Smart Skills for Piano Beginners

Learn piano from motor, cognitive and auditive skills and build your learning autonomy

Learn the piano and keyboard from cumulative skills that contribute for your independence. The key goal is generously providing you smart effective tools for your active learning. With such tools you will be capable to acquire more information and learn to perform the songs you wish saving your time.

What you’ll learn

  • Piano Initiation.
  • Melody.
  • Accompaniment.
  • Music reading.
  • Piano technique.
  • Musical perception and creation.

Course Content

  • Presentation –> 6 lectures • 12min.
  • Notes and directions –> 5 lectures • 7min.
  • Playing melody –> 3 lectures • 7min.
  • Intervals –> 8 lectures • 21min.
  • Accompanied melody –> 3 lectures • 9min.
  • Chords –> 7 lectures • 15min.
  • Syncopated pedal –> 5 lectures • 10min.
  • Fingering –> 5 lectures • 8min.
  • Intervallic Reading I –> 6 lectures • 8min.
  • Figures and bars –> 6 lectures • 12min.
  • Intervallic Reading II –> 5 lectures • 14min.
  • Chromatic Scale –> 4 lectures • 9min.
  • Clefs and Extended Staff –> 8 lectures • 13min.
  • The C Major Scale –> 6 lectures • 9min.
  • The Grand Staff –> 6 lectures • 7min.
  • Musical Perception I –> 6 lectures • 11min.
  • Reference points: C3 and C5 –> 4 lectures • 3min.
  • The G Major Scale and Study Strategies –> 4 lectures • 8min.
  • Composition I –> 2 lectures • 3min.
  • Musical Perception II –> 5 lectures • 11min.
  • Composition II –> 2 lectures • 2min.
  • Hints and Study Strategies –> 2 lectures • 3min.
  • Conclusion –> 4 lectures • 5min.

Smart Skills for Piano Beginners

Requirements

Learn the piano and keyboard from cumulative skills that contribute for your independence. The key goal is generously providing you smart effective tools for your active learning. With such tools you will be capable to acquire more information and learn to perform the songs you wish saving your time.

The skills featured are: melody, accompaniment, accompanied melody, music reading, piano technique and musical perception and creation. These abilities make learning faster and help learning the songs you wish. You will learn to play piano and music elements, not only to reproduce tunes.

Main themes:

  • basic motions and sound direction
  • hand’s standard position
  • playing melodies and chords
  • intervals and chords,
  • scales
  • sustain pedal
  • reading a sheet music by intervals
  • intervalar reading by reference points
  • polyphony studies (playing hands together)
  • time signatures
  • harmonic, melodic and rhythmic perception
  • composing music ideas

Final Project: learn and play two songs, one from the Middle Ages and one from the Renaissance.

This course promotes a new approach of the music score reading through the intervalar reading and the complementarity of the G, C and F-clefs. You will recognize the instrument’s diverse regions and achieve an intuitive reading without needing to memorise all the note positions. Playing with two hands and Musical Perception also have a special treatment as they constitute common obstacles for piano beginners.

All songs and exercises taught are public domain or authored by the instructor. This course does not violate any copyright law. The soundtrack was recorded with exclusivity and contains folk and classical public domain songs. A soundtrack playlist is provided so you can add it to your own playlist.

The instructor is available to answer students’ questions and help them with their difficulties.

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