April 21, 2025

❤️= 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).

💚Keep a Practice Journal / Log Every Day

(recital) 💚Etude in D Major by Czerny (L. 2, Etude) (7-15 min each day)

  1. Start at random points.

  2. LH and RH alone - 1 x per day.

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

  1. Goal: Entire Piece Hands Together

    1. Four measures at a time, LH alone, RH alone, then HT.

    2. Spot the blue box

    3. Fix any green highlighted fingering

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

  1. “Spot” all the yellow circles.

  2. Count the beats at the end.

  3. For each section: measures 1-9, 9-17, and 17-End:

    1. RH, LH, HT

  4. Choose 5 random measures to start from each day.

💚RCM Technical Requirements Level 2 PDF in Newzik

  1. See the highlighted blue items

  2. Please play our technique with an even tone (same volume)

💛Four Star Sight Reading and Ear Tests Level 2

  1. Complete Sets 1 & 2

💜Theory in Newzik (5-10 min each day)

  1. GO TO YOUR PDF “THEORY 02 Review”

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

  1. Pause on learning this until after Wattz

🖤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)