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: 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 at least 5 minutes of focused technique each day. Rotate the items in the diagram.
Smooth wrists (how do they look?)
When the thumb is on a black key, white key fingers further up on the keys.
#3💚Four Star: Level 2:
(Approx. 7-10 min each day)
Sight-reading:
Pay equal attention to the notes and fingering (sometimes fingering can trick you into thinking the notes are different than they are!)
Practice playbacks in steps:
Identify the tonic or dominant (always for level 2)
There are 5 notes total in the examples.
The perimeter is within a pentascale of the key.
#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)
LH detached notes (see orange).
#7💜Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5, no. 1. II. Romanze, attr. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 3, B)
See the video for measures 16-19
Please see the video for the yellow highlights
Measures 35 to the end, block the LH.
LH rolled chords: see the videos in Newzik for these chords
🎹💚A Ditty of Yimeng Mountain (2. C)
Relearn measures 9-end with correct rhythm.
Please see the video in Newzik regarding pedaling.
🎹💚Minuet in A Minor by Purcell (2, A)
Looking at half notes vs. quarter notes and remember how we held them for the appropriate lengths.
🎹💚Rhyme Time (2. B)
Treat this like a sight-reading assignment and review once a day until back in your fingers.
🖤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