November 2, 2024

❤️= 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 2

JANUARY 11, 2025 - REMOTE

Repertoire

• Ecossaise in G Major WoO 23 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 2, A)

• I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

💚Music Note-reading Challenge / Practcie

1. Do three minutes (3 one-minute rounds) per practice session.

2. LINK TO THE GAME: https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/note

💚TECHNIQUE Level 2 (5-7 min each day)

1. “RCM Technical Requirements 02” in Newzik

   1. Please see the highlighted yellow in the diagram on page.

💚Playbacks (3-5 min each day)

1. Go to the Playbacks PDF and practice with the audio in the PDF.

💛Four Star Level 2 (5-10 min each day)

1. Finish Set 4 and Complete Set 5

2. Sight-reading: please slow down. Focus on fingering and key signature

3. Please see the video embedded in your PDF

💚 Breezy by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2, C) (7-15 min each day)

1. “SPOT” all of the purple highlighted areas. 3 times in-a-row correctly each day.

❤️Ecossaise in G Major WoO 23 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 2, A) (2-3 min each day)

1. Please practice starting from any measure of the piece.

2. Listen to the audio embedded in the PDF once a day. Then practice with it.

3. Start from several random measures with the music.

💛I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B) (2-3 min each day)

1. Review one time a week with your music.

2. Start from several random measures with the music.

💜Allegro in C Major op. 38, no. 8 by Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747-1822)(L. 2, Etude) (7-15 min each day)

1. Use metronome 60 per 8th note once you get to the RHYTHM portion of NFPER.

   1. Feeling “confused?” Do the following:

      1. Choose your section (what measures?)

      2. Start with hands alone

      3. Choose one or two goals at a time from NFPER

      4. Three times correctly each.

   2. Watch the video inside the PDF for help

🖤Theory Level 1 (5 MINUTES A DAY)

1. Complete all of Unit 5 over the next two weeks.

🖤Minuet in G Major, K 1e by W.A. Mozart (L. 2, A)

1. Learn after the Beethoven!

🖤GO TO YOUR PDF SIGHT-READING 00 62-95

1. Prepare pages 26-29

Review the following pieces as you wish!

1. 💚Etude in C Major, op. 125 no. 3 by Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) (L. 1, Etude)

2. 💚Teapot Invention by Andrew Markow (1942-2013) (L. 1, C)

3. 💚I Want it That Way

4. ❤️❤️German Dance in D Major Hob. IX:22, No. 2 by Franz Joseph Haydn (L. 1, A)

5. Clear Mountain Sky by Mike Springer (L. 1, B)

6. Foggy Beach (Prep. B)

7. Oranges and Lemons by Boris Berlin (Prep. B)

   1. IN MEASURE 9, DON’T FORGET THAT THERE IS A POSITION CHANGE!

8. Distant Chimes (expired Prep. B)

9. 💚Calico Cat Helen Marlais

10. Duet - Jingle Bells (Non-RCM)

11. 💚Turkish March (Non-RCM)