RCM Level 4: Score of 96 (Regional Gold Medal!) Perform a level 6 piece?
RCM Level 5: Fall 2023 (November 30th)
RCM Level 6: Fall 2024?
2024 Final Recital: May 19th 1:00 pm
Sonatina in A Minor Brenda
Dancing Scales
Chopin, Waltz in A minor
River City Blues
LESSON ASSIGNMENTS
💜RICE-READING: (3-5 min a day)
💚Burgmüller, 25 Etudes Op. 100: Continue on from 8
🖤Bartok Microcosmos: Book II: stopped at no. 52
❤️Sight Reading
Please start your practice with a sight-reading assignment every practice session. Use level 6 Four Star
💜Level 6 Unit 4 Intervals due by June 4th
Bach Invention No. 1 in C Major
Start!
💚Four Star Sight-reading and Ear Tests: Level 6
PREPARE: Set 2
💚RCMCP Technique Level 6 (at least 10 min a day)
See green highlighted items in the RCM Syllabus.
These need to be correct on the first try.
Start with CLOSE LOUD
Followed by HIGH LOUD
Followed by LEGATO
💚Octave Exercise: HANDS TOGETHER (wrists need to be in-movement)
Hands alone scales.
Don’t repeat the top note or stop at the top.
G, D, A Major
Rotate these each week. I will hear one of them each week and not in any particular order.
Etude 1: Kabalevsky, Prelude in G Minor, Op. 39 No. 19 (L. 5, Etude)
Etude 2: Harmony of Angels, Op. 100, No. 21 by Burgmuller (L. 5, Etude
💚Chopin, Waltz in A Minor, Op. Posth. B 150
💚River City Blues by Martha Mier (L. 6, Etude)
💚Sonatina in A Minor by Georg Anton Benda (L. 6, B)
💚Dancing Scales by John Burge (L. 6, Etude)
💚Beethoven Sonatina in F Major (L. 5, B)
💚Scamp by Christopher Norton (L. 5, C)
💚Kabalevsky, Prelude in G Minor, Op. 39 No. 19 (L. 5, Etude)
💚💚💚Rameau (1683-1764) : Deux Rigadon (Pièces de Clavecin 1724) (L. 5, A)
💚💚💚The Spice of Life by Tom Gerou (L. 5, C)
Bach Little Prelude in C Major (L. 5, A)
💚💚💚Sunset in Rio by Mike Springer (b. 1968) (L. 5, C)
💚💚💚Dream catcher by Anne Crosby (L. 4, C)
💚💚💚Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2, Movement 3 (L. 4, B)
💚💚💚Solitude by Joyce Grill? (L. 4 Etude)
💚💚💚Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2, Movement 2 (L. 4, B)
💚💚💚Ballade, Op. 100, No. 15 by Burgmuller (L. 4, Etude)
💚💚💜Cool Cat Waltz by Katya Pine (L. 4, C)
💚💚💜Air in B-flat Major by Handel (L. 4, A)
💚💚💚The Somersault King (L. 4 Etude)
💚💚💚Funny Puppy by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 3, C)
💚💚💚Musette in D Major, BWV Anh. 126 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1665-1750)(L. 3, A)
💚💚💚L’Arabesque, op. 100 no. 2 (L. 3, Etude)
💚💚💚Masquerade by Linda Niamath (b. 1939) (L. 4, Etude)
💚💚💚Clementi Sonatina op. 36 no. 1 in C Major: All three movements
💚💚💚Little Piece No. 7 by Marko Tajcevic (L. 3, Etude)
💚💚 💚Clementi, Op. 36 No. 1, Movement 3 (L. 3, B)
RCMCP Exams
Level 4: June 2, 2023, 11:26 am
Masquerade by Linda Niamath (b. 1939) (L. 4, Etude)
Solitude by Joyce Grill? (L. 4 Etude)
Air in B-flat Major by Handel (L. 4, A)
Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2, Movement 3 (L. 4, B)
Cool Cat Waltz by Katya Pine (L. 4, C)
ASSIGNMENTS ON HOLD
🛑HANON NO. 2 in A (work up to m.m. 84, 4 notes per tick) Two Octaves
I’M LOOKING FOR YOUR POSITION ON THE KEYBOARD - NO MOVING FORWARD OR BACKWARD AT ALL!
A Major - rotate between staccato and close loud, then do 3 times run-though legato.
Accent Practice (two modes) at m.m. work up to 96 for next week one note per tic
If you make a mistake, you need to go back one rotation and fix it.
REMEMBER SHOULDERS RELAXED, CHEST OUT AND FORWARD, NECK RELAXED.
Then, Staccato at m.m. 104, two notes per tic (two octaves)
Relaxed shoulders
Legato m.m. Start at 72 per quarter note and work up to m.m. 88
Ultimate Oiled Fingers (legato)!
Keep fingers close to the keys.
(No. 10: Left off at m.m 104 in C, G, D Major)
(No. 9: left off at m.m. 80 in C, G, D Major)
(No. 8: left off at m.m. 84 in C, G, D Major)
(No. 7: left off at m.m. 88 in C, G Major)
(No. 6: left off at m.m. 88 in C, G Major)
(No. 5: left off at m.m. 88 in C, G Major)
(No. 4: left off at m.m. 88 in C, G Major)
(No. 3: left of at m.m. 88 in C, G Major)
(No. 2: left off at m.m. 88 in C, G Major)
(No. 1: Left off at m.m. 80 in C, G, D Major)