No Practice Piano Lessons for Busy Families Part 1: Semester Piano Lessons

Join us for 12 weeks of fun and engaging piano lessons for the total beginner. These full curriculum piano lessons with no practice requirements are perfect for homeschoolers, busy families, and neurodiverse learners! Piano Book included.

W H A T   I S   N O   P R A C T I C E ?  🤔 🤔  

A no practice curriculum is a piano curriculum designed to offer busy parents and children a chance to learn piano without the expectation or demand of daily practice.  This curriculum differs from traditional piano lessons in that the pacing of concepts is slower and there is a lot of revision and practice built into each lesson.  By removing the expectation to practice we are allowing learners to enjoy making and learning about music in a fun and low demand environment.

🧒 W H O   I S   T H I S   C L A S S   F O R ? 

This class is for any total beginner piano student who cannot commit to practicing each week, but can commit to coming for lessons.  Whether you have a busy schedule, executive functioning challenges, want a low demand introduction to piano, or just want to try out piano and see if you like it, then these classes are for you.  They are slower paced than traditional lessons, but we go through all the material together in a fun and engaging way.  
NOTE: If you'd like faster paced classes and can commit to practicing about 10-20 minutes, 5X a week, please check out my Traditional Twist Piano Classes!

W H A T   T O   E X P E C T

👩‍🏫  In this 12 week class, learners will meet 2x/week for 30 minutes each for a fun and engaging way to learn piano fundamentals including rhythm, note reading, improvising, intervalic reading and more!
🌈  A fun and engaging neurodiversity affirming class experience where everyone is free to be themselves.  All I ask is that you are respectful to yourself and other learners
🎵 A rhythm warm up or youtube Body percussion
💪 Physical isolations and exercises to engage large and small muscles 
🎮  interactive board games and activities on Google Slides
📖  learning to analyse and read music on Screen Share
🎹  practicing and performing on the piano
 
🔍 C L A S S   O V E R V I E W

The class is structured around Vibrant Music Teaching's Piano Launchpad curriculum by Nicola Canton.  There are 3 parts to this class and this class is PART 1.  All students will receive a PDF of the Student Piano Pieces we will be working on each semester.  In addition to the pieces, we will be playing lots of games, screen sharing to annotate and analyse music, learn rhythm with body percussion on youtube, and have lots of fun together!

Classes will meet 2X per week.  The topics below will be split between the two classes each week and we will also spend time reviewing lessons from previous weeks. Please note this is meant as a guide and I will adjust / review topics as needed to best suit the learners in each class.

Week 1:	Groups of Black Keys, Whole and quarter notes, Note D, T-T-T-Takeoff
Week 2:	Finger Numbers, Eighth Notes, White Key Names, Star Sleet
Week 3:	Half Notes, Steps / Skips, Alien Friend
Week 4:	Forte / Piano, Black Key Bunches
Week 5:	Line/ Space,  Hop on the Moon	
Week 6:	Treble/Bass Clef, Saturn Supposes
Week 7:	Landmark Cs, Space Snacks
Week 8:	Reading steps on the staff, Mary Lives on Jupiter	
Week 9:	Reading skips on the staff, Space Station Saunter
Week 10: Fine, DC al Fine, Far Off Sun 				
Week 11:	C pentascale, dotted quarter note, Ode to Earth	
Week 12:	Intervalic Reading, patterns, Skating on Asteroids