Musical Instruments Courses

Guitar for Beginners

21 reviews

Grasp the essentials needed to begin playing acoustic or electric guitar. You'll learn an easy approach to get you playing quickly, through a combination of exploring the instrument, performance technique, and basic music theory. For students who have l…

• Coursera
• 24 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 3rd Oct, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The New World of Arnold Schönberg's Piano Music

This course will introduce you to the solo piano works of Arnold Schönberg (including the Three Piano Pieces (Opus 11), Six Little Piano Pieces (Opus 19), Five Piano Pieces (Opus 23), Suite for Piano (Opus 25), and Piano Pieces (Opus 33a & b). Schönb…

• edX
• 5-10 hours a week, 10 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Guitar Scales and Chord Progressions

360 ratings at Coursera

You’ve got the guitar basics down: You can strum your guitar and play a few of your favorite songs, but you’re ready to take the tunes to the next level. In Guitar Scales and Chord Progressions you’ll expand your knowledge of scales, chord fingerings, an…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 1 week from now (17th Oct)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Guitar Chord Voicings: Playing Up The Neck

45 ratings at Coursera

Whether you’re just picking up the guitar for the first time or you’ve been playing the guitar for years and want to take your playing to the next level, Guitar Chords 101 will help you develop a deeper knowledge and understanding of chords. Guitar Chord…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 2 days from now (10th Oct)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Curtis

Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Part 2

150 ratings at Coursera

Welcome to Part 2 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas! I'm delighted to launch another set of new lectures of this course as Part 2. As before, this class is meant for people of all levels of experience with Beethoven's music (including no experience…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 2 days from now (10th Oct)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Curtis

Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas

15 reviews

Our relationship to Beethoven is a deep and paradoxical one. For many musicians, he represents a kind of holy grail: His music has an intensity, rigor, and profundity which keep us in its thrall, and it is perhaps unequalled in the interpretive, technica…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 12 weeks long
• 3rd Oct, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Curtis

Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 6

Welcome to Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 6! You’re joining thousands of learners currently enrolled in the course. I'm excited to have you in the class and look forward to your contributions to the learning community. To begin, I recommend ta…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 2 days from now (10th Oct)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Curtis

Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 4

58 ratings at Coursera

Please join us for Part 4 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas course, taught by Curtis faculty member and extraordinary concert artist, Jonathan Biss. This course is new and contains separate sets of lectures and sonatas that we not previously discuss…

• Coursera
• 5-6 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 6 days from now (14th Oct)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Andy Guitar

Guitar Strumming Course

3 reviews

How to hold a guitar, strumming techniques, patterns, and exercises for various music styles.

• YouTube
• 1-2 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Hoffman Academy

Beginning Piano Unit 1

Welcome to Hoffman Academy Unit 1! If you're an absolute beginner at music and piano, then this is the place to start.

• YouTube
• 3-4 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Reinventing the Piano

4 reviews

The piano remains one of the great achievements of musical instrument design and has long served as a primary creative tool for musicians worldwide. In this course, we will look at how the piano’s design touches on a range of diverse topics, like: where…

• Kadenze
• 5 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

The Piano Sonata: Origins to Mozart

In this course, you’ll be introduced to sonata form; how it works, where it came from, and how sonatas are put together as multi-movement compositions. We will analyze the early history of the piano sonata and discover the important early masters of this…

• Coursera
• 10 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 3rd Oct, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Piano Sonata: Beethoven and the Romantics

In this course, learners will review sonata form and learn how the piano sonata was taken to new heights by Ludwig van Beethoven. We’ll discover together how the generation that followed interpreted Beethoven’s achievements and put them into practice in…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 3rd Oct, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Piano Sonata: Russian and 20th-21st Century Composers

In this course, you’ll review sonata form and learn how the piano sonata was revitalized in the 20th century, with a particular attention to composers from Russia, where the sonata was an especially popular and successful genre. You’ll study some of the…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 3rd Oct, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Andy Guitar

Play 5 EASY Christmas Songs on Guitar

Syllabus: 1 - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer . 2 - Jingle Bells . 3 - Deck The Halls . 4 - We Wish You A Merry Christmas . 5 - 12 Days Of Christmas .

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course