Piano and Electronic Keyboard is based on the Indiana Academic Standards for High School Music Technology and Instrumental Music. Students taking this course are offered keyboard classes in order to develop music proficiency and musicianship. Students perform with proper posture, hand position, fingering, rhythm, and articulation; compose and improvise melodic and harmonic material; create and perform simple accompaniments; listen to, analyze, sight-read, and study a variety of keyboard literature; study the elements of music as exemplified in a variety of styles; and make interpretive decisions.
Students taking Piano are offered keyboarding classes in order to develop music proficiency and musicianship. Students will learn to play the piano using proper posture, hand position, fingering, rhythm and articulation, and musicality. Students will also have a chance to express themselves in piano music by learning chords and creating their own music. Students will be using the Alfred Adult Piano Course Book.