October 29, 2021

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: Clementi

  • List C: Yoshinau Nakada, Song of the Twilight (L. 3, C)

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

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

Lesson Assignments

🟢 - On the right track, great work!

🟡 - On the right track but it needs detailed attention.

🔴 - This was not prepared or it needs a lot of attention and focus this week.

⚫️ - No assignment this week. Do not practice this item.

🟣 - We didn’t get to this item but we may look at it next week.

Technique

  1. Hanon No. 2 in C Major

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    1. SPEED BUILD to m.m. 86 per quarter note.

      1. Descending:

        1. Accent practice the 4th note in the pattern of 8

        2. Do the same thing above but with the 5th and then 6th notes.

      2. Clean up notes 4-6 of the pattern in the LH descending.

  2. Technical Requirements Level 3

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    1. Tonic Triads.

      1. Remember to keep your thumb further up on the keyboard when it plays on a white key.

      2. Prepare each assignment with close-loud fingers first, then medium tempo, then up to tempo.

    2. Scales:

      1. Check all your fingering.

Theory

  1. ⚫️Celebrate Theory: Level 3, UNIT 6

    1. (Hold)

    2. Pick up from page with Dustin

    3. FIX PURPLE PEN

Musicianship

  1. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

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    1. Go back to the beginning and start doing Set 1 and on again.

    2. Do the tests with Dustin at the lesson.

    3. Go online to work especially on the clapbacks.

  2. Online Ear Training and Rhythm

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    1. Focus is CLAPBACKS

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

      1. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

        1. Login Infoinfo@gledhillartscollective.com

        2. dust2789

  3. Piano Adventures Sightreading Level 2B

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    1. Move on from page 86

      1. m.m. 40 - 60 no faster than this

      2. In your mind, clap and ta the rhythm before you start.

Repertoire

  1. Gurlitt, Wild Mignonette (L. 3, C)

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    1. Fix m. 13 and 17 RH notes

    2. mm. 9-13 LH rhythm

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

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    1. Start learning with NFRPE!

  3. Possible New Pieces

    1. Clementi Op. 36 No. 1 vivace (L. 3, B)

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

    3. Lemoine, Etude in D Major (Etude, L. 3)

    5. Kabalevbsky, Clowns (L. 3, C)

      1. Start to learn with NFRPE chart.

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

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    1. See the purple pen

    2. Listen carefully to the recording in Newzik every day. Try to play like it. Expression is our focus.

    3. Memorize

  5. Bach Inventions and Sinfonia’s

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    1. Tell me next week which ones are your favorites.

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

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    1. SPOT PRACTICE ALL YELLOW BOXES

      1. See all the pen.

      2. M. 30:

        1. spot RH then HT.

        2. Find the balance using your wrist when you play fingering 1 and 3 together.

        3. Gradually expand your spot two measures at a time until you can play the entire page with a correct m. 30.

        4. Make sure that RH wrist is UP on the last note of m. 29

Review Pieces

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

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

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

  4. 🟣Nakada, The Song of Twilight (L. 3, C)

  5. 🟢Canon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901)

  6. 🟢Invention in A Minor by Renée Christopher (L. 2, C)

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

  8. 🟣Edna-Mae Burnam (1907-2007) Colored Windows (L. 2 Etude)

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

  10. 🟣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