October 25, 2021

🟢 - On the right track, great work!

🟡 - On the right track but it needs detailed attention.

🔴 - This was not prepared or it needs a lot of attention and focus this week.

⚫️ - No assignment this week. Do not practice this item.

🔵 - We didn’t get to this item but we may look at it next week.

Lesson Assignments

Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program

  1. Level 2

    1. List A:

    2. List B:

    3. Etude

TECHNIQUE

  1. 🟢🟢🟢🟡HANON NO. 10 (Speed-building)

    1. C Major

      1. Close Loud at m.m. 116, one note per tic

      2. Then, Staccato at m.m. 104, two notes per tic (RELAX YOUR BODY)

      3. Legato m.m. 72 - 120

        1. One tempo at a time, speed-build, using your wrists as a weapon for speed!

THEORY: Level 2

  1. 🟢🟢🟡🟡 Prepare Unit 5

    1. See the red pen for corrections.

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. ⚫️Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests: Level 2 Set 10 (on hold)

    1. Do 1 set a day.

      1. Anusha - Don’t go faster than m.m. 60 per quarter note.

      2. Squeaky - Take more time before you start.

    2. DON’T TOUCH THE KEYS BEFORE YOU BEGIN

    3. YOU MUST TAKE AT LEAST 30 SECONDS TO PREPARE FOR THIS IN YOUR MIND.

READING

  1. 🔵🟢🔵🟢Piano Adventures: Sightreading, Level 2B

    1. Move on from page 14. You’re doing well here!

    2. Please prepare silently in your mind for at LEAST 30 seconds before you begin any sightreading exercise.

REPERTOIRE:

  1. ⚫️Invention in C Major by Renée Christopher (L. 2, C)

    1. Up Next

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

    1. PREPARE NFRPE for mm. 9-16

    2. Practice trills on their own.

      1. Close Loud

      2. Staccato

      3. Accent practice

  3. 🟢🔵🟢🔵Burgmuller, The Limpid Stream, Op. 100 No. 7 (non-RCM)

    1. This is sounding great!

    2. Speed-build, one tempo at a time, keeping expression as focus (and relaxation), to m.m. 120 per quarter note.

    3. SEE THE NEW PEDAL MARKINGS!

Repertoire Review List:

  1. Clementi, Op. 36 No. 1, Movement 3 (L. 3, A)

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

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

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

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

  6. Burgmuller, Innocence. Op. 100 No. 5

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

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

  9. German Dance in D Major Hob. IX:22, No. 2, Franz Joseph Haydn (L. 1, B)

  10. Celebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. 1, Etude)(recital)

  11. Etude in C Major by Félix Le Couppey (L. 1, Etude

  12. Angelfish (L. 1B)