Novices are developing rudimentary technique. They can play with a decent sound, are able to demonstrate abdominal breathing, and are learning to read music.
Etudes
Solos with Piano
Objectives
Promotion
- Getchell: Practical Studies, Book 2
- Pottag-Hovey: Method, Book 2
- Maxime-Alphonse: Book 1 (1-30)
- Miersch: Melodious Studies
Solos with Piano
- Bacon: Selected Songs, Vol. 1
- Bakaleinikoff: Canzona
- Beethoven/Poole: Andromeda
- Effinger: Rondino
- Purcell/Jones: I Attempt From Love’s Sickness to Fly
- Ployhar: The Hunt
- 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
- F3 to G5
- Scales: Major (1 or 2 octaves - C, F, Bb, Eb, G, D, A)
- Rudimentary ability to read music on sightDemonstrate staccato, tenuto and marcato articulation