June 7, 2025 (Lesson 4 of 8)

PRACTICE PLAN!

  • ❤️FIRST PRIORITY

  • 💛SECOND PRIORITY

  • 💜THIRD PRIORITY

  • 💚FOURTH PRIORITY

Notes

Fingering

Position

Expression

Rhythms

💛RCM Technical Requirements Level 03

  1. Study the diagram and paragraph on p. 2

  2. Skip p. 3

  3. Prepare D Major, B Minor Melodic and Harmonic.

    1. REMEMBER these are played two octaves and hands together. The grand staff implies hands together, and the instructions on page 4 indicate HT.

    2. Master hands alone first, then together.

    3. please trim nails. 😎

💚Four Star: Level 3

  1. Prepare 03_00_01 (Review Set 2)

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

  1. Review

💚Arabesque

  1. 🎥Down-up wrists. Please see the new “Down-up wrist practice” video uploaded to Newzik.

  2. 🎥Please watch the new “RH measures 1-10” and please follow the wrist movements and articulations. Fingering can be tricky too! Practice with NFPER in mind. One at a time.

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

  1. Work on LH legato from measures 34-38. It will be harder hands together.

  2. Work the last two systems for note accuracy as well. Please don’t go fast.

🖤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:

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

  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