This course presumes that the learner has taken piano lessons before. (If not, they can attend one of my beginner courses.)

We will start where the student left off and proceed forward in the normal course of piano lessons. Normally, we work from the book they had used before, but we may change to a different book, if needed.  Piano method books go step by step, so it makes learning easy!
In all of our piano playing, first and foremost we will focus on making music and enjoying our time at the piano.  For reinforcement of each principle as it is introduced, supplementary material is carefully chosen, when needed.

We may use a different method, depending, but using Alfred’s Basic Piano Library Lesson Book, Theory, Technic and Solo (or Popular) Books (and some appropriate  supplemental books—e.g., Patriotic, Christmas/Holiday, Folk, and as they grow in their playing, famous pieces from the Classical Piano Repertoire)

If learner has begun Level 1A, we will pick up where needed ( I do have a separate course for Level 1A beginners, so please choose that if beginning from the start:   
🎹.    Review sitting at the piano (proper posture), keyboard geography (hi and low notes) and  finger numbers.  
          Begin learning staff and grand staff.  
          We will study beginning dynamics, name of keys in Middle C Position, letter names of notes on staff in Middle C position.                                Legato and staccato playing are introduced.  And we will review all we have learned periodically.  Student begins feeling like a piano player!

Songs Include: Balloons * Batter Up! * The Donkey * A Friend Like You * Hand-Bells * A Happy Song * Horse Sense * Totem Pole Song * It's Halloween! * Jingle Bells! * Jolly Old Saint Nicholas * July the Fourth! * Just a Second! * Love Somebody * Merrily We Roll Along O'er the Deep Blue Sea * Mexican Hat Dance * My Clever Pup * My Fifth * My Robot * Old MacDonald * Old Uncle Bill * Play a Fourth * Raindrops * Rain, Rain! * Rockets * Rockin' Tune * Rock Song * Sailing * Sea Divers * See-Saws * Skating * Who's on Third? * Willie and Tillie * Wishing Well * The Zoo

🎹Level 1B 
We work on correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. Lesson Book 1B begins by reviewing the concepts taught in Lesson Book 1A.
New concepts such as incomplete measures, tempo markings, eighth notes and rests, using the damper pedal, half steps and whole steps are introduced. Major scale is introduced through tetrachords.  Student becomes more comfortable reading music and being at the keyboard.

Songs Include: Brother John * Carol in G Major * The Carousel * The Clown * Concert Time * A Cowboy’s Song * The Cuckoo * French Lullaby * Good King Wenceslas * Good Morning to You! * Good Sounds * Grandpa’s Clock * The Greatest Show on Earth! * G’s in the "BAG" * Hail to Thee, America! * Harp Song * Happy Birthday to You! * Indians * Join the Fun * The Magic Man * Money Can’t Buy Everything * Music Box Rock * Oom-Pa-Pa! * Ping Pong * The Planets * The Rainbow * Sonatina * Step Right Up! * Waltz Time * When Our Band Goes Marching By! * When the Saints Go Marching In * The Whirlwind * The Windmill * Yankee Doodle

🎹. Level 2  
We work on note reading through interval recognition. Lesson Book 2 continues where Level 1B finishes, and it introduces dotted half notes and dotted quarter notes, plus more intervals, moving hands over more of the keyboard, triads, and primary chords.  Student becomes a more confident music note-reader, and because chords are introduced, more capable of making music without books.

 Songs Include: 18th Century Dance * Alouette * Blue Scales * Calypso Carnival * The Can-Can * Cockles and Mussels * The Galway Piper * Get Away! * Got Lotsa Rhythm * Kum-ba-yah! * Lavender’s Blue * London Bridge * Lone Star Waltz * Malaguena * Nick Nack Paddy Wack * Ode to Joy * Oh! Susanna! * On the Bridge at Avignon * Our Special Waltz * Prelude * Red River Valley * Sarasponda * Square Dance * When You Grow Up * Why Am I Blue?

🎹Level 3  
Emphasis in this level is on correct playing habits, note reading,"overlapping pedal"; new time signatures 3/8 and 6/8; and the primary triads in Major and Minor keys. New concepts include: passing one under two and one under three; playing major scales in contrary motion; the chromatic scale; the minor scale. 
 
Songs Include: Alpine Melody * Casey Jones * A Day in Vienna * Enchanted City * Fandango * Festive March * Go Down, Moses * Goodbye, Old Paint * Greensleeves * Hunting Song * Intermezzo * Light and Blue * The Major and the Minor * Make Up Your Mind! * On Top of Old Smoky * Prelude in 18th Century Style * Raisins and Almonds * La Raspa * Roman Holiday * Scarborough Fair * Scherzo * Village Dance * Waltz Pantomime

🎹Level 4 The student is becoming very competent and is ready for higher concepts.  
Lesson Book 4 concepts include: tarantellas; eighth note triplets; arpeggiated chords; first and second inversion triads in C; triads in all positions; major scales in parallel motion; two-part writing; seventh chords and inversions of seventh chords; E harmonic minor scale in contrary motion; primary chords in E minor; sixteenth notes; dotted eighth notes; primary chords in B-flat Major and G Minor; repeated-note warm-ups; and harmonic minor scales in parallel motion. 

Songs include: America the Beautiful (Ward) * The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Steffe-Howe) * Black Forest Polka * Blow, Winds, Blow! * Calypso Holiday! * Comedians' Dance (Kabelevsky) * Farewell to Thee (Aloha Oe) * Gypsy Dance * Haunted House * He's Got the Whole World in His Hands * The Hokey-Pokey * The House of the Rising Sun * The Magic Piper * Musette (Bach) * Olympic Procession * Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 (Elgar)* Prelude in A Minor * Space Shuttle Blues * Spinning Wheel * Swingin' Sevenths * Tarentella * Waltz in G Minor * Waves of the Danube (Ivanovici)

🎹 Level 5: 

Lesson Book 5 introduces  higher level concepts include the ornaments: long appoggiatura, short appoggiatura, trill and mordent; plus arpeggios; the A Major scale; and the keys of B minor and C minor. Also introduces the playing of minuets, sonatinas, preludes and arias. 

 Songs include: An American Hymn (Lowry) * Aria from "The Marriage of Figaro" (Mozart) * Bagatelle (Diabelli) * Ballade (Burgmuller) * Brazilian Holiday * Loch Lomond * Magic Carpet Ride * A Miniature Overture * Minuet (Bohm) * Prelude in C Major (Bach) * Prelude in C Minor (Morovsky) * Rondeau (Mouret) * Scene from "Swan Lake" (Tchaikovsky) * Sonata in the Style of Scarlatti * Sonatina on Three French Folk Tunes * Sonatina, Op. 36, No. 1, 1st Mvmt. (Clementi) * Spanish Dance * The Tailor’s Song * Theme (Corelli) * Variations on a Sea Chanty * A Very Special Day (Palmer)