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