PRACTICE PLAN!
❤️FIRST PRIORITY
💛SECOND PRIORITY
💜THIRD PRIORITY
💚FOURTH PRIORITY
POSTURE TRACKER!
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#1💚Keep going with your new practice journal! Good work.
#2💚Etude in F Major, Op. 190, No. 27 by Christian Louis Heinrich Köhler (L. 2, Etude)
(Approx. 10-15 min each day)
Exaggerate the RH melody - sing it more than you think you need to and it will come out just right. We did this at the lesson and it sounded lovely!
Continue to practice with and without the music.
#3💚O Christmas Tree
(Approx 5-7 min each day)
Please play the rhythm as written. The 8th notes are not swinging 8ths.
Add pedal!
#4💜RCM Technical Requirements Level 02
(Approx. 7-12 min each day)
Do the highlighted yellow items listed on page 1
We are speed-building scales.
Keep LH wrists level with your arm. The wrist is actually too high! 😎
Work up to m.m. 80 and count “1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and” before you being.
#5💚Four Star: Level 2: Four Star Set 7
(Approx. 7-10 min each day)
Complete the set.
Work on major and minor 3rds with Dustin (and perfect 5ths)
#6💛THEORY: Level 2, Unit 8
Please study the red pen on page 76 and pick up here with Dustin next time.
Remember that descending a scale is going backward. Ascending is going forward.
Also, the leading tone in a minor key needs to be in harmonic form (1/2 step away from the tonic).
#7💚Bird in the Bebop by Wynn-Anne Rossi (L. 2, Etude)
Learn one measure at a time, without swing, then with swing. Remember to repeat the good!
🖤“Sight-Reading 2B” (pause until after December)
(Approx. 3-5 min each day)
Continue from page 37 of 90 (of the PDF)
Be sure to move forward through mistakes - don’t correct them until you finish the exercise - then fix them in your MIND first before you try the entire thing again.
PRACTICE SIGHT-READING NO FASTER THAN M.M. 50 PER QUARTER NOTE.
RCMCP Level 2: Take Spring 2025
REVIEW PIECES:
💚A Ditty of Yimeng Mountain (2. C)
💚Minuet in A Minor by Purcell (2, A)
💚Rhyme Time (2. B)
💚The Snake by Renée Christopher (L. 1, C)
💚Andante in G Minor by Georg Philip Telemann (L. 1, A)
💚Detectives by Christine Donkin (L. 1, Etude)
💚💜Angelfish (L. 1, B)
💚Celebration by Ann Crosby Gaudet (L. 1, Etude)
💜💚💚 The Calico Cat by Helen Marlais (b. 1966) (Prep B)
💚💚💚Freddie the Frog by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (b. 1968) (Prep B)
💚💚💚Allegro in C Major op. 1 no. 4 by Alexander Reinagle (1756-1809) (L. A)
💚💚💚A Skating Waltz by Boris Berlin (1907-2001) (L. A)
💚💚💚What’s That Noise by Martha Mier (b. 1936) L. A)
2023 Fall Milestones
RCM Level B Exam in the Fall? Or Level 1 in the Spring.
Register for RCM Level 1 Exam by February 10th
RCM LEVEL 1 EXAM: May 29th 11:01 am
List A: Andante
List B: Angelfish
List C: The Snake
Etude: Detectives
Recital May 19th: 3 pm (or 1 pm if possible)
Angelfish
Detectives
The Snake
Andante
Celebration