2019-2020 Lesson 1 of 32

RCMCP: Level 2?

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

TECHNIQUE

  1. Major Scale:

    1. Teach me about the pattern in whole and half steps next week! See page 4 in your “Technical Requirement for Piano” book.

  2. PREPARE: Page 7, G Major

    1. “Stop / Prepare” practice in each hand, ascending and descending. Remember not to dip your wrists. Keep your wrist at one height. Not too high and not too low.

    2. Then, practice SLOWLY in each hand with FORM as your focus.

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READING

  1. Four Star Sightreading & Ear Tests Level 2

    1. PREPARE: All of review set 1

      1. Ask yourself “where is middle C?”

  2. Sightreading 1

    1. Read about pages 4-5

    2. Do one “day” per practice session according to the instructions.


HOLD

Czerny Op. 823 No 16

  1. “SPOTTING” or a “SPOT” is a small section of your music that need to be cleaned up! To “spot” a section, do the following:

    1. Create the spot by starting at least one measure before the mistake and finishing one measure after the mistake

    2. Be able to play it 3 times in-a-row correctly.

  2. LH ms. 12 to the end: 3 times in-a-row perfect. Every practice session. “Spot”

  3. RH ms. 1-4: “SPOT”

  4. Be able to play hands alone to the end with NO STOPS and NO MISTAKES

*MUSICIANSHIP

  1. RHYTHM

    1. PREPARE: Nos

      1. Remember to conduct one bar of silence before you begin to ta

      2. Relax your your wrist, fingers and arm when you conduct. Why do we do this?

REPERTOIRE

  1. *The Silent Moon, Nancy Telfer

    1. Learn hands alone in chunks of 4 measures at a time

    2. Then hands together using NFRPE

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

    1. Spot the purple pen.

    2. BE ABLET TO PLLAY HANDS ALONE with no pauses and all expression correctly before you put this hands together.

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