January 11, 2025 (60 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).

Interval Practice

Raise hand if you need to start over

Try not to show frustration if there are issues.

Expression.

💚RCM Exam Level 2

JANUARY 11, 2025 - REMOTE

Exam Repertoire

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

• I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

• Breezy by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2, C)

• Allegro in C Major op. 38, no. 8 by Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747-1822) (L. 2, Etude)

ASSIGNMENTS

#1💚TECHNIQUE Level 2

1. “RCM Technical Requirements 02” in Newzik

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

   2. All items need to be memorized. Practice with and without music.

   3. Before each item:

      1. Ask yourself - if it’s a scale, on which note does finger 4 play?

      2. What is the key signature (sharps or flats?)

      3. Harmonic or melodic?

   4. Three times correctly each item.

#2💚Allegro in C Major op. 38, no. 8 by Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747-1822)(L. 2, Etude)

1. Practice with the new audio in Newzik:

   1. Each one, 3 x’s correctly in the following order:

      1. RH Last System

      2. LH Last System

      3. HT Last System Slow

      4. HT Last System

2. no faster than m.m. 100

#3💚Breezy by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2, C)

1. Make sure to play staccato in measure 17

2. Bigger contrasts between mf and mp.

3. Practice the dynamic contrast between measures 17 and 18

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

1. Practice measures 9-12 slowly and with strong fingers 3 x’s a day no faster than m.m. 88 per 8th note.

2. Bigger contrasts in your dynamics.

3. Practice from beginning to end at m.m. 80 per QUARTER NOTE.

4. Be especially careful of measures 13-16 to keep with the metronome.

#5💚Playbacks

(up to 5 min each day)

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

#5 💚Interval Practice

1. Practice with the audio in the Newzik PDF “Interval Practice Level 02” once a day until your exam.

#6💚Four Star Level 2

(up to 10 min each day)

1. Finish set 8 and complete set 9

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

3. Please see the video embedded in your PDF

#7 💚I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

1. Places like measure 11 are very important to play softly.

2. You gradually increase your tempo over the course of the piece. Especially starting in measure 7.

3. Measure 16 - do the rit. (gradually slow down).

🖤Music Note-reading Challenge / Practcie

1. Do TWO minutes (2 one-minute rounds) per practice session.

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

3. Set the challenge to G major and F Major key signature.

🖤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)