2019-2020 Lesson 12 of 32

RCMCP: Level 2, Spring

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

TECHNIQUE - start with this assignment for each practice session.

  1. PREPARE: Page 8 - Set a timer for 5 min. Do the following, and when the timer finishes, pick up from where you left the next day.

    1. See the orange pen.

      1. Practice in two ways

        1. CLOSE LOUD

          1. Be careful that after you strike the key, you immediately move your wrist forward.

        2. LEGATO

          1. Slow down

          2. Bring your wrist higher.

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THEORY

  1. Celebrate Theory: Prep Level

    1. PREPARE: Unit 6

READING

  1. Bartok: Mikrokosmos, Book 1

    1. Prepare No. 11

      1. What lessons have we learned so far from all of the previous exercises?

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

    1. Hands alone - make it secure!

    2. Hands together, one measure at a time - repeat each measure 5 times correctly, SLOWLY.

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

    1. FIX THE RH NOTES IN MEASURE 24

    2. APPLY EXPRESSION! EXTREME EXPRESSION!

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

    1. For class

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