March 29, 2025 (Lesson 5 of 8)

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)

  1. Do at least 5 minutes of focused technique each day. Rotate the items in the diagram.

  2. Smooth wrists (how do they look?)

  3. 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)

  1. Prepare Set 1

  2. Sight-reading:

    1. Pay equal attention to the notes and fingering (sometimes fingering can trick you into thinking the notes are different than they are!)

  3. Practice playbacks in steps:

    1. Identify the tonic or dominant (always for level 2)

    2. There are 5 notes total in the examples.

    3. The perimeter is within a pentascale of the key.

#4💜Interval & Chord Recognition

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

    1. Play the interval ascending and descending once.

    2. ‼️10 audio examples are found in “Four_Star_02_Tests” in Newzik. Select the media button and the audio is titled “Interval Training”

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

    1. Play several of these each practice session.

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

  1. See green pen.

  2. 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)

  1. Where you can end your phrases with a soft touch?

  2. Measures 22-24 LH detached notes.

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

  1. Spot all the green sections each practice session.

  2. LH rolled chords:

    1. RH 3 eighth notes - slow down

    2. LH approach the chord with motion.


🎹💚A Ditty of Yimeng Mountain (2. C)

Measures 9 to the end, practice with m.m. 40 per quarter note. RH drop into the keys and SOFT SOFT SOFT.

🎹💚Minuet in A Minor by Purcell (2, A)

Four measures at a time: with and without metronome 76 per quarter note.

🎹💜Rhyme Time (2. B)

Treat this like a sight-reading assignment and review once a day until back in your fingers.

🖤THEORY Level 3

  1. 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”

(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