January 21, 2025 (30 min virtual)

❤️= Priority above all else (repeated issues or reglect).

💛= Priority after red (on the right track but needs more work).

💜= Item we did not do at the last lesson. Lesson priority before green.

💚= on the right track! Practice these items as usual but prioritize other colors first.

🖤= don’t practice this item (on hold).

💚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)

Musical Note Identification Exercise
Test your knowledge of musical notes by identifying them quickly and accurately. Click the button below to start the exercise.
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Keep a Practice Journal / Log Every Day

February Talent Show:

Viva La Vida - Trumpet and Piano 60-90 seconds.

Priority: Viva La Vida

1. Measures 1-28:

   1. Practice any transition areas.

   2. Practice with and without the metronome.

2. Measures 29-44:

   1. Practice hands alone without metronome until you can play very confidently.

   2. Practice hands together after hands alone.

   3. Clap and ta the rhythm of the RH before you play it.

   4. Final step is add metronome (start with 80-100 per quarter note)

#1🖤After the exam: Minuet in G Major, K 1 e by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) (L. 2, A)

#2💚RCM Technical Requirements Level 2 PDF in Newzik

#4💚Four Star Sight Reading and Ear Tests Level 2

#5🖤Etude in D Major by Czerny (L. 2, Etude) (7-15 min each day)

1. Goal this week is to play LH accompaniment quietly.

#6💜Theory in Newzik (5-10 min each day)

1. GO TO YOUR PDF “THEORY 01 07”

   1. Review all of Unit 7 for a test next week.

🖤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