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)
Do the highlighted yellow items listed on page 1
Special focus is wrist: think about the penny on your wrist when you tuck under the thumb and cross over the thumb.
#3💚Four Star: Level 2:
(Approx. 7-10 min each day)
Do the sight-reading examples from Sets 3 and 4 (two per day)
Practice playbacks in steps:
Identify the tonic or dominant
Then play two notes: identify tonic or dominant followed by identifying the interval (1, 2, 3 of 5)
Add another note and do the same as above.
#4💚Interval & Chord Recognition
Major 3rd, Minor 3rd or Perfect 5th
Play the interval ascending and descending once.
‼️10 audio examples are found in “Four_Star_02_Tests” in Newzik. Select the media button and the audio is titled “Interval Training”
Major or Minor Root Position Triads (blocked / solid)
Play several of these each practice session.
#5💚Bird in the Bebop by Wynn-Anne Rossi (L. 2, Etude)
Practice starting from any measure of the piece (three times per practice session.
Once through with metronome 84 per quarter note (this helps keep the muscle memory in tact and notes clean).
Work on memorization and practice with m.m. 108, 112, and 116
#6💚Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114 by Christian Petzold (1677-1733) (L. 3, A)
Between mm. 20-21, working on getting rid of th pause.
Measure 31: fix the LH note in beat two. “spot” this section.
Remember: spotting means to isolate your problem area, practice hands alone and together, 3-5 times in-a-row correctly.
Trill Exercise: Measure 30.
Start by accenting the upper note of the trill and make the lower note softer 10 times with good position.
Same as above but switch the accent.
#7💚Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5, no. 1. II. Romanze, attr. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 3, B)
Learn measures 1-8.
Very slowly, hands apart, then hands together, in very small chunks.
Focus on Notes, Fingering, and the orange expressive markings.
🖤THEORY Level 3
Pause
🖤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)
🖤“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.
REVIEW PIECES:
O Christmas Tree
Etude in F Major, Op. 190, No. 27 by Christian Louis Heinrich Köhler (L. 2, Etude)
💚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)
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