Smart Skills for Piano Beginners
Learn piano and keyboard with this comprehensive course. Develop skills in melody, accompaniment, music reading, technique, and more. Play songs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Suitable for young people and adults interested in classical music. Instructor support available.
What you’ll learn
- Piano Initiation
- Melody
- Accompaniment
- Music reading
- Piano technique
- Musical perception and creation
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.
Who this course is for:
- Young people and adults interested in learning piano and classical music
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