June 16, 2023

COMMENT SECTION:

EVERY TIME YOU PRACTICE, WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU PRACTICED AND FOR HOW LONG IN THE COMMENT SECTION BELOW

RCMCP

  • Level 1: December 6, 2019, Received 85

  • Level 3: December 9, 2021, Received 82

  • Level 4: June 2, 2023 (with Dustin), Received 83.5

💚Hanon No. 3 in G Major:

Use the speed-building practice chart.

  1. ACCENT PRACTICE:

    1. Rotate which note you play accents in groups of four.

    2. Do this with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th notes.

  2. STACCATO PRACTICE:

    1. Keep fingers round and attack from above the keys.

  3. MEDIUM TEMPO:

    1. Start at m.m. 66 and work your way up to 84

    2. Remember to keep you fingers rounder / curved. They are currently too stretched out.

  1. No. 3: C, G at m.m.

  2. No. 2: C, G at m.m. 84

  3. No. 1 - C, G at m.m. 84

  4. (No. 10 - left off at m.m. 84)

  5. (No. 9 - left off at m.m. 92)

  6. (No. 8 - left off at m.m. 88)

  7. (No. 7 - left off at m.m. 100 in C Major)

  8. (No. 6 - left off at m.m. 92 in C Major)

  9. (No. 5 - stopped at m.m. 100 in C Major)

💚Technical Requirements Level 5

  1. Please stay a little further up on the keys if you’re playing black keys.

  2. Remember that fingers should be ROUNDED and CURVED.


❤️Celebrate Theory: Level 5

  1. Prepare pages 4-7

💚Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 5

  1. Complete Set 1

  2. Do chord progressions with Dustin next time.

🖤Online Ear Training and Rhythm Level 4

  1. Work on clap backs and playbacks.

  2. https://moodle.rcmusic.com/lms/my/

    1. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

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      2. dust2789

💚Czerny Op. 823, Nos. 9-10

  1. Review and use your forward wrist more on long notes

  2. Fix any note errors.

  3. Next week, speed-build with Dustin


Prelude op. 39 no. 19 by Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) (L. 5, Etude)

  1. Follow the NFPER practice charts in your PDF

💚Review Pieces

  1. 💚Clementi Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2, Movement 3 (L. 4, B)

  2. 💚Cécile Chaminade, Barcarolle Op. 123, no. 8 (L. 4, C)

  3. 💚Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 116 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (L. 4, A)

  4. 💚Burgmuller, Ballade in C Minor Op. 100 No. 15 (L. 4 Etude)

  5. 💚Masquerade by Linda Niamath (L. 4 Etude)

  6. 💚Clementi Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2, Movement 2 (L. 4, B)

  7. 💚Etude in G Major, op. 823 no. 53 by Carl Czerny (1791-1857) (L. 4, Etude)

  9. 💚March in D Major, BWV Anh. 122 by Carl Philip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) (L. 4, A)

  10. Sonatina in F Major op. 168 no. 1 by Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) (L. 4, B)

  11. The Happy Farmer, op. 68 no. 10 by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) (L. 4, C)

  12. 💚Old French Song, Op. 39 No. 16 by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) (L. 4, C)

  13. 💚💚Harlequinade (L. 3, A)

  14. 💚Bach, Musette in D Major (L. 3, A)

  15. 💚Kabalevbsky, Clowns (L. 3, C).

  16. 💚💚Gavotte in G Major HWV 491 by George Frederic Handel (L. 3, A)

  17. 💚💜Clementi Sonatina Op. 36 No. 1 in C Major - Movement 1 (L. 3, B).

  18. 🟢Tajcevic, Little Piece No. 7 (Etude, L. 3)

  19. 🟢Johann Ludwig Krebs, Harlequinade, Suite No. 3 in E-flat Major (L. 3, A)

  20. 🟢💚Burgmüller, Op. 100 No. 2, l’Arabesque (L. 3, Etude)

  21. 🟢💜Left Alone by Joyce Grill (L. 3 Etude)

  22. 💚💚Nakada, The Song of Twilight (L. 3, C)

  23. 💚💚Canon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901)

  24. 💚Canon in D Major by Carleton Elliott (1928-2003) (L. 2)

  25. 💚💚Invention in A Minor by Renée Christopher (L. 2, C)

  26. 💚💚Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) German Dance in B-flat Major Hob. IX:22 No. 5 (L. 2, A)

  27. 💚Edna-Mae Burnam (1907-2007) Colored Windows (L. 2 Etude)

  28. 💚💚Alexander Gedike (1877-1957) Etude in C Major Op. 36 No. 22 (L. 2, Etude)

  29. 💚💜The Highlands by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2 Etude)

Review Once a Week with your Music

CLASSICAL

  1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

    1. Minuet in F Major K. 2 by (L. 1, A)

CONTEMPORARY

  1. Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

    1. For Children, Book 1, No. 1 and 2 (L. 2, B)

  2. (recital) Etude in C Major by Felix le Coupey (L. 1 Etude)

  3. Skating Waltz

  4. Distant Chimes.

  5. Canon by Carleton Elliot (1928-2003) (L. 1, C)

  6. (3/23) Detectives by Christine Donkin (L. 1 Etude)

  7. (3/23) German Dance in D Major by F. J. Haydn (Level 1. A)

  8. Angelfish (Level 1. B)


HOLD

  1. Czerny Op. 823

    1. we left off on no. 8

  1. Rhythm Book.

    1. PREPARE: Nos. 43-45 on page 23

RCMCP

Exam: Piano - Level 3
Exam Confirmation No.: 5391486
Scheduled for: Thursday, 09 December 2021 2:00 PM

  • List A: Johann Ludwig Krebs, Harlequinade, Suite No. 3 in E-flat Major (L. 3, A)

  • List B: Muzio Clementi, Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36 No. 1, Allegro

  • List C: Wild Mignonette Op. 205 No. 1 by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901) (L. 3, C)

  • Etude: Burgmüller, Op. 100 No. 2, l’Arabesque (L. 3, Etude)

  • Etude: Grill, Left Alone (L. 3, Etude)