December 8, 2025

Performance Roulette

  1. Use this scheduling link to sign up for a 10 minute spot for your performance.

Lesson Point System:

  1. One point for each video submission.

  2. For example 4 practice videos with three required submissions per week = 12 video submission

  3. Grade = number of video submissions before the next lesson.

  1. Also review your scales

  2. Start more of Arabesque with Dustin next week.

  3. Weekly Practice Video: Complete all the steps in this video at least three times this week - ideally five!

🟩Etude in D Major by Czerny (L. 2, Etude)

  1. Practice hands alone and practice starting from random meausres.

🟩Minuet in G Major, K 1 e by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) (L. 2, A)

  1. Practice hands alone and practice starting from random meausres. Review the fingering carefully.

🟩The Waltz That Floated Away (L. 2, B)

  1. Practice hands alone and practice starting from random meausres. Work on memorization

🟩Canon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (L. 2, C)

  1. Practice hands alone and practice starting from random meausres. Work on memorization

🟩RCM Technical Requirements Level 2 PDF in Newzik

  1. Review all scales, making sure fingering is correct.

  2. Make sure you’re getting through all technique items at least three times before your next lesson.

🟩Four Star Sight Reading and Ear Tests Level 2

  1. Sight-read through all the test examples at least three times before you next lesson.

⚫️Theory in Newzik (5-10 min each day)

🖤SIGHTREADING 62-92 PDF

  1. Prepare pages 29-33 of the PDF

    1. Remember to count before you begin.

    2. Remember the play the ties

  2. SET A METRONOME TO 60 PER QUARTER NOTE

    1. STUDY THE TIME SIGNATURE

    2. DO THE RHYTHM IN YOUR HEAD

    3. THEN STUDY THE NOTE NAMES IN YOUR HEAD AND THE DIRECTION OF THE NOTES

    4. THEN PLAY WITH A STEADY SLOW BEAT.

    5. KEEP YOUR WRISTS UP

    6. DOUBLE CHECK THAT YOU’RE GIVING EACH HALF NOTE TWO BEATS! 🥸

    7. WHEN YOU FINISH, ASK YOURSELF WHAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED. FIX IT IN YOUR HEAD AND DO IT AGAIN!

Review Repertoire:

Practice starting from any measure of any piece below.

  1. Angelfish by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 1, B)

  2. 💚Leaping the Waves with Dolphins by Barbara Arens (Prep B)

  3. 💜To Fly Like an Eagle (Prep B)

  4. Jingle Bells Duet




💚RCM Exam Level 1 - Remote

  1. January 11, 2025 - 6 pm

  2. Repertoire:

    1. Detectives by Christine Donkin (Etude, L. 1)

    2. Minuet in D Major by Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) (L. 1, A)

    3. Angelfish by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 1, B)

    4. Young Ludwig Exploring by Forrest Kinney (L. 1, C)