March 14, 2025

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?

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

#1💚Laura

  1. Please ask Elliott if you will be adding any pedal for the April 27th final recital.

#2💚Beethoven Für Elise (April 27 Recital)

  1. Measure 23: popcorn!

  2. More draaaama in dynamics.

  3. See all yellow highlights - need to be fixed by next lesson.

#3💜Odeon (April 27 Recital)

  1. Focus on rhythm this week.

#4💛Bach, Invention No. 1 in C Major (April 27 Recital)

  1. All detached 8ths - sticky staccato

  2. Continue to bring this back into your fingers.

#5💚Linus & Lucy (April 27 Recital)

  1. Hand Position in Measure 5:

    1. Get into an A-flat 2nd inversion chord.

    2. Notice where your thumb is on the E-flat

    3. Keep wrist alignment and hand placement on the keyboard when you play the figure.

    4. Start by playing the top voice legato (drop / pop wrist)

    5. Then bottom voice lightly

    6. Then together.

  2. Finish learning the end

    1. RH is a bit mushy. More tidy attacks.

  3. Add the outro descending 4ths (see your videos)

🖤Chopin, Prelude in D-flat Major

💚THEORY: Level 6 Unit 4 Intervals due by June 4th

  1. Fix the purple pen on page 51

  2. Do pages 52 and 53

    1. Identify size first

    2. Think of the bottom note as the tonic of a scale.

    3. Then identify quality

SIGHT-READING: (3-5 min a day)

  1. 💚Burgmüller, 25 Etudes Op. 100: Continue on from 8

  2. 🖤Bartok Microcosmos: Book II: stopped at no. 52

Rotate these each week.

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

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

  2. Solitude by Joyce Grill? (L. 4 Etude)

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

  4. Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2, Movement 3 (L. 4, B)

  5. 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

  1. I’M LOOKING FOR YOUR POSITION ON THE KEYBOARD - NO MOVING FORWARD OR BACKWARD AT ALL!

  2. A Major - rotate between staccato and close loud, then do 3 times run-though legato.

    1. 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.

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

      1. Relaxed shoulders

    3. Legato m.m. Start at 72 per quarter note and work up to m.m. 88

      1. Ultimate Oiled Fingers (legato)!

      2. 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)