January 26, 2021

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

🟢 - on the right track, great work!

🟡 - on the right track but it needs more work

🔴 - needs lots of attention and work

⚫️ - no assignment - don’t practice this item.

🟣 - We didn’t get to this item,

TECHNIQUE

  1. IN NEWZIK: Level 2

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    1. Prepare in your head before you begin.

    2. Relearn your fingering

    3. Practice each scale in each hand, three times correctly, five times a week.

    4. Look in your Newzik app for the RCM Syllabus.

      1. Do the blue items.

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. Four Star Sightreading & Ear Tests Level 3 (IN NEWZIK)

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    1. FOUR STAR 03 02

      1. Do two the rhythm and sightreading examples each day.

  2. Online Ear Training and Rhythm Level 3

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    1. https://moodle.rcmusic.com/lms/my/

    2. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

    3. Login Info:

      1. info@gledhillartscollective.com

      2. dust2789

THEORY

  1. Celebrate Theory: Level 3, Unit 6

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  1. Piano Adventures Sightreading Level 2A in Newzik

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    1. Move on from page 31

    2. Use a metronome the first time, then turn it off and do it again.

    3. Set a tempo by finding the shortest note-value first. Imagine yourself playing that section no faster than you think you can sightread. That’s your tempo.

REPERTOIRE

  1. *(Recital) The Sparking Brook by Margaret Goldstone (1923-2003)

    1. SPOT: 3 x’s in-a-row correctly each of the following sections, EVERY DAY:

      1. Repeat sign in m. 8. Start from the beginning, do the repeat and play until m. 9.

      2. M. 24: rhythm (rest)

      3. mm. 33 - end: play with the recording in Newzik. Count. See blue pen.

    2. Practice starting from any measure of the piece. (5 different measure numbers, each practice session).

    3. CLOSE LOUD: hands together, m.m. 60 per 8th note.

      1. once every practice session, entire piece.

  2. *(Recital) Feelin’ Good (L. 2, B)

    1. SPOT: 3 x’s in-a-row correctly each of the following sections, EVERY DAY:

      1. Mm. 11-16: hands alone, then together at m.m. 88 per quarter note.

      2. mm. 22-end: fix the rhythm.

    2. Practice starting from any measure of the piece. (5 different measure numbers, each practice session).

  3. (Recital) Ecossaise in G Major (L. 2 List A)

    1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece. (5 different measure numbers, each practice session).

    2. SPOT: mm. 12-End, hands alone, then together.

    3. Use metronome while you practice.

  4. (Recital) Gavotte in G Major by George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)(L. 2, A)

    1. For every 4 measures, do the following, EVERY practice session:

      1. Slow Work: m.m. 60, CLOSE LOUD, per 8th note

        1. LH alone

        2. RH alone

        3. Hands Together

      2. Medium Tempos: mm. 50, 54, 58, 63, including all of NFRPE, per quarter note.

        1. 3 times in-a-row correctly, each 4 measures.

      3. Final Tempo: work up to m.m. 80 per quarter note if you can.

  5. Future Repertoire:

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    1. Gigue a l’Angloise by Georg Philip Telemann (1681-1767) (L. 2, A)

    2. Musette in D Major by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1759) (L. 2, A)

🔴Repertoire for Review: use your music!

  1. Etude in F Major, Op. 190 No. 27 by Christian Louis Heinrich Köhler (1820-1886)(L. 2, A)

  2. Christina Louis Heinrich Köhler (1820-1886)

    1. 🟢Etude in F Major, Op. 190 No. 27 (L. 2, A)

  3. Margaret Goldston (1932-2003)

    1. 🟢Sparkling Brook (L. 2, B)

  4. Melody Bobber (1955- )

    1. I Spy (L. 2, B)

  5. Anne Crosby-Gaudet

    1. Periwinkle Twinkle (L. 2 B)

  6. Christopher Norton

    1. Half Asleep (L. 2, B)

    2. 🟢Feelin’ Good (L. 2, B)

  7. Nancy Telfer

    1. The Silent Moon (L. 2 List B)

  8. L. V. Beethoven

    1. , 🟢Ecossaise in G Major (L. 2 List A)

  9. Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

  10. Teresa Richert (b. 1954)

    1. 🔴🟣Far Away (L. 1, Etude)

  11. Franz Josef Haydn(1732-1809)