Please note: This class picks up where Early Intermediate Piano Level P leaves off. Prospective students should be familiar with major and minor triads/scales and one-octave arpeggios. Sight reading music is essential to this class so prospective students should be comfortable with reading music in the Level 4 Piano Adventures series (material from Level P). In this class, students will explore expressiveness in music while exploring chord inversions, two octave scales & arpeggios dotted eighth to sixteenth notes and discovering the stylistic traits of Edvard Grieg and Scott Joplin. 

Please note: We will be using Piano Adventures Lesson Book Level 4 (2nd Edition) for this class. It is a required text for the class. 

Week One: We will start a piece with sixteenth note and dotted eighth note rhythms. 

Week Two: Continue to develop the piece from the previous class.  F Major and D Harmonic Minor Scales and Chords. 

Week Three: Start a Mazurka in F Major. 

Week Four: Continue to develop Mazurka. Review chords in D minor. 

Week Five: Begin a new piece with an ostinato pattern. 

Week Six: Continue to develop the previous piece. Develop articulation (accents, sforzando, etc). 

Week Seven: Begin a French Minuet by Lully. G Major and E Harmonic Minor scales & chords. 

Week Eight: Review previously learned scales, chords and pieces.