Please note: This class picks up where Early Intermediate Piano Level R 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 R). 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: Review Power Scales in Sharp Keys (D, A & E). Begin Chord Inversion Etude. 

Week Two: Continue to develop the chord inversion etude.  Learn lead sheet for The Blue Danube. Develop LH blocked and broken chord accompaniments (hands separately). 

Week Three: Review previous pieces and scales. Begin work on a gigue. 

Week Four: Continue to develop the gigue. Begin Prelude in C by Bach. 

Week Five: Continue to develop Prelude in C. Sightread a short exercise. 

Week Six: Continue to develop Prelude in C.  

Week Seven: Begin Wild Flowers. Start how to accompany a pop piece (lyrics and chords). 

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