April 26, 2025 (Lesson 8 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

💛Keep going with your new practice journal! Good work.

  1. Write the item and blog “number” or “step” and how long each step took.

recital 🎹💚A Ditty of Yimeng Mountain (2. C)

  1. Last two measures: slow down and get softer. Listen to the audio and practice after you listen to it.

  2. Measures 8, softer and slower to make the entrance of measure 9 special - new character.

  3. measures 9 to the end - RH softer.

Debussy wrote two books of Préludes, each with 12 pieces. Rather than titles at the top, he placed them at the end — like secrets revealed only after listening. 

“Vwal” is from Book 1, and its title could mean either “sails” or “veils” in French. The music floats like fabric in the wind or mist drifting across the sea.

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

  1. Metronome practice with and without,, three times at m.m. 104

  2. Focus on expressive contrast (dynamics)).

This gavotte is part of Bach’s French Suite Number five — written not in France, but in Germany, and in the French style. The music is graceful, precise, and is part of a group of dances, many of which were created in the 16th century.

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

  1. Have more fun with this piece!

This piece sounds just like a clock! With repeating notes and a steady beat, it helps students feel rhythm while imagining the ticking of time. It’s simple, playful, and a great way to practice even timing and hand coordination.

💜RCM Technical Requirements Level 02

(Approx. 8-13 min each day)

  1. Please trim your nails. :)

  2. No accents in scales - practice with and without metronome and focus on smooth sound - no accents.

  3. Broken chords: B-flat major, LH, 2nd inversion, finger 2 on B-flat.

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

💛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.

💚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.

💜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.

💜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