2019-2020 Lesson 18 of 32

RCMCP: Level 2, Spring

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

TECHNIQUE - start with this assignment for each practice session.

  1. PREPARE:

    1. Page 9

    2. C major formula pattern - ask yourself where your 4th finger is!

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THEORY

  1. Celebrate Theory: Prep Level

    1. Dustin: BRING UNIT 7 NEXT WEEK.

READING

  1. Bartok: Mikrokosmos, Book 1

    1. NO ASSIGNMENT UNTIL AFTER FEB 2 RECITAL

    2. Prepare No. 11

  2. Four Star Sightreading & Ear Tests Level 2

    1. PREPARE: all of Set 4

    2. Sightreading Portion

      1. Key signature: what is it?

      2. Time signature: what is it?

      3. Study the rhythm.

      4. Study the notes and intervals.

      5. Set a SLOW and steady beat in your mind.

      6. BEGIN! and DON’T STOP ONCE YOU’VE STARTED

  3. *Piano Adventures Sightreading Level 2A

    1. Move on from page 10

    2. Do 1-2 of these each day.

    3. BEAT IS THE BOSS

    4. GO SLOWLY

REPERTOIRE

  1. Half Asleep by Christopher Norton

    1. Remember how we did this at your lesson? Learn ha da together!

  2. Invention in C Major (L. 2, C)

    1. Review once a week WITH YOUR MUSIC.

  3. The Silent Moon, Nancy Telfer (L. 2 List B)

    1. Review once a week WITH YOUR MUSIC.

  4. L. V. Beethoven, Ecossaise in G Major (L. 2 List A)

    1. Review once a week WITH YOUR MUSIC.

REVIEW - one time each week with your music:

  1. Far Away by Teresa Richert (b. 1954) - (Etude, L. 1)

  2. German Dance in G Major Hob. IX:22, No. 3 by Haydn

  3. A Swingin Leprechaun by Mike Schoenmmehl

  4. Hopscotch