Conquering Piano 1
After taking this course your undergraduate group piano class could actually be fun.
Course Description
This course is designed to prepare students to succeed in or even test out of undergraduate class piano 1. View a few sample lessons here on my YouTube channel.
Every time I've taught this course I'm frustrated at the huge learning curve my freshman students faced, driving me to create an online course to help people learn these skills at their own pace before they encountered the stress and expense of the undergraduate course. I teach the same concepts presented in Alfred's Group Piano For Adults textbook, but this will also work if you are using the Hilley or some other textbook.
Course curriculum
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2Rhythm
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Duple Rhythm Patterns
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Duple Rhythms Neutral
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Duple Rhythm Solfege
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Triple Rhythms Neutral
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Triple Rhythms Solfege
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3The Staff
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Intervals on the Staff Part Two
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Intervals on the Staff Part 1
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Intervals from 2nds to 8ths
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Clefs and Guide Notes on the Staff
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The Grand Staff
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Meter/Time Signature
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4Scales
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Four Basic Motions for Playing Scales
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Fancy Names for Scale Degrees
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Half Step/Minor 2nd
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Whole Step/Major 2nd
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Key Signatures
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C Major Scale
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G Major Scale
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D Major Scale
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A Major Scale
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E Major Scale
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B major Scale
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Relative Major and Minor
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Aeolian/Natural Minor Scale
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Leading Tone and Harmonic Minor Scale
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Dorian Mode Scale
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Phrygian Mode Scale
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Lydian Mode Scale
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Mixolydian Mode Scale
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Locrian Mode Scale
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Chromatic Scale
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Whole Tone Scale
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Blues Scale
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Major Pentatonic Scale
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Minor Pentatonic Scale
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F Major Scale
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B-flat major Scale
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E-flat major scale
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A-flat major scale
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C#/Db Major Scale
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F-Sharp/G-flat Major Scale
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C Harmonic Minor Scale
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B-flat Harmonic Minor Scale
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G-sharp Harmonic Minor Scale
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F Harmonic Minor Scale
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B Harmonic Minor Scale
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E-flat Harmonic Minor Scale
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A Harmonic Minor Scale
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G Harmonic Minor Scale
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F-sharp Harmonic Minor Scale
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D Harmonic Minor Scale
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E Harmonic Minor Scale
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C-sharp Harmonic Minor Scale
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E-flat Blues Scale
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E Blues Scale
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G Blues Scale
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C Blues Scale
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F Blues Scale
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B Blues Scale
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D Blues Scale
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B-flat Blues Scale
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A Blues Scale
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C-Sharp/D-flat Blues Scale
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A-flat Blues Scale
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F-sharp/G-flat Blues Scale
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5Arpeggios
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Cross Hand Arpeggio
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C Major/Minor Arpeggio
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G major/minor Arpeggio
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D major/minor Arpeggio
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A major/minor Arpeggio
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E major/minor Arpeggio
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B Major/Minor Arpeggio
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F-sharp/G-flat/F-sharp minor Arpeggio
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F major/minor Arpeggio
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B-flat major/minor Arpeggio
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E-flat major/minor Arpeggio
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A-flat major/G-sharp minor Arpeggio
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D-flat major/C-sharp minor Arpeggio
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6Chords
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Diatonic triads in major
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Primary chords in major
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Diatonic triads in minor
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Primacy chords in minor
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Playing thirds with 1-2
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Playing 6ths with 1-5
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First Inversion Triads Right Hand
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Second inversion triads left hand
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Playing fourths with 1-3
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First inversion triads left hand
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Second inversion triads right hand
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Root position and first inversion triads white keys a e
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Introducing 1 4 5 6 chord progressions
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All types of 7th chords
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Introducing Dominant 7th chords
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Diminished 7th chord inversion fingering
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7th chord inversions
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Different types of cadences
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C Cadences root position right hand
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Cadences with right hand inversions
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Cadences with left hand
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Cadences in minor keys
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Cadences with both hands and beyond
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Cadences with 1-6-4-5 chords
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Cadences with 1-6-4-2-5 chords
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7Harmonization
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I, V Harmonize Hot Cross Buns
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I, V Harmonize We Roll Along
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I, V Harmonize London Bridge is falling down
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I, V Harmonize It's raining, it's pouring
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I, V Harmonize Old Macdonald
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Harmonize Row your boat
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Harmonize Long, Long Ago
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Harmonize Down by the bay
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Harmonize Hush little baby
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Harmonize I like to eat apples and bananas
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Harmonize Rain rain go away
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Harmonize the wheels on the bus
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Harmonize Happy Birthday
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Harmonize Twinkle twinkle
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Harmonize Hickory Hickory Dock
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8Transposition
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Introduction to transposition
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9Improvisation
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Improvising on three black keys
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Improvising using chord symbols and other things
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Improvising using pentascales -- stable and unstable
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Improvising right hand blues scale
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Left hand blues scale patterns
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