September 20, 2023

9th Grade in 2023-2024

2023 Fall Milestones

  1. Finalized October 2, 2023

  2. Draft Ideas

    1. New repertoire

    2. RCM Level 6

    3. Level 5 Theory Test RCM

    4. Performance Class December 10, 2023

    5. Video / Audio

    6. 💚Chamber music: check in with your friend to see if she wants to do a piano / violin duo.

❤️Make a comment in the comment section below about what you practiced and for how long, every time you practice.

RCMCP

Level 5: Spring 2023, Score of 82

  1. 🖤HANON No. 8 in C Major (at least 5-10 min a day)

    1. Start with Close Loud

    2. Then alternate the following techniques throughout the week:

      1. Staccato

      2. Accent Practice (every other note, then alternate)

      3. Rhythm Practice (long, long, short, short, then alternate)

      4. Articulation Practice (staccato, staccato, legato, legato, then alternate)

      5. Sprint Practice (Long and several shorts)

    3. Then legato and speed-build. Start at m.m. 80 per quarter note and work up to mm. 104 per quarter

      1. No. 7: 104 per quarter note

      2. No. 6: 104 per quarter note

      3. No. 5: 104 per quarter note

      4. NO. 4: 126 per quarter note.

  2. 💜RCMCP Technique Level 6 (at least 5 min a day)

    1. Prepare the highlighted items

      1. Hands alone first, then together, close loud, staccato (tap from above the key with loose wrist).

    2. See the fingering in the BSB Scale PDF as needed

  1. 💚Celebrate Theory: Level 5 (by November 1st)

    1. Review the unites in Newzik and then take exam online through this link:

    2. https://www.rcmusic.com/courses/music-theory-level-5-online

  1. 💜Sight-reading: (at least 5 min a day - set a timer)

    1. The Greatest Showman, A Million Dreams: Sight-read until you can play it confidently. Do 1-2 pages at a time, then repeat two more times.

  2. 💜Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 6

    1. COMPLETE Review Set 1

  3. Playbacks by playing the add-on game, creating a two-part melody.

REPERTOIRE

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

    1. Mm. 1-24

      1. Fix any markings and continue to practice hands alone and together as needed.

    2. mm. 25-40

      1. Learn LH alone first (bass notes only, then chords, then bass and chords)

      2. Memorize RH melody (test next week).

      3. Hands together (Bass notes only (with correct fingers) and RH melody)

      4. Hands together (LH chords only with RH melody)

      5. Hands together (complete)

    3. RH melody - always in focus. THink of close-loud but getting there from left to right instead of forward motion.

  2. 💚River City Blues by Martha Bier (b. 1936) (L. 6, Etude)

    1. Work on making sure all of the notes are correct (new green highlights).

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

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)

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.