Piano Skills

A brief description about some of the curriculum used for each grade level.

PIANO SKILLS

3rd & 4th grade

This curriculum is unique because it mixes different skills, creating a multilevel environment. This book series engages each student with the goal of making music together as a full class as the focus! Even though we will be at different levels we will still be making music together which will help the students learn harmony, rhythm, dynamics, and musicianship.

P - prep pianist

1 - level 1 pianist

2- level 2 pianist

3 - level 3 pianist

Proper sitting/playing position
Proper hand position
Finger number knowledge
Black keys - groups of 2's, 3's, then together
Rhythm understanding of quarter note/rest, half note/rest, dotted half note, whole note/rest
locate and identify white keys
recite music alphabet
5 finger scale patterns
Beginning to read the notes on the staff.

Plays in the C major and middle C position, reading the notes.
Tempo/metronome practice
Music Alphabet - up and down
Locate and name all white keys on piano
Counts and plays pieces with quarter, half, dotted half, and whole notes.
Plays one octave scales hands separately
plays with alternating hands.

Plays in C, G and D positions, reading the notes
counts and plays pieces with eighth notes.
Plays one octave scales hands separately
Learning to play hands together, reading treble and bass clef notes.

Reads all notes on treble and bass clef.
Counts and plays pieces with eigth notes.
Plays one octave scales, hands together
Plays late elementary piano repertoire.

2nd grade Piano Skills

This curriculum was designed specifically for young students who are beginning piano study in a group setting. Students will be placed in either Book 1 or Book 2 depending on their piano skills/level of playing.

Here are some basic skills that are mastered with each level:

BOOK 1

proper sitting/hand position
finger number idenfication
black key groups (2's and 3's)
rhythmic reading with quarter, half and whole notes.
naming white keys
middle C position

BOOK 2

Learning the grand staff
playing in steps/skips
Rhythmic reading with quarter, half, dotted half and whote notes/Rests
C position (C 5 finger scale)
intervals (2nd - 5th)
harmonic notes

Kinder and 1st grade - piano skills

Kindergarten

A fun course to bring out the music in every student!

Lesson Book 1 is pre-reading. Concepts taught are: How to sit at the piano; Correct hand position; High and low; Loud and soft (forte and piano); Keyboard topography; Bar line and measure, Quarter, half, whole notes and rests; and Repeat signs. The first pieces in the book are played on the black keys. Later in the book, C D E for the RH and C B A for the LH (Middle C position) are taught with letter notes (the name of the note is written inside the note head).

1st grade

A fun course to bring out the music in every student!

Lesson Book 2 starts as pre-reading, then moves to reading on the staff. After a review, the new concepts taught are: Dotted quarter note and 4/4 time, 4/4 time, Mezzo-forte, Staff and note reading, Steps and skips, Grand staff. New notes taught are F and G in the LH and RH, completing the Middle C position.

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