October 28, 2022

💜RCMCP Technique Level 4

Do the highlighted items

💜HANON NO. 5 (work up to m.m. 88) Two Octaves

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

    1. Position further up into the black. Legato fingers (close to the keys), accent practice.

    2. Accent Practice (two modes) 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. 4: left off at m.m. 88 in G Major)

    (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, Unit 3

  1. Single stem 8th notes: the flag should always go to the right.

💜Four Star Sight-reading and Ear Tests: Level 4

  1. Go online to RCM’s ear training and musicianship and do the Level 4 exercises.

  2. Getting 10 / 10 half of the time.

💜Piano Adventures: Sight-reading, Level 3B

  1. Remember that the number one priority is: steady pulse. It’s ok to make mistakes or make up notes if you need to. I’d rather hear a steady beat.

The Avalanche,

💚Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2, Movement 2

  1. Learn

💚Ballade

  1. mm. 1-2 - the sound should be consistent in each note of the triad: soft and short. LH should be the same type of sound quality.

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

  1. Pass next week with markings in Newzik.

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

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

  2. The Somersault King (L. 4 Etude)

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

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

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

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

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

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

  9. 💚💚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.

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

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

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

    1. Work on building tempo

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

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

    1. Dynamics

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

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

    1. Careful of hiccups in the pedal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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