PARADIGM MUSIC SCHOOL
VAN NUYS, CA
KEYBOARD/PIANO: CONTENTS
- The white keys
- Posture and techique
- The middle C
- The treble and bass clefs
- The grand staff
- Reading music
- Hand positions and Fingering
- The black keys; accidentals
- Key signatures
- The passing thumb
- Independence between hands
- Playing simple melodies
- Major and minor triads
- Inversion.
- Melodies using the triads
- Broken chords
- Dynamics, expression, articulation, tempo.
- Left-hand chord playing
- Hand position changes
- Legato & Stacatto
- Choramitc Scale
- Left Hand Melodies
- Legato pedalling
- Seventh Chords
- Altered Chords
- Blue notes
- Bass lines
- Grace notes
- Major scales
- Pentatonic Scales.
- Modes of the major scale
- Melody and Harmony
- Comping
- Blues techniques
- Rock and Roll Piano
- Modern piano
- Solo piano improvisation
- Composing melodies
- Gospel, funky, country, latin, classical styles
- Recordin in a studio
- Playin live.