Overview
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Explore the fundamentals of playing piano. Learn about sitting, hand position, reading notes, playing chords, melodic intervals, harmonic intervals, triads, progressions, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Seating position and proper hand technique
- The keyboard
- Right-hand C position
- Quarter notes and half notes
- Left-hand C position
- The whole note
- The grand staff
- Melodic intervals: 2nds
- Melodic intervals: 3rds
- Melodic intervals: 4ths
- Melodic intervals: 5ths
- Harmonic intervals: 2nds and 3rds
- Harmonic intervals: 4ths and 5ths
- The sharp sign
- The C major chord
- B for the left hand
- B for the right hand
- 3/4 time and dotted half notes
- A for the left hand
- The damper pedal
- Eighth notes
- The dotted quarter note
- Intervals: 6ths
- Syncopated notes
- Moving up and down the keyboard in 6ths
- Intervals: 7ths and octaves
- The flat sign
- Measuring half steps and whole steps
- The major scale
- More about chords
- About the blues
- RH: An extended position
- The G major scale
- Triads and progressions
- A new style of bass
- Eighth note triplets
- Closing and credits
