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.
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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
Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 22 Lessons
- 24 Weeks
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- MODULE C: CHORDS3
- MODULE D: INTERVALSIn this section we will learn the distances between notes, how to recognise them on the staff and identifying them aurally4
- MODULE E- RHYTHM: ADVANCED NOTATIONIn this section we will go deeper into the rhythmic notation and the subdivision of the beat6
- MODULE F - ACCIDENTALS: SHARPS AND FLATSIn this section we will expand our pitch knowledge of the keyboard with the black keys.5
- MODULE G- ARTICULATION AND DYNAMICSThe final section of this Unit is dedicated to develop your expression on the Piano4
