March 15, 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).

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)

Final Recital: April 27, 2025

  1. Sonatina in F Major, Anh. 5, no. 1. II. Romanze

  2. I Spy by Melody Bober

  3. Allegro in C Major op. 38, no. 8 by Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747-1822)

  4. Ecossaise by Beethoven

ASSIGNMENTS

#1🖤Four Star Level 3

  1. Prepare Review Set 2

#2💛Sonatina in F Major, Anh. 5, no. 1. II. Romanze (L. 3, B)

  1. 💛Compound Time Signatures:

    1. The beat is divided into three equal parts. So 6/8 time signature has two beats (six 8th notes, grouped into two beats).

  2. 💛TO-DO LIST EVERY DAY:

    1. m. 3, LH alone three times correctly.

      1. Finger 5 further up on the keyboard and fix the green notes.

      2. Then do this hands together.

    2. m. 4, LH hold the D circled in orange.

    3. 🎥m. 5 (please see the practice video in Newzik and follow the instructions).

    4. m. 7 (same issue as measure 5)

    5. mm. 8-11 please fix the fingering.

      1. Then add LH by doing alone first, then together.

      2. Remember the legato vs. staccato competition.

    6. Learn hands alone then together to m. 22

      1. Just remember that I’ll check fingering and notes.

      2. 🎥See the new video for measures 16-19

    7. If you have time, please learn to the end hands alone and together.

#4💜TECHNIQUE Level 3

  1. Do the blue highlighted items in the diagram.

  2. Don’t go faster than m.m. 50 per quarter note. BUT don’t use the metronome until you feel more comfortable with the notes.

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

  1. Practice starting from three random measures each day.

  2. Use metronome 100 and be mindful of the last system (carefully not to slow down)

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

  1. Practice at least one time per week

  2. Use your music and play at a slow tempo

#6 💚I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

  1. Practice starting from three random measures each day.

  2. Use your music and play at a slow tempo

#🖤Arabesque, op. 100 no. 2 by Johann Friedrich Burgmuller (L. 3, Etude)

#🖤In the Spirit by Christopher Norton (L. 3, Etude)

#🖤Etude in D Minor op. 261 no. 53 (L. 3, Etude)

#🖤Musette in D Major BWV Anh. 125 by J. S. Bach (L. 3, A)

🖤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.

🖤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)