July 2, 2025

2025-2026

Jenny RCM Wed July 9 at 6pm

Exam middle of July.

Jenny leaves for the semester August 20th-December 3rd

10th Grade in 2024-2025

🟥Technique:

  1. Most of your speeds are under tempo. Please double check our final tempo markings.

  2. For each item:

    1. Block if needed

    2. Close-loud

    3. Speed-build to three times correctly each item.

🟥Chickadees (L. 7, Etude)

  1. Play with the music for the exam,

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

  1. Don’t go faster than m.m. 60.

  2. They want to hear an expansive sound - etherial.

  3. Fix the note in the red highlights.

  4. Spot measures 11-15 - three times correctly in-a-row.

  5. Fix the timing at the end.

🟥Suite in G Minor, HWV 432: Gigue, by Handel (L. 7, A)

  1. 🎨 Color-Focus Practice (NFPER)

    At the top of your music, write NFPER using the following color system:

    • N – Notes – correct pitches and accidentals (🟦 Blue)

    • F – Fingering – consistent, effective finger choices (🟧 Orange)

    • P – Position – hand shape, posture, and keyboard geography (🟪 Purple)

    • E – Expression – phrasing, dynamics, articulation, tone, etc. (🟩 Green)

    • R – Rhythm – steady pulse, accurate timing, and rests (🟥 Red)

    ✅ If you're only recording audio, just use NER.

    Step-by-Step Practice Flow

    1. Identify a section to record

    2. Record your section once — video is best, but audio is fine too.

    3. Listen back with one color/goal in mind.

    4. As you listen, mark your music using that color anywhere it needs improvement.

    5. Repeat for each remaining color, one at a time, until all five have been addressed.

    6. Choose a small “spot” section from your markings to fix.

    “Spot” until it’s solid — meaning:

    • ✅ 3 times in a row correctly, or

    • ✅ 5 total correct repetitions, then move on.

    1. Focus on one or two colors at a time while practicing that spot.

    2. Use the troubleshooting checklist below if you're stuck.

    🔧 Troubleshooting Tips

    🎯 If you’ve tried to fix something three times in-a-row and it’s still not working, don’t just repeat it — troubleshoot:

    • Do you need to slow down?

    • Should you practice hands alone?

    • Could you make the spot even smaller?

    • Would technical exercises help (staccato, accents, etc.)?

    • Do you need to think ahead more clearly?

    • Do you need blocking practice?

🟥Sonata in C Minor Op. 17 No. 2. III. Prestissimo by Johann Christian Bach (L. 7, B)

  1. 🎨 Color-Focus Practice (NFPER)

    At the top of your music, write NFPER using the following color system:

    • N – Notes – correct pitches and accidentals (🟦 Blue)

    • F – Fingering – consistent, effective finger choices (🟧 Orange)

    • P – Position – hand shape, posture, and keyboard geography (🟪 Purple)

    • E – Expression – phrasing, dynamics, articulation, tone, etc. (🟩 Green)

    • R – Rhythm – steady pulse, accurate timing, and rests (🟥 Red)

    ✅ If you're only recording audio, just use NER.

    Step-by-Step Practice Flow

    1. Identify a section to record

    2. Record your section once — video is best, but audio is fine too.

    3. Listen back with one color/goal in mind.

    4. As you listen, mark your music using that color anywhere it needs improvement.

    5. Repeat for each remaining color, one at a time, until all five have been addressed.

    6. Choose a small “spot” section from your markings to fix.

    “Spot” until it’s solid — meaning:

    • ✅ 3 times in a row correctly, or

    • ✅ 5 total correct repetitions, then move on.

    1. Focus on one or two colors at a time while practicing that spot.

    2. Use the troubleshooting checklist below if you're stuck.

    🔧 Troubleshooting Tips

    🎯 If you’ve tried to fix something three times in-a-row and it’s still not working, don’t just repeat it — troubleshoot:

    • Do you need to slow down?

    • Should you practice hands alone?

    • Could you make the spot even smaller?

    • Would technical exercises help (staccato, accents, etc.)?

    • Do you need to think ahead more clearly?

    • Do you need blocking practice?

🟥Consolation, op. 30, no. 3 by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) (L. 7, C)

  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

  1. Finish Set 7-8

  2. 💛Work on interval recognition a bit.

  3. 💛Playbacks need a bit of work

🟥Technique: Level 7 RCM

  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

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    2. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

    3. Login Info:

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      2. dust2789

  2. Four Star Sightreading & Ear Tests Level 4

    1. Doesn’t have level 4

    2. Start with Dustin after Masquerade is finished.