February 10, 2024

Remote Level 2 RCM Exam

💜Is there anything from the High school Musical you’d like to incorporate into your lesson: learning on the piano one of the songs?

💜Schedule practice time: Write the approx time of your practice session below.

  • Monday

  • Tuesday

  • Wednesday

  • Thursday

  • Friday

  • Saturday

  • Sunday

❤️TECHNIQUE Prep A (UP TO 5 MIN A DAY)

  1. Go to your new PDF called “RCM Technical Requirements 01”

  2. Do the yellow highlighted items.

  3. Memorize where the whole and half steps are in the major and minor scales

❤️Four Star Prep B (UP TO 10 min a Day)

  1. Go to your new PDF in Newzik called “FOUR STAR Prep B”

  2. Complete Sets 2, 3 and 4

    1. For the RHYTHM portion (Star 2): Clap one measure of just beats, then continue clapping while you “tah” the rhythm.

❤️Theory Level 1 (5 MINUTES A DAY)

  1. Finish Unit 3, pages 7-9

💜Guns and Roses

  1. This Child of Mine?

💜💜💚I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

  1. Practice 5-6 - ninja hands practice between the two measures.

  2. Practice the LH alone “pop-wrists.” Popping the wrist up while the fingers dangle / relax.

  3. Look at how many measures are the same or similar in this piece! Have the whole thing learned by next week.

  4. Also, remember how funny it was that you could play the notes so easily when you looked at your music vs. not looking at the music? Remember this! :)

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

  1. Practice by starting from any measure of the piece. Test next week.

💜💜💛Teapot Invention by Andrew Markow (1942-2013) (L. 1, C)

  1. PRACTICE STARTING FROM THE GREEN AND PURPLE PEN

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

  1. Practice starting from random measures.

🖤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

  2. SET A METRONOME TO 60 PER QUARTER NOTE

    1. STUDY THE TIME SIGNATURE

    2. DO THE RHYTHM IN YOUR HEAD

    3. THEN STUDY THE NOTE NAMES IN YOUR HEAD AND THE DIRECTION OF THE NOTES

    4. THEN PLAY WITH A STEADY SLOW BEAT.

    5. KEEP YOUR WRISTS UP

    6. WHEN YOU FINISH, ASK YOURSELF WHAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED. FIX IT IN YOUR HEAD AND DO IT AGAIN!

❤️❤️REVIEW THE FOLLOWING REPERTOIRE ONCE A WEEK WITH YOUR MUSIC!

(Set a timer for 5 min and review by saying the names of the notes in your head first.(

  1. 💚I Want it That Way

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

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

  4. Foggy Beach (Prep. B)

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

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

  6. Distant Chimes (expired Prep. B)

  7. 💚Calico Cat Helen Marlais

  8. Duet - Jingle Bells (Non-RCM)

  9. 💚Turkish March (Non-RCM)