January 4, 12 & 19, 2024

Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program Information

💜THEORY: Level 1

  1. Finish Unit 5

    1. Read the instructions carefully

    2. Complete for next lesson.

    3. Be able to teach me about any items in the chapter.

💜“Sight-Reading 2A”

  1. See your new PDF in newzik and start from page 3. Follow the instructions below for sight-reading.

  2. Let me know if this is too difficult and we’ll go back a level

💚Four Star: Level B.

  1. Go to the Test section of the Test PDF and practice the playbacks and clap backs.

💜Czerny Op. 599 No. 12 - resume with Dustin

  1. Speed-building: measures 5-8

    1. Very slowly at first, gradually build your tempo to a fast pace.

    2. Start at m.m. 72 and build 126 = quarter note.

    3. Focus on keeping a soft sound

    4. Remember curved fingers.

💜Hanon No. 1 (speed-building)

  1. Metronome 80 per 8th note.

  2. Listen to the metronome first to get two note per tick in your mind

  3. TIDY ATTACKS (hands exactly together)

  4. CURVED FINGERS

  5. WORK ON YOUR TRANSITION AND ENDING

💚🎹Technique: Prep B

  1. Level 1 Technique next week.

  2. See the PDF with the yellow highlights and practice the items.

    1. Practice saying the

    2. Page 8 of 9: G Major Scale

    3. Page 9 of 9: all of it.

      1. Prepare C Major and G Major And A minor

        1. Sound should be approx. mf and legato.

        2. m.m. 40 per quarter note (per triplet).

        3. Before you start, count out loud “1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 and a” and then start.

🖤(no assignment)CZERNY Op. 823 No. 4

Angelfish (L. 1)

💜The Snake by Renée Christopher (L. 1, C)

  1. Focus on expression and hands together.

💚Andante in G Minor by Georg Philip Telemann (L. 1, A)

  1. Continue memorization

  2. See the new markings in Newzik

💜Celebration by Ann Crosby Gaudet (L. 1)

  1. Measures 14 and 16: drop into the key and pop off the keyboard with a forward wrists and into the air. The point here is to keep relaxed. Watch the video.

  2. measure 12 - prepare the RH sooner for the last note.

  3. Measures 11-12 - get rid of the pause between the measures.

Once a week, review the following pieces with the music:

  1. Minuet in F Major by Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) (Prep B)

  2. 💚💜The Calico Cat by Helen Marlais (b. 1966) (Prep B)

    1. Review, making sure your focus on DYNAMICS.

  3. 💚💚💜Freddie the Frog by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (b. 1968) (Prep B)

  4. 💚💚💚Allegro in C Major op. 1 no. 4 by Alexander Reinagle (1756-1809) (L. A)

  5. 💚💚💚A Skating Waltz by Boris Berlin (1907-2001) (L. A)

  6. 💚💚💚What’s That Noise by Martha Mier (b. 1936) L. A)

❤️ = Needs lots of work or wasn’t prepared properly for more than one lesson

💜 = Didn’t get to it at the last lesson - we’ll start with this before 💛 or 💚

💛 = Doing the assignment but needs special attention

💚 - On track and do the assignment.

2023 Fall Milestones

  1. RCM Level B Exam in the Fall? Or Level 1 in the Spring.