January 6, 2025 (Lesson 3 of 8)

Lesson Assignments

RCM Registration: January 5th!

#1🖤Theory Level 1

Prepare Unit 4

#2🖤Rhythms

Compose No. 36

Use quarter notes and rests.

Use ties

Use half notes.

Use dotted half note

#3💚Royal Conservatory of Music Technique: Prep Level B

See the yellow highlights:

No faster than m.m. 60 per note

Keep wrist ups And fingers curved.

#4💚Four Star Prep B

Prepare Set 1

Playbacks: Play a solid triad in C or G Major, then either the tonic or the mediant. Identify the note.

#5❤️SIGHT-READING Level 1

Do at least 1 per day.

Start the metronome to hear a steady beat, then you can turn it off (66 per quarter note).

#6💚💚Leaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)

Pedaling

Four measures at a time, practice adding your pedal. Continue to play legato even though you’re using pedal. Careful about playing too loudly.

Fix the green pen. Keep finger raised when you play finger 5.

#7💚The Lively Boy by Turk (Prep A)

Position and Note Values

Practice the bracketed sections to continue RH until the second beat.

Keep wrist up when you play staccato or detached.

#8 💚New Shoes by Linda Niamath (Prep B)

Four measures at time, hands alone first, then together, but choose your focus (which part of NFPER) and do each hand 3 times correctly before you move on.

REVIEW LIST

Review the pieces on this list, with your music, one time each week.

1. The Haunted Mouse

2. Curious Cat

3. Marching by Kabalevsky