2019-2020 Lesson 15 of 32

RCMCP: Level 2, Spring

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

TECHNIQUE - start with this assignment for each practice session.

  1. PREPARE:

    1. G harmonic minor and G melodic minor on page 8

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

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THEORY

  1. Celebrate Theory: Prep Level

    1. No more Theory until after recital on February 2nd (UNIT 7 NEXT)

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. Start to learn! Hands alone, then together, in small chunks.

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

    1. Be able to play this from beginning to end with no stops and ALL THE ARTICULATION

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

    1. HANDS ALONE PRACTICE

      1. Practice entire piece hands alone with the music.

    2. SECTION PREACTICE

      1. Choose a small section and play 3 times in-a-row correctly having one focus.

    3. FINAL TEMPO PRACTICE

      1. Entire piece 3 times correctly.

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

    1. Review for your Feb. 2nd recital.

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