This is a continuation of the first "Learn to Play for Beginners, Piano Adventures Level 4." Continue your learning from where you left off in level 4! Students must have completed the Piano Adventures Level 4 books or have prior approval from the teacher to join.

The focus in this class will be performance and refining chosen pieces of music. Please note a weekly breakdown of classes is a simple outline as each section is custom designed for the students enrolled.

Students will continue to learn:
-to recognize the keys on the piano and their names.
-finger numbers and how they relate to the position on the piano.
-melodic contour
-learn the value of practice and extension at home
-basic and complex rhythms and how to play and clap them
-proper piano position and posture
-how to set up a healthy practice routine at home
-record keeping for practice 
-independent theory practice
-performance practice

Students will work intensively through the lesson book and theory book from the level 4 books. For those students who would like an additional challenge I recommend purchasing the performance book or one of the other supplementary books to play for fun. Students may be asked to volunteer to lead a piece from their assignment for the following week in class. This will provide the instructor with additional opportunity for specific feedback and for the students to share their skills. This is not required so students are welcome to decline to play for others but it is highly encouraged. 

In this level we continue to meet for an extra 15 minutes for a total of 45 minutes. During our final 15 minutes of class students will work through their performance piece from the Royal Conservatory of Music Grade 3 Repertoire book. These pieces are more challenging pieces that each student will choose on their own and present in the final class for a final class performance. Students are able to opt out of the final class performance should they choose but I highly recommend sharing their work with the class.


All students will require a keyboard or piano to practice at home, in this level it is highly important to have a full size keyboard with weighted key and pedal to start to refine their skills. Regular daily practice will be required in order to improve as with any instrument instruction. 

Week 1: Theory review, review piece and introduction to solo pieces from RCM 3 book
Week 2-3: Cadences, reviewing I, IV, V chords to help identify candencial patterns, learning/reviewing advanced techniques for practice for advancing pianists 
Week 4-5: Reviewing the blues, learning grand cadence in E
Week 6-8: Naming Intervals (4th, 5th, Octave), practice technique review, Learning to Circle of 5ths to identify key signatures, 
Week 9-10: Piu mosso, identifying the roots of the chords, Two Octave Arpeggios
Week 11-15: Arpeggiated/rolled chord, Two-Octave flat scales, Three forms of minor scales, changing time signatures within a piece of music, 
Week 15: Final Performance of pieces from the Royal Conservatory of Music book that we work on for the last 15 minutes in each class and a piece of your choosing from the lesson book.