2019-2020 Lesson 9 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. 10

      1. See the orange pen

      2. Tell me a story in three parts! Make up your own story according to the composition of the note. Beginning , middle and end.

      3. Add your own expression.

  2. **Four Star Sightreading & Ear Tests Level 2

    1. PREPARE: all of Set 2

      1. Double check your clefs to make sure you’re in the correct register.

      2. When you do the rhythm, make sure you hold long notes for their full value and clap on the final bar line to indicate the end of the beat.

    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

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REPERTOIRE

  1. New Piece Next Week.

    1. Choose from L. 2 repertoire.

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

    1. FIX THE PAUSE in measures 8-9

      1. preparing the LH in measure 8 to play in measure 9

    2. WRIST UP AND CORRECT NOTE in measures 11-13

    3. Hands together to the very end. Add dynamics!

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

    1. Next week, record so we can send to Rami.

    2. Fix the pink pen and blue pen especially in the B and C sections. DYNAMICS!

    3. Practice this slowly and exaggerate your new dynamics.

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