February 1, 2025 (Lesson 6 of 8)

RCM Registration: January 5th!

PRACTICE PLAN!

• ❤️FIRST PRIORITY

• 💛SECOND PRIORITY

• 💜THIRD PRIORITY

• 💚FOURTH PRIORITY

RCMCP Level 2: Spring 2025

• List A: Minuet in A Minor by Purcell

• List B: Rhyme Time

• List C: A Ditty of Yimeng Mountain

• Etude: Etude in F Major, Op. 190, No. 27 by Christian Louis Heinrich Köhler

  • or

• Etude: Bird in the Bebop by Wynn-Anne Rossi

#1💚Keep going with your new practice journal! Good work.

#2❤️RCM Technical Requirements Level 02

(Approx. 8-13 min each day)

1. Do the highlighted yellow items listed on page 1

2. Do one time slowly, close-loud

3. Once correctly legato and with metronome.

4. Wrist still needs to be steady. Try to not to move it up, down or to the sides when you play your scales. 💃

#3💚Four Star: Level 2: Four Star Set 10

(Approx. 7-10 min each day)

1. Practice the playbacks and clap backs with audio samples in Newzik (test PDF)

#4💚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💜uBird in the Bebop by Wynn-Anne Rossi (L. 2, Etude)

1. Experiment with body movement!

2. Yellow section: Once correctly with each metronome marking: Always start at the lowest number. It’s ok to not get to each tempo at each practice session, but the goal by the end of the week will be to do that.

#7💚Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114 by Christian Petzold (1677-1733) (L. 3, A)

1. Learn two measures at a time with a focus of NFPER before you go on to the next two measures. Then combine to make four, then 8 etc.

🖤Musette in D Major, BWV Anh. 126, attr. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (L. 3, A)

🖤Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5, no. 1. Moderato, attr. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 3, B)

🖤Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5, no. 1. II. Romanze, attr. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 3, B)

🖤“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.

REVIEW PIECES:

1. O Christmas Tree

2. Etude in F Major, Op. 190, No. 27 by Christian Louis Heinrich Köhler (L. 2, Etude)

3. 💚A Ditty of Yimeng Mountain (2. C)

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

5. 💚Rhyme Time (2. B)

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

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

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

9. 💚💜Angelfish (L. 1, B)

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

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

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

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

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

15. 💚💚💚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