November 5, 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 3A

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    1. Move on from page 14

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

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

Repertoire

  1. Mental Practice Repertoire

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

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    1. MM. 14-15 - FIX THE RHYTHM.

    2. RH 8th notes softer.

    3. Add pedal for every beat but use your ear to clear the pedal if it start too mushy.

    4. LH quieter.

    5. M. 14 - don’t ritardando too soon!

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

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    1. Apply all the expression! Remember when playing staccato to NOT pull toward yourself on the keys. THink of the spring board in gymnastics!

    2. Learn to the end.

    3. Start to practice with the metronome as soon as you have all the notes and expression learned well.

  4. Possible New Pieces

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

    2. Attwood - Sonatina. L. B

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

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

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

    1. Start to learn with NFRPE chart.

  6. 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

  7. Bach Inventions

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

    2. https://youtu.be/31r5ZgWeC0o THIS IS THE LINK FOR BACH INVENTIONS.

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

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    1. M.M. 88 is your final tempo but DO NOT PRACTICE at this tempo this week.

    2. Start by practicing at m.m. 50 per half note:

      1. Mm. 1-16 - 3 times correctly, playing exactly with the metronome, exaggerating the expression.

      2. Mm. 15-24: same as above

      3. mm. 23-End: same as above.

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