November 1, 2021

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

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

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

🟢 - On the right track, great work!

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

Lesson Assignments

Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program

  1. Level 2

    1. List A:

    2. List B:

    3. Etude

TECHNIQUE

  1. HANON NO. 4 (Finger Independence Practice)

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    1. C Major

      1. Close Loud at m.m. 96, one note per tic

        1. REMEMBER SHOULDERS RELAXED, CHEST OUT AND FORWARD, NECK RELAXED.

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

      3. Legato m.m. 63 per half note

        1. FOCUS: on balance and relaxation.

    2. (HANON No. 10: Left off at m.m 104 speed building in C Major)

THEORY: Level 2

  1. 🟢🟢🟢🟡🟡 Prepare Unit 6

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

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    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. Learn this in one week!

    2. Please practice RH and LH alone first very carefully, thinking about expressive movements.

    3. Once you start to put it hands together, do it in SLOW MOTION, exaggerating the movements.

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

    1. See the new pencil for expressive markings.

    2. Remember that your wrist needs to be lower at the start of your trills, and more importantly, your chest needs to stay out and shoulders relaxed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  13. Angelfish (L. 1B)