Experience hands-on lessons from a master piano instructor as you explore the building blocks of music.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Basic Piano Rhythm and Fingering
- 02: Pitch and Off-Staff Notation
- 03: Tonic and Dominant Harmony
- 04: Intervals and Basic Notation
- 05: Major Chords and Simple Accompaniment
- 06: Fourths, Accidentals, and Relaxation
- 07: Primary Chords
- 08: Transposition at the Piano
- 09: Chord Inversions
- 10: Chord Progressions and Arpeggios
- 11: Accompaniment Patterns and Sight-Reading
- 12: Harmonization and Damper Pedal
- 13: Minor Finger Patterns and Chords
- 14: Articulation: Legato and Staccato
- 15: One-Octave Major Scales and Major Intervals
- 16: Dotted Rhythms and Isolated Repetition
- 17: Secondary Chords and More Dotted Rhythms
- 18: Sixteenth Notes and More Secondary Chords
- 19: Compound Meter and Technique
- 20: Parallel Major and Minor Keys
- 21: Three Forms of the Minor Scale and Syncopation
- 22: Artistic Expression and More Minor Keys
- 23: The Classical Period and Fortepianos
- 24: Seventh Chords and Sonata Form
- 25: Sight-Reading and Technique
- 26: The Romantic Period and Seventh-Chord Arpeggios
- 27: Extended Arpeggios and Pianist as Artist
- 28: More Romantic Repertoire
- 29: Sonata Form Revisited
- 30: The Baroque Era and Harpsichords
- 31: Baroque Repertoire
- 32: Deliberate Practice and Learning Music
- 33: The 20th Century and Modern Music
- 34: Chorale-Style Repertoire
- 35: Impressionism and the Una Corda Pedal
- 36: Triplets and Continuing Piano Study
Taught by
Pamela D. Pike, PhD