June 2, 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 3 end of June?

  1. List A

  2. List B

  3. List C

  4. Etude 1

  5. Etude 2

Final Recital: April 27, 2025

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

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

  3. Musette in D Major, BWV Anh. 125 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

ASSIGNMENTS

❤️Album for the Young, Op. 39, No. 1. Morning Prayer Pytor Tchaikovsky

  1. METHOD:

    1. Learn 1-2 measures at a time.

    2. ONE VOICE at a time (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)

    3. Add another voice

    4. Then all together.

    5. Lots of repetition.

    6. FINGERING IS MOST IMPORTANT!

❤️Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5, no. 1. II. Romanze (L. 3, B)

  1. Whole piece, hands alone and hands together. Careful to read your notes.

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

  1. Whole piece, hands alone and hands together. Careful to read your notes.

❤️TECHNIQUE Level 3

  1. Prepare all the scales on page 7 indicated in the music (not 7 of the PDF)

  2. Do these hands alone first, then together slowly, careful of your fingering!

❤️Four Star Level 3

  1. Prepare Review Set 2

  2. Sight-reading preparation method:

    1. Study the rhythm in your mind - actually play the rhythm in your mind as an abstract exercise (think about clap-back exercises). What is the time signature? What is the shortest note-value?

    2. Notes and fingering. Look at the key signature. Observe intervals - the distance between the notes.

    3. Choose a slow tempo and start to play with a steady beat - don’t stop once you start. Move forward if you make mistakes.

#🖤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)

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

  2. I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

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

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

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

  6. 💚I Want it That Way

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

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

  9. Foggy Beach (Prep. B)

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

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

  11. Distant Chimes (expired Prep. B)

  12. 💚Calico Cat Helen Marlais

  13. Duet - Jingle Bells (Non-RCM)

  14. 💚Turkish March (Non-RCM)

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