Write Your Own Piano Song

In this 4 week class students will compose an original song on piano or keyboard.

Amy Hathaway

29 total reviews for this teacher

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45 minutes

per class

Once per week

over 4 weeks

12-16

year olds

4-8

learners per class

per learner - per class

How does a “Multi-Day” course work?

Meets multiple times at scheduled times

Live video chats, recorded and monitored for safety and quality

Discussions via classroom forum and private messages with the teacher

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Description

Class Experience

Students will need a piano or keyboard and 1 year experience playing the piano or keyboard. We will start out week one by playing simple patterns with both hands, high and low, ascending and descending, and improvising. Week 2 we will choose a style and begin writing down ideas for melodic and harmonic patterns. Week 3 we will be deciding on a mood, and adding dynamics and articulation to achieve the style and mood. Week 4 app students should have at least 16 measures of their own original...

Concepts taught will include dynamics, articulation, theme and variation, tempo. Short hand notation will be taught and used for rough ideas, then students can use staff paper to notate or download a free version of MuseScore to be able to print their music.

Homework will be 10 minutes (or more on a good day) per day writing ideas

Blank paper, pencils
Staff paper optional

Informal assessment

45 minutes per week in class, and an estimated 1 - 2 hours per week outside of class.

Teacher

Amy Hathaway

🇺🇸

Lives in the United States

Piano lessons

29 total reviews

110 completed classes

About Me

I teach piano lessons to ages 6 and up. I've been teaching for 20 years. My favorite composer is Clara Schumann. I teach classical music (like Beethoven) as well as arrangements of songs from musicals (like Greatest Showman) and pop/rock (like...