2026-2027 Events
October 17-18, 2026 — Group Classes
December 5-6, 2026 — Group Classes
January 24, 2027 — Performance Class & Guest Artist Workshop
February 27-28, 2027 — Group Classes
April 10-11, 2027 — Group Classes
May 22, 2027 — Student Final Recital
How to Practice
Use the Practice Tools panel below. It logs your practice for you — no comments needed.
Press Start here. It picks up where you stopped last time.
Read the assignment, press Start, practice.
Tap the kind of practice — learning, spotting, memorizing, polishing, run-through or review — then press Done.
Press Next practice item and go again.
Capped items count down and chime. Keep going if it's going well.
Got something to say about an assignment? Paste the line it gives you into the comments and add your note.
Also in the panel: a metronome, a spotting counter, and recording.
Log only what you actually did, on the day you did it. Five minutes is a real entry. Logging starts October 1.
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[PRACTICE TOOLS]
We are not doing RCM going forward. The plan is repertoire, transcription and some technical work you actually want to play.
You said about 45 minutes a day is realistic with school. That is what this list is built for. A little more on the weekends if you have it.
Musicianship
1. 🟩 Listening — 25 Études faciles et progressives, Op. 100 and 18 Études de genre, Op. 109 (Burgmüller)
Listen to these eight, several times each, and come back next week with the one you want to learn.
Op. 109, No. 5
Op. 109, No. 10
Op. 109, No. 13
Op. 109, No. 18
Op. 100, No. 6
Op. 100, No. 11
Op. 100, No. 12
Op. 100, No. 20 (Tarantella)
You are listening for arpeggio and scale writing, something fast, something major. If none of them grab you, say so and I will write you an etude instead.
Repertoire
If I Am With You — one measure at a time, mm. 9 to 15. Right hand alone all the way through NFPER, then left hand alone the same way, three correct in a row each, then hands together. Watch the note alignment between the hands. Use the spotting tools in the panel.
2. 🟩 If I Am With You, m. 9
Right hand alone through NFPER, left hand alone through NFPER, then hands together.
3. 🟩 If I Am With You, m. 10
Same process. Three correct in a row before you move on.
4. 🟩 If I Am With You, m. 11
Same process.
5. 🟩 If I Am With You, m. 12
Same process.
6. 🟩 If I Am With You, m. 13
Same process.
7. 🟩 If I Am With You, mm. 14-15
Same process, two measures this time.
Page one is done apart from its last measure. Keep the wrist up on the thumb in the arpeggios.
8. 🟪 Somewhere Only We Know
The transcription is finished apart from the last few measures. We will pick it up next time.
Measures 25-32 — bass staff alternative textures. We talked through some ideas; they are not in yet.
Measures 49-53 — add some bass notes.
9. 🟪 Les Misérables, I Dreamed a Dream, mm. 23-38
Bonus assignment, open ended. Only if you want it this week.
Learn mm. 23-24 slowly first, then work the speed up until it runs with no pauses.
Up Next
Your Burgmüller piece, chosen from the listening list.
Some note reading exercises, since finding the notes is slowing you down.
Review List
Mozart Sonata, No. 11 in A Major, III. Rondo: Alla Turca (recital)
Like Him (recital piece)
Mice on Venus from Minecraft, arr. Sam Hodgkinson (P. Choice)
List C: Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer (L. 4, C)
Etude 1: Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn (L. 4, Etude)
Solitude by Joyce Grill (b. 1936) (L. 4, Etude)
RCM Exam Archive
Level 4, Practical Test: May 29, 2024
List A: Minuet in G Major by J. S. Bach
List B: Sonatina in F Major, op. 168 no. 1 "Moderato cantabile" by Anton Diabelli
List C: Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer
Etude 1: Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn
Etude 2: Solitude by Joyce Grill
Level 3, Practical Test: June 2023 (score of 87)
List A: J. S. Bach, Polonaise in F Minor, BWV Anh. 119 (L. 3, A)
List B: Sonatina in A Minor op. 94 no. 4 by Albert Biehl (L. 3, B)
List C: Wild Mignonette, Op. 205 No. 1 by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901) (L. 3, C)
Etude: Burgmuller, Op. 100 No. 2, L'Arabesque (Etude, L. 3)
Etude: Prelude VII by Barbara Arens (b. 1960) (L. 3, Etude)