January 3, 2025 (Lesson 2 of 8)

RCM Registration: January 5th!

PRACTICE PLAN!

• ❤️FIRST PRIORITY

• 💛SECOND PRIORITY

• 💜THIRD PRIORITY

• 💚FOURTH PRIORITY

POSTURE TRACKER!

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New Level 3 Piece!

#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)

1. RH alone practice focusing on crescendo and decrescendo in 8 measure chunks.

2. Then add the LH with focus in crescendo. / decrescendo.

#3💜RCM Technical Requirements Level 02

(Approx. 8-13 min each day)

1. Do the highlighted yellow items listed on page 1

2. We are speed-building scales.

   1. Keep LH wrists level with your arm. The wrist is actually too high! 😎

   2. Work up to m.m. 80 and count “1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and” before you being.

#4💚Four Star: Level 2: Four Star Set 8 - 9

(Approx. 7-10 min each day)

1. January 8th lesson: we’ll skip this.

2. Complete the sets

3. Work on major and minor 3rds with Dustin (and perfect 5ths)

#4.1💚Interval & Chord Recognition

1. Major 3rd, Minor 3rd or Perfect 5th

   1. Play the interval ascending and descending once.

   2. Ask yourself if it’s a larger (5th) or smaller (3rd) interval

   3. Then ask yourself if it can fit within a major or minor scale (if 3rd)

2. Major or Minor Root Position Triads (blocked / solid)

   1. Play several of these each practice session.

#5🖤THEORY Level 3

1. Pause

#6💚Bird in the Bebop by Wynn-Anne Rossi (L. 2, Etude)

1. Listen to the audio in Newzik titled “14 and 15”

2. See the orange pen

🖤“Sight-Reading 2B” (pause until after December)

(Approx. 3-5 min each day)

1. Continue from page 37 of 90 (of the PDF)

2. 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.

3. PRACTICE SIGHT-READING NO FASTER THAN M.M. 50 PER QUARTER NOTE.

RCMCP Level 2: Take Spring 2025

REVIEW PIECES:

1. O Christmas Tree

2. 💚A Ditty of Yimeng Mountain (2. C)

3. 💚Minuet in A Minor by Purcell (2, A)

4. 💚Rhyme Time (2. B)

5. 💚The Snake by Renée Christopher (L. 1, C)

6. 💚Andante in G Minor by Georg Philip Telemann (L. 1, A)

7. 💚Detectives by Christine Donkin (L. 1, Etude)

8. 💚💜Angelfish (L. 1, B)

9. 💚Celebration by Ann Crosby Gaudet (L. 1, Etude)

10. 💜💚💚 The Calico Cat by Helen Marlais (b. 1966) (Prep B)

11. 💚💚💚Freddie the Frog by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (b. 1968) (Prep B)

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

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

14. 💚💚💚What’s That Noise by Martha Mier (b. 1936) L. A)

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