December 15, 2022 (3 of 3)

💚RCMCP Technique Level 4

I’m interested in the sound of your technique!

💛HANON NO. 7 (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).

  2. THREE CHANCES TO PASS OFF AT EACH LESSON with no more than three patterns with untidy attacks.

    1. Beware of your fingering! How did we practice the movements?

    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. 6: left off at m.m. 88 in G Major)

    (No. 5: left off at m.m. 88 in G Major)

    (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. Fix the red pen

🖤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. Continue on from p. 46

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

  1. Isolate the melody first - make it sing

  2. Then add the middle note (don’t hold on to it after you play it) and keep the top voice singing.

  3. Back to step one.

  4. Back to step two but with the bottom note

  5. Back to step one

  6. Now add both voices

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

  1. See the green pen

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

  1. See yellow and red pen. Fix the items and then we’ll put this on review.

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

  1. 💚Ballade, Op. 100, No. 15 by Burgmuller (L. 4, Etude)

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

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

  4. The Somersault King (L. 4 Etude)

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

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

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

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

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

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

  11. 💚💚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.

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

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

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

    1. Work on building tempo

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

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

    1. Dynamics

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

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

    1. Careful of hiccups in the pedal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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