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.
- Passing of the thumb.
- Chord execution
- Major scale structure
- Chromatic scale
- The concept of “speed”
MUSICAL GOALS
- Re-enforcement of the concepts developed in the previous stage
- Intervals
- Major Scales
- Chromatic scale
- Accidentals
- Rests
- Added values (dots)
- Slurs
- Dynamics: forte, mezzo forte, piano.
- Time modifiers: crescendo, diminuendo, rallentando.
- Note values; rhythm; time signatures(2/4,3/4,4/4,6/8).
- Pause.
- Musical forms
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MODULE C: CHORDS
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MODULE D: INTERVALS
In this section we will learn the distances between notes, how to recognise them on the staff and identifying them aurally
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MODULE E- RHYTHM: ADVANCED NOTATION
In this section we will go deeper into the rhythmic notation and the subdivision of the beat
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MODULE F - ACCIDENTALS: SHARPS AND FLATS
In this section we will expand our pitch knowledge of the keyboard with the black keys.
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MODULE G- ARTICULATION AND DYNAMICS
The final section of this Unit is dedicated to develop your expression on the Piano
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