January 24, 2024

Assignment Key

💚 = Assignment on track. Keep up the good work.

💛 = Assignment needs special attention - a bit more work.

❤️ = Assignment was not done, or needs a lot of extra attention.

💜 = We didnt’ get to this at the lesson and we’ll start with it next week.

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2023 Winter Semester Milestones

1. Level 1, RCMCP Exam: Schedule for week of February 7th online

1. ❤️Royal Conservatory of Music Technical Tests: Level 1

   1. SCALES: no faster than m.m. 100 per note.

   2. Prepare the items in Newzik in the “Scales Major and Minor 4 Octaves” PDF on pages 1, 2 and 12

   3. Keep your wrists above the white keys.

   4. Don’t twist your wrist

2. 💚Hanon: The Virtuoso Pianist No. 3

   1. Rotate your practice between close-loud and high-loud.

   2. Fix fingering in LH

   3. No pauses

   4. Fingers curved

   5. Experiment with your wrist position at a faster tempo.

1. 💚Create an online account for RCM (see your text thread).

2. 💚Four Star: Sight-reading & Ear Tests

   1. Complete Sets 2 and 3 (two per day)

1. 💚Celebrate Theory Level 1, Unit 6

   1. Remember stems on the left side if they are down and on the right side if they’re going up.

   2. Remember when drawing sharps and flats: they are drawn on the same line or space as the note.

1. 💜NEW PIECE (level 2)

2. 💚The Snake (L. 1, C)

   1. No faster than m.m. 112 per quarter note. Think about the rhythm before you start.

3. 💜Mist by Clifford Pool (L. 1, B)

   1. Print you music again with new markings.

   2. Fix all of the markings in your music.

   3. Start at random measures and play in 6 measure chunks.

      1. Be able to play the chunks 3 times correctly.

1. Celebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. Etude)

   1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece - once a week

2. Ukrainian Folk Song by Beethoven (L. 1, A)

   1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece - once a week