Developing rudimentary technique. Able to play with a good sound, demonstrate abdominal breathing, and are able to read music proficiently.
Etudes
Solos with Piano
Objectives
Promotion
- Getchell: Practical Studies, Book 2
- Maxime-Alphonse: Book 1 (1-35)
- Miersch: Melodious Studies
- Kopprasch: 60 Etudes (1-10)
- Schantl: 120 Melodic Pieces (1-30)
- Wilder: Little Detective Suites
Solos with Piano
- Effinger: Rondino
- Fauré/Bacon: Pie Jesu
- Gluck/Bacon: Dance of the Blessed Spirits
- Grieg/Bacon: Solvejg's Song
- Mendelssohn/Bacon: On Wings of Songs
- Mendelssohn/Bacon: There I Lay Under the Trees
- Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 1
- Mozart/Bacon: Là ci darem la mano
- Purcell/Jones: I Attempt From Love’s Sickness to Fly
- Rachmaninov/Voxman: Vocalise
- Schubert/Bacon: Morning Greeting
- Schumann/Bacon: Wanderer's Song
- Scriabin: Romance
Objectives
- Average 4 hours of weekly practice
- Basic practice strategies and goal setting
- Basic warm up
- Rudimentary phrasing
- Slurred and tongued articulation
- Discernible dynamic range from piano to forte
- Memorize all fingerings
Promotion
- C2 to A5
- Scales: Major (1 or 2 octaves - C, F, Bb, Eb, G, D, A)
- Rudimentary ability to read music on sight. Demonstrate staccato, tenuto and marcato articulation