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Piano Lessons: Teach Yourself to Play

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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

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. The Basics
  • 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
2. Melodic Intervals
  • Melodic intervals: 2nds
  • Melodic intervals: 3rds
  • Melodic intervals: 4ths
  • Melodic intervals: 5ths
3. Introducing Harmony
  • 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
4. New Rhythms and Intervals
  • 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
5. Music Theory
  • Measuring half steps and whole steps
  • The major scale
  • More about chords
  • About the blues
  • RH: An extended position
  • The G major scale
6. Progressions and Triplets
  • Triads and progressions
  • A new style of bass
  • Eighth note triplets
Conclusion
  • Closing and credits

Taught by

Gayle Kowalchyk, Thomas Palmer, Willard A.Palmer and Morton Manus

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