May 2, 2023

Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program Information

  1. Dustin will show you the online RCM exercises next week.

  2. 💜Four Star: Level A

    1. Finish Set 8 and do Set 9

      1. Playbacks - still working on this.

  3. 💚Additional Ear Training Exercise:

    1. Play the triad and practice singing each

      1. Play the triad

      2. Sing or hum the tone (1, 3, or 5)

      3. Play the tone to check

      4. Sing again.

💛TECHNIQUE PREP A

  1. Triad sequence: Work on better sitting position, drop wrist when you play the solid chords.

  2. Broken triads: rotate your wrist toward the direction of the next note.

🖤Czerny, Opus. 823, No. 2

  1. REVIEW

🖤Czerny, Opus. 823, No. 3

  1. REVIEW

🖤CZERNY Op. 823 No. 4

  1. TO PASS:

    1. WRISTS UP / FINGERS CLOSE TO KEYS. DON’T COME OFF THE KEYBOARD SO FAR.

    2. FINGERS ROUND.

    3. NO CHOPPING 5TH FINGER IN RH.

  1. 💚What’s That Noise by Martha Mier (L. A)

    1. Practice starting from m. 2. And other places

    2. WORK ON THE EXPRESSION.

    3. MEMORIZE: 4 measures at a time with and without music.

  2. 💛Freddie the Frog (Prep B)

    1. Start from any measure.

  3. 💚A Skating Waltz by Boris Berlin (1907-2001) (L. A)

    1. Practice starting from 3 different measures each practice session.

    2. Practice hands alone LH (mf) and RH (pp) then hands together.

    3. Practice with and without the music.

  4. 🖤Baby Kangaroo by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. A)

  5. ❤️Allegro in C Major op. 1 no. 4 by Alexander Reinagle (1756-1809) (L. A)

    1. SEE THE MARKINGS IN NEWZIK

Once a week, review the following piece:

  1. 💜The Spooky Song

  2. 💚Czerny Op. 823 NO. 1 with curved fingers.

THEORY: Prep Level

  1. 🖤Unit 5: Pick up with Dustin next week at 8th notes / rests.