PIANO – Beginners course – UNIT 2

Ready to continue? so far we have learned the basics of piano technique, notation and rhythm. In this Unit, we will go beyond and acquire the necessary topics to approach, study and learn play Classical and modern pieces on your own.

Hands to work!

Piano Lessons for Beginners Level II

BASIC GOALS

• Perfect and develop the skills acquired at the previous level in Unit 1
• Articulations: legato, portato, staccato.
• Dynamics: forte, piano, foreground and background.
• The passing of the thumb 
• Chord execution
• Major scale structure
• The concept of “speed”
• Dotted values

MUSICAL GOALS

• Re-enforcement of the concepts:
• Intervals
• Major Scales
• Accidentals
• Rests
• Slurs and Ties
• Dynamics: forte, mezzo forte, piano.
• Time modifiers: crescendo, diminuendo, rallentando.
• Note values; rhythm; time signatures (2/4,3/4,4/4,6/8).
• Pause (fermata)
• Quavers, Semiquavers and Triplets
• Musical forms