RCMCP: Level 3 Spring

Lesson Assignments:

*Celebrate Theory: Level 2
1. *FINISH UNIT 2
2. *PREPARE: Unit 3
3. PREPARE: Unit 4, pages 33-35 and more if you can.

Four Star Sightreading & Ear Tests Level 3
1. PREPARE: Set 9
2. Test next week with Dustin
Sightreading 3A
1. Continue on

*Burgmuller Op. 100 No. 2 (L. 3 Etude)
1. Goal: hands together entire piece in slow-motion practice.
2. Practice hands together in slow-mo, three times correctly in chunks, three days in-a-row.
3. Then you can spend the remaining practice days reviewing what you’ve done.
Harlequinade by Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713 - 1780) (L. 3, A)
1. Review with your music, slowly, once each week.
2. Then play up to tempo without your music.
Minuet in E-flat Major by Johann Mattheson (1681 - 1764) (L. 3, A)
1. Review with your music, slowly, once each week.
2. Then play up to tempo without your music.
Sonatina in C Major Op. 36 No. 1 by Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) (L. 3, B)
1. Technical practice:
  1. To make your scales even and smooth:
    1. Accent practice (every other note, two ways)
    2. Rhythm practice, Long (close loud) Short (fast and light), Long, Short, etc.
    3. Rhythm practice, same as no. 2 but opposite.
*Song of the Twilight by Yoshinao Nakada (L. 3, C)
1. fix Fingering and notes.
2. speed build

Close Loud
1. With each note, keep your fingers close to the keyboard and pop your wrist up to help release the tension created when you hit the key with force!
Rhythms (Long, short, short, Long, short, short. etc.)
1. The long notes are strong like “close loud,” and the short notes are light and played as quickly as possible, THINKING about going to the next long note.
Accent Practice
1. Accent one note in a group and practice alternating the note that receives the accent.
Staccato Practice
Double Note Practice
Slo-Mo Practice