June 12, 2025

2025-2026

Jenny RCM Wed July 9 at 6pm

Exam middle of July.

10th Grade in 2024-2025

Technique:

  1. Focus on the minor keys

Musicianship:

  1. Intervals - good

  2. Chords - needs work

  3. Chord progressions - good

  4. Sightplaying - every day work

💜💚Chickadees (L. 7, Etude) Prep 6/10 (instability of memorization)

  1. Slow Work: In sections measures 1-10, 11-18, 18-End.

    1. Close-loud LH when you have running 16ths.

    2. RH close-loud in mm. 11-18 only.

    3. RH, LH, HT Slow slow slow

  2. Medium Tempi: In sections measures 1-10, 11-18, 18-End.

    1. Focus on the expression

    2. Do any “spot” practice during this time.

    3. With and without music. At least three times correctly per section.

  3. Final Tempi: Entire piece

    1. Without music.

    2. Record yourself at least one time. Listen back and mark any problem areas.

    3. Three times.

💚Suite in G Minor, HWV 432: Gigue, by Handel (L. 7, A) 7/10 (tempo, memorization, expression)

  1. Slow Work: In sections, measures 1-4, 5-8, 9-13, and 14 to the end.

    1. Close-loud RH, LH, HT each day.

    2. Remember close-loud is each note strong.

  2. Medium Tempi: Using the same sections, practice the following tempi - don’t move on until the previous one is correct. Do with and without music.

    1. mm 56, 63, 69, 72, 76

  3. Final Tempi: Entire piece.

    1. m.m. 76, 80 and 84

    2. Play through without stopping as if it was recital. Take note of any issues and practice them the next day.

💚Halley’s Comet by Nancy Telfer (b. 1950) (Level 7, Etude)

  1. Finish learning to the end.

  2. Fix transitions.

💛Sonata in C Minor Op. 17 No. 2. III. Prestissimo by Johann Christian Bach (L. 7, B) 1/10 (finish learning)

  1. Boxed areas - each day.

  2. Continue to speed-build.

💜💚Consolation, op. 30, no. 3 by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) (L. 7, C) 8/10 (confidence in memorization, expression)

  1. Slow Work: In sections measures 1-11, 11-17, 18-End.

    1. RH, LH, HT each day.

  2. Medium Tempi: In sections measures 1-11, 11-17, 18-End.

    1. Focus on the expression

    2. Do any “spot” practice during this time.

    3. With and without music. At least three times correctly per section.

  3. Final Tempi: Entire piece

    1. Without music.

    2. Record yourself at least one time. Listen back and mark any problem areas.

    3. Three times.

💚Four Star Level 7 (7/10) more general work

  1. Finish Set 7-8

  2. 💛Work on interval recognition a bit.

  3. 💛Playbacks need a bit of work

💛Technique: Level 7 RCM (6/10) finish going through everything

  1. See the blue highlights.

  2. See the Technique BSB Major and Minor PDFs for fingering help (arpeggios)

  3. Break up the items so you’re going back and forth between them within one practice session. Don’t spend too long on one at a time.

🖤Celebrate Theory: Level 7: Unit 2

  1. Prepare pages 12-14

🖤Sight-reading: (at least 5 min a day - set a timer) left off on p. 16

  1. PAUSED:

    1. Tchaikovsky, Album for the Young, Op. 39 (left off on p. 27) (paused 11//23/2024)

  2. FINISHED:

    1. Burgmuller, Op. 100 (left off on p. 32) (9/10/2024)

💚Review once a week with your music at a medium tempo.

Billy Joel: The Piano Man (L. 7, Popular Selection)

Christmas Time is Here - Charlie Brown Duet

River City Blues (b. 1936) (L. 6, Etude)

Aria in G Major by Telemann (L. 6, A)

Chopin Waltz in A minor (L. 6, C)

Diabelli, Sonatina in F Major, op. 168 No. 1: Rondo (L. 6, B)

Princess Mononoke L. 6, Etude (popular selection)

💚River City Blues (b. 1936) (L. 6, Etude)

BAROQUE

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

  1. March in D Major, BWV Anh. 122 (L. 4, A)

Georg Friederic Handel

  1. 💚Air in B-flat Major, HWV 471 (L. 4, A)

CLASSICAL

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)

  1. Sonatina in C Major Op. 36 No. 1

    1. I: Allegro (L. 3, B)

  2. 💚Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2,

    1. III: Allegro (L. 4, B)

  3. Sonatina in G Major, Op. 36 No. 5,

    1. III: Rondo: allegro molto (L. 5, B)

Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713 - 1780)

  1. 💚Harlequinade (L. 3, A)

ROMANTIC

Rohde, Dance of the Dragonflies, Op. 76 No. 7 (L. 5, Etude)

Harmony of Angels, Burgmuller, Op. 100 No. 21 (L. 5, Etude)

Robert Schumann

  1. 💚The Happy Farmer (L. 4, C)

Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmuller (1806-1874)

  1. 💚L’Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2 (L. 3 Etude)

Tchaikovsky

  1. 💚Old French Song Op. 39 No. 16 (L. 4, C)

20TH AND 21ST CENTURY

Anne Crosby-Gaudet

  1. 💚Dream Catcher by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 4, C)

Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)

  1. Folk Dance Op. 39 No. 7 (L. 4, Etude)

Yoshinao Nakada

  1. 💚Song of the Twilight (L. 3, C)

Lina Niamath (1939-)

  1. 💚Masquerade (L. 4, Etude)

Martha Mier (b. 1936)

  1. 💜River City Blues (b. 1936) (L. 6, Etude)

Mike Springer

  1. Foggy Day Blues (L. 4, C)

  2. Sunset in Rio (L. 5, C)


  1. Online Ear Training and Rhythm

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

    2. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

    3. Login Info:

      1. info@gledhillartscollective.com

      2. dust2789

  2. Four Star Sightreading & Ear Tests Level 4

    1. Doesn’t have level 4

    2. Start with Dustin after Masquerade is finished.