September 29, 2022 (1 of 5)

RCMCP Technique Level 4

  1. Do the highlighted items

  2. Arpeggios:

    1. Driving a car - remember this for elbow position

    2. Close Loud

    3. Then, very slowly legato

    1. Hands alone

    2. Don’t do this fast.

HANON NO. 4 (work up to m.m. 88) Two Octaves (last week on this)

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

    1. Remember to raise your wrists at the top of the patten.

    2. Close Loud at m.m. work up to 96 for next week 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.

    3. Then, Staccato at m.m. 104, two notes per tic (two octaves)

      1. Relaxed shoulders

    4. Legato m.m. Start at 72 per half note and work up to m.m. 88

      1. Ultimate Oiled Fingers (legato)!

      2. Keep fingers close to the keys.

    (No. 3: left of at m.m. 88 in G Major)

    (No. 2: left off at m.m. 88 in G Major)

    (No. 1: Left off at m.m. 80 in G Major)

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

    (No. 9: left off at m.m. 88 in C Major)

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

Level 4:

  1. Unit 1 - Look at this with Dustin next time

Four Star Sight-reading and Ear Tests: Level 4

  1. You’re finishing set 10

  2. Work on sets 4-8 in Newzik or in your book.

❤️❤️❤️Piano Adventures: Sight-reading, Level 3a

  1. Dustin: bring this book next week

The Avalanche, Ballade or The Somersault King

  1. Choose

Air in B-flat Major by Handel (L. 4, A)

  1. See blue pen in Newzik

  2. All trill articulate - think about them before you start

Cool Cat Waltz by Katya Pine (L. 4, C)

  1. See the purple markings

  2. Add body language

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

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

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

  3. L’Arabesque, op. 100 no. 2 (L. 3, Etude)

  4. Masquerade by Linda Niamath (b. 1939) (L. 4, Etude)

  5. Clementi Sonatina op. 36 no. 1 in C Major: All three movements

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

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

    1. Drop wrists lower with a hook finger when you have two-note slurs in the RH.

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

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

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

    1. Work on building tempo

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

  12. 💚 💚 Invention in C Major by Renée Christopher (L. 2, C)

    1. Dynamics

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

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

    1. Careful of hiccups in the pedal

  15. 💚💚Colored Windows by Edna Mae Burnam (L. 2, Etude)

    1. No pulling on the keys. Plant and move forward. Round 5th finger. Top voices.

  16. 💚💙Feelin’ Good by Christopher Norton (L. 2, Etude)

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

  18. 💚💙Burgmuller, The Limpid Stream, Op. 100 No. 7 (non-RCM)

  19. 💚Burgmuller, Innocence. Op. 100 No. 5

  20. 💚💚Ann Crosby-Gaudet, Periwinkle Twinkle (L. 2 B)