Discover the essentials of piano playing with Piano Level 1 by Piano Teaching Pros. Learn proper techniques, scales, improvisation, and classic pieces in this comprehensive course.
Piano Level 1 is a comprehensive course designed to bring out the best in every piano beginner. With a total duration of 11 hours and 24 minutes, this highly-rated course boasts an impressive average rating of 5 stars, reflecting the satisfaction of its learners. Belonging to the Instruments and Vocal category and specifically tailored for piano enthusiasts, this course covers a multitude of foundational aspects essential for mastering the piano.
Piano beginners are welcomed into the world of music with guidance on proper body and hand postures, ensuring a strong and healthy start. The course emphasizes the significance of arm weight in playing the piano with ease, moving learners swiftly past common beginner traps using Mozart's beginner-friendly sonatas as practical examples.
From the very basics of identifying white keys, learners progress through carefully crafted exercises designed to prepare fingers for advanced pieces like Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turka. Lessons on playing steps, major 5-finger scales, and triads are thoroughly covered, alongside more technical exercises such as Hanon No.1 and wrist circles aimed at promoting ease of movement across the keyboard.
Piano technique is a central focus of the course, with insights into maintaining balance, applying wrist and arm movements effectively, and ensuring fluidity through exercises such as forearm rotations and various Hanon drills. As part of the learning journey, students tackle major scales and chromatic exercises, ascending from beginner to advanced levels with expertly structured guidance.
The curriculum extends to hand-over-hand arpeggios, practicing hand independence, and mastering articulations like legato and staccato. Learners conquer pieces from Mozart's sonatas, refine dynamics, and build speed without rushing, ensuring a comprehensive and practical approach to piano mastery.
Piano sight reading is an essential skill, and this course offers strategies for reading music, understanding the grand staff, and recognizing landmark notes. Students gain confidence in sight-reading through engaging pieces by Bartok, Wohlfahrt, and more, alongside mastering reduction techniques for famous compositions like Beethoven’s "Moonlight" Sonata.
For those interested in improvisation, the course covers reading lead sheets, chord charts, and basic chord improvisation techniques. Learners practice with melodies in various tempi, gradually enhancing their improvisation skills while playing familiar tunes such as Miniature Waltz by Lancaster and Moonlit Shores by Randall Hartsell.
Throughout the course, students explore major and minor scales, triad chord inversions, and major arpeggios with practical demos from pieces by Clementi and Debussy. Additionally, the course delves into primary chord progressions, accompaniment patterns, and transposition strategies using well-known melodies, ensuring a well-rounded musical foundation.
Incorporating festive spirit, the course includes lessons on Christmas classics like Silent Night and Jingle Bells, allowing students to harmonize and improvise on these pieces with the provided sheet music. The repertoire collection from Alfred's Group Piano for Adults serves as a delightful conclusion, catering to complete beginners with an aspiration to perform confidently.
Overall, Piano Level 1 meticulously curates a pathway from foundational piano techniques to more nuanced musical expressions, equipping students with the skills and confidence to pursue their piano-playing aspirations.
Video class: First thing on piano: proper body and hand postures
0h05m
Exercise: When sitting at the piano, where should the pianist position their body in relation to the keyboard?
Video class: Piano technique: use of arm weight - play piano with ease
0h06m
Video class: Piano beginner trap: Mozart's “a little piano sonata for beginners”
0h01m
Video class: Piano Basics: White Keys
0h05m
Exercise: Which of the following sequences corresponds to the white keys that surround the two black keys on a piano?
Video class: Piano technique: prepare fingers, play Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turka evenly and naturally
0h13m
Video class: How to Play Step, Major 5-Finger Scale, and Triad
0h08m
Video class: Hanon No.1, Wrist Circles Exercise - How to Play Piano with Ease
0h07m
Exercise: When learning proper piano technique, what is the primary role of the wrist according to the video?
Video class: Forearm Rotation; Hanon Nos. 5
0h08m
Video class: Hanon No. 2: Use of Arm Weight, Wrist Circles
0h12m
Video class: Piano technique: play with balance, apply wrist and arm movement
0h12m
Exercise: Why is using your arm and wrist, in addition to your fingers, important when playing the piano?
Video class: Piano exercises: major 5-finger scales, key groups, chromatic exercise
0h10m
Video class: Three levels of piano scales exercise - beginner, intermediate and advanced levels
0h25m
Video class: Piano technique: hand-over-hand Arpeggios
0h06m
Exercise: What is the purpose of using the damper pedal when playing arpeggios on the piano?
Video class: How to Practice Hand Independence and Articulations: legato, staccato
0h07m
Video class: Piano technique: how to fix "Lazy Fingers" and play mozart piano sonata
0h10m
Video class: How to Practice Hand Independence, Dynamics
0h12m
Exercise: What does the term 'mezzo piano' (mp) signify in musical dynamics?
Video class: Piano technique: how to play fast, avoid Rushing
0h18m
Video class: Piano Sight Reading: How to Read Music, Grand Staff, Landmark Notes
0h06m
Video class: How to Sight Read Piano Music, Sight-reading Strategies – Bartok First Term at the Piano No. 2
0h11m
Exercise: What is the time signature of Béla Bartók's 'Walking' from his first term at the piano, as discussed in the lesson?
Video class: How to Sight Read Piano Music, Sight-Reading Strategies – Waltz, Wohlfahrt Op. 87, No. 39
0h09m
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Nalwadda Matilda
thanks a lot it was really helpful to me because I have been yearning to learn a piano but now am covered may God bless you