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Beginning piano

Required textbook:  John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course, Book 1 (HL.414014)
 
Instructors:  Dr. Stephen Fiess and Mr. Neal Wegener
Studio: High Range Piano

Syllabus 
Week 1.  Introduction to the piano keyboard
  • Introduction to the music alphabet
  • Introduction to the keyboard (black keys and white keys)
  • Middle “C” introduced on the keyboard
      Introduction to the printed page
  • Introduction to Treble Staff and Bass Staff
  • Introduction of Middle “C” on the Treble Staff and Bass Staff
  • Learning and playing Middle “C” (as a whole note)
Week 2.  Review of Week 1
  • Reviewing Middle “C” as a Treble Staff Note and as a Bass Staff Note
      Introduction of Note Values (Whole Notes, Half Notes, Quarter Notes)
  • Learning and playing Middle “C” with different note values
       Written exercises
  • Introduction to up-stems and down-stems
  • Writing Note Values (Whole Notes, Half Notes, Quarter Notes)
  • Writing Middle “C” as Whole Notes, Half Notes, Quarter Notes
Week 3.  Review of Week 2
  • Playing Middle “C” in various note values (both staffs)
  • Review counting whole notes, half notes, and quarter notes
      Introducing new note “D”
  • Playing and writing right-hand “D”
  • Learning right-hand finger numbers
  • Introducing warmups for all five right-hand fingers
Week 4.  Review of Week 3
  • Playing Middle “C” and Middle “D”
  • Reviewing right hand finger numbers
  • Reviewing warmups for all five right-hand fingers
       Introducing new note “B”
  • Playing and writing left-hand “B”
  • Learning left-hand finger numbers
  • Introducing warmups for all five left-hand fingers
Week 5.  Review of Week 4
  • Review playing left-hand “B”
  • Review left-hand finger numbers
  • Reviewing warmups for all five left-hand fingers
       New song(s), combining Right-Hand “C,” “D,” and Left-Hand “B”    
       Introduction to Counting 2/4 and 3/4 Time Signatures

       Introduction to dotted half-notes
Week 6.  Review of Week 5
  • Review of new song(s), combining Right-Hand “C,” “D,” and Left-Hand “B”
  • Review of Counting 2/4 and 3/4 Time Signatures
  • Review of dotted half-notes
      Introducing new right-hand note “E”
  • Playing and writing right-hand “E”
      Written Exercises
  • Learning to draw measures (bar lines) in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time-signatures.
  • Review of writing right-hand letter names
Week 7.  Review of Week 6
  • Reviewing right-hand note “E”
       Introducing new left-hand note “A”
  • Introducing new left-hand note “A”
  • playing and writing left-hand “A”
       Written Exercises
  • Learning to draw measures (bar lines) in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time-signatures.
  • Review of writing left-hand letter names
 Week 8.  Review of Week 7
  • Review new left-hand note “A”
       Introducing new left-hand note “G”
  • Introducing new left-hand note “G”
  • playing and writing left-hand “G”
Week 9.  Review of Week 8
  • Review of new left-hand note “G”
      New songs using new left-hand note “G”
Week 10.  Review of Week 9
  • Review of songs using new left-hand note “G”
       Introducing new right-hand note “F”
  • Introducing new right-hand note “F”
  • playing and writing right-hand “F”
       Introducing Rests
  • Whole Rests, Half Rests, Quarter Rests
Week 11.  Review of Week 10
  • Reviewing new right-hand note “F”
  • Reviewing rests
      New songs using new right-hand note “F”
      Worksheet on Rests
  • Writing Whole Rests, Half Rests, Quarter Rests
Week 12.  Review of Week 11
  • Review new songs using new right-hand “F”
      Introducing new right-hand note “G”
  • playing and writing new right-hand note “G”
Week 13.  Review of Week 12
  • Review new right-hand note “G”
      Introducing new song(s) using right-hand note “G”
  • saying letters and playing
  • counting and playing
Week 14.  Review of Week 13
  • Reviewing new songs with right-hand note “G”
      Introducing new left-hand note “F”
  • Playing and writing new left-hand note “F”
Week 15.  Review of Week 14
  • Review left-hand note “F”
  • Review songs using left-hand note “F”
      Introducing new song(s) using left-hand note “F”
Week 16.  Summarizing material learned in this course
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