2026-2027 Events
October 17-18, 2026 — Group Classes
December 5-6, 2026 — Group Classes
January 24, 2027 — Performance Class & Guest Artist Workshop
February 27-28, 2027 — Group Classes
April 10-11, 2027 — Group Classes
May 22, 2027 — Student Final Recital
How to Practice
Use the Practice Tools panel below. It logs your practice for you — no comments needed.
Press Start here. It picks up where you stopped last time.
Read the assignment, press Start, practice.
Tap the kind of practice — learning, spotting, memorizing, polishing, run-through or review — then press Done.
Press Next practice item and go again.
Capped items count down and chime. Keep going if it's going well.
Got something to say about an assignment? Paste the line it gives you into the comments and add your note.
Also in the panel: a metronome, a spotting counter, and recording.
Log only what you actually did, on the day you did it. Five minutes is a real entry. Logging starts October 1.
🟩 on track · 🟨 needs extra attention · 🟪 didn't get to it at the lesson · 🟥 priority · ⬛️ don't practice this one
[PRACTICE TOOLS]
Technique
1. 🟨 Technical Requirements for Piano, Level 3 (RCM)
⏱ Max 7 minutes per practice session.
Final tempo on F major, D major and B minor, all forms.
Learn the notes for D minor forms.
Simon Says Click Scales
Have someone, or something, make a sound to tell you when to switch direction in the scale.
Start slowly and build speed gradually.
Keep the same fingering you use for two-octave scales.
Hands alone first, then hands together.
Repertoire
2. 🟩 Sonatina in C major, Op. 36 No. 1, Vivace (Clementi)
From Six Progressive Sonatinas for the Piano Forte, Op. 36. RCM Level 3, List B.
Learn to measure 36. Hands alone first, then together, in small chunks with repetition.
Learn this in four-measure chunks using NFPER.
3. 🟪 Musette in D major, BWV Anh. 126 (Bach)
RCM Level 3, List A.
See the green and blue markings in your score. Have those fixed by your next lesson.
4. 🟪 Twilight Prelude (Springer)
RCM Level 3, List C.
Review one time each week until Musette is finished.
5. 🟩 Arabesque, Op. 100 No. 2 (Burgmüller)
RCM Level 3, Etude.
Theory
6. 🟪 Identifying Intervals
Take the bottom note of the interval as the tonic of a major or minor scale, then ask yourself whether the upper note belongs to that scale.
Even intervals sit line to space, or space to line.
Odd intervals sit line to line, or space to space.
Unisons, 4ths, 5ths and 8ths are perfect intervals, and they are found in both the major and the minor scale.
Goals This Year
Aiming for RCM Level 3 in November.
Technique Toolbox
Close-loud — for fast scale-like passages that need finger independence.
Play the key with a strong attack, close the finger to the key, forward-motion wrist, then relax immediately while the key is still down.
Accent practice — for the same kind of passage.
Use close-loud on one note of a small group, rotating which note gets it while all the others stay fast and soft.
Review List
Practice starting from any measure of any piece below.
Level 2
💚 Minuet in G major, K. 1e (Mozart) (List A)
💚 The Waltz That Floated Away (List B)
💚 Canon in D major (Czerny) (Etude)
Level 1
💚 Angelfish (Anne Crosby Gaudet) (List B)
Preparatory B
💚 Leaping the Waves with Dolphins (Barbara Arens)
💜 To Fly Like an Eagle
Duet
💚 Jingle Bells (duet)