This course is an extension to Fundamentals of Piano which was essentially designed to teach piano from scratch. Students can not directly join this course and must have a strong foundation in their basic knowledge of the instrument if they wish to join this course.
Course Format
This is a 12-week course where the student gets one weekly lesson for 12 weeks.
Objectives
The objective is to make you love your instrument and make piano learning easy for you. Learning piano should feel like a treat to you.
Students who wish to join this course must have a strong foundation in the following concepts:
- Piano and its parts
- Piano posture
- Naming piano keys and numbering fingers
- Musical Beat
- Beats and Rhythm
- Time signature
- Quarter, Half, Dotted half, and Whole notes
- Coordinating both hands
- Basics of sight reading
- Songs with simple rhythms
- Finger exercises for piano
- Quarter Rests
- Half Rests
- Whole Rests
Concepts covered
- Slurs lines and Ties
- Intervals- Skips and Steps
- Triads- Blocked and broken
- Body Percussion
- Similar motion & Contrary motion
- D.C Al Fine
- Some musicians and their bio
- Eighth note
- Ritardando
- Accents
- Upbeat and Downbeat
- Hanon's Exercise
- Piano Dynamics
- Repeats with two endings
- Tempo- Allegretto
- Two Thumbs on C
After this course, the student will be able to:
- Learn and identify 2/4 time signatures
- Learn and identify slur lines
- Compose something on a given rhythm
- Learn and identify steps, skips, and intervals on a sheet. (2nds/3rds/4ths and 5ths melodic and harmonic)
- Learn and identify triads
- Learn and identify similar and contrary motion
- Understand “D C al fine”
- Perform body percussion
- Learn and identify ties and slurs
- Learn, identify, and clap eighth notes
- Learn and identify ritardando
