January 3, 2025

RCM Registration: January 5th!

2024-2025 (7th Grade, RCM L. 5)

1. RCM: Work toward level 5

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

💚A Summer Day by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 5, Etude)

1. Learn as much as you can! Small chunks with repetition.

🖤Joyous Etude by Melody Bober (b. 1955) (L. 5, Etude)

💚Keep a practice journal every practice session. Simply record the item and how many minutes spent.

💜Little Prelude in C Major BWV 939 by Johann Sebastian Bach (L. 5, A)

(Approx. 16-20 min each practice session)

1. Each system RH, LH alone, then together - three times correctly and slowly

💚Four Star Sight-reading & Ear Tests Level 5 (IN NEWZIK)

(Approx. 3-5 min each practice session)

1. Complete set 4

   1. Focus on sight-reading. Do them at least three times each correcting your mistakes between tries.

💚The Spice of Life by Tom Gerou (L. 5, C)

(Approx. 9-12 min each practice session)

1. Please spot all blue boxes. Three times correctly every day.

2. M. 11

   1. Please remember the LH G-natural

3. Mm. 25-27

   1. Slow section practice: RH alone, LH alone, HT. With/without/with/without/with music practice.

   2. Combine sections. Continuing to do hands alone then together.

4. MM. 33-34

   1. Slow section practice: RH alone, LH alone, HT. With/without/with/without/with music practice.

   2. Combine sections. Continuing to do hands alone then together.

💚Sight-Reading: Celebrate Piano! Solos 3&4

(Approx. 4-6 min each practice session)

1. Start from p. 91

2. Sight-read 8 measures at a time (repeat the same 8 measures if necessary).

3. Two 8 measure chunks per practice session.

4. Raise your tempo each time if it’s at a fast tempo.

5. PLEASE KEEP A STEADY BEAT AND PLAY THROUGH MISTAKES.

   1. Finished Celebrate Piano Solos 3 on December 12, 2024

💚Sonatina in G Major op. 168 no. 2 by Anton Diabelli (L. 5, B)

1. Learn by writing in as many functional chord symbols as you know.

2. Learn two-four measures at a time.

   1. Blocking LH

   2. RH alone

   3. RH with blocked LH

   4. HT as written.

💜Wet Hands from Minecraft, arr. Torby Brand

💚Level 5 RCM Technique

1. See the highlighted items in your PDF

💚Celebrate Theory: Level 5 Unit 3

1. Prepare pages 10 and 11

1. Mice on Venus from Minecraft, arr. Sam Hodgkinson (P. Choice)

2. List C: Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer (L. 4, C)

3. Etude 1: Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn (L. 4, Etude)

4. Solitude by Joyce Grill (b. 1936) (L. 4, Etude)

Level 4, Practical Test: May 29, 2024

1. List A: Minuet in G Major by J. S. Bach

2. List B: Sonatina in F Major, op. 168 no. 1 “Moderato cantabile” by Anton Diabelli

3. List C: Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer

4. Etude 1: Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn

5. Etude 2: Solitude by Joyce Grill

Level 3, Practical Test: June 2023 ( score of 87)

1. List A: J. S. Bach, Polonaise in F Minor, BWV Anh. 119 (L. 3, A)

2. List B: Sonatina in A Minor op. 94 no. 4 by Albert Biehl (L. 3, B)

3. List C: Wild Mignonette, Op. 205 No. 1 by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901) (L. 3, C)

4. Etude: Burgmuller, Op. 100 No. 2, L’Arabesque (Etude, L. 3)

5. Etude: Prelude VII by Barbara Arens (b. 1960) (L. 3, Etude)