. LH, approach the 16th from above the keys.

      2. Slow work:

        1. Close Loud (no faster than m.m. 112 per note)

        2. Staccato (no faster than m.m. 120, two notes per tic)

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

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    1. Musette put a little bug in your ear that said “you can’t do it.” Let Polaris chase that bug away and remind yourself of all the GREAT PLAYING YOU DO! :)

  4. Musette in D Major, BWV Anh. 126 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1665-1750)(L. 3, A)

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    1. Good recovery from the first mistakes, then I felt like you started to give up a little bit.

    2. The examiner will be able to tell if you are trying to move on from your mistakes or if you are letting them get to you.

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

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    1. Speed build to 120

Repertoire Review List:

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

  1. 💚Little Piece No. 7 by Marko Tajcevic (L. 3, Etude)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  9. 💚Cornelius Gurlitt 1820-1901) Etude in D Minor, Op. 82 No. 65 (L. 2, Etude)

    1. Careful of hiccups in the pedal

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

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

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

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

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

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