Please note: This class picks up where Early Intermediate Piano Level N leaves off. Prospective students should be familiar with swing rhythm, 6/4 time signatures, triad construction, major and minor triads, ostinatos, one-octave arpeggios and the key of D major. Sight reading music is essential to this class so prospective students should be comfortable with reading music in the Level 3B Piano Adventures series (material from Level N). In this class, students will explore contrasts in music: rounded binary musical form, 6/8 time signature, chord inversions, sixteenth notes, playing with a "singing" tone and discovering the stylistic traits of JC Bach and Pachelbel. 

Please note: We will be using Piano Adventures Lesson Book Level 3B (2nd Edition) for this class. It is a required text for the class. 

Week One: We will continue to explore chord inversions. We will start Gurlitt's The Return in 6/8 time. 

Week Two: Review The Return. Examine different triads and chords inversions in a spiritual. 

Week Three: Continue to develop the spiritual. Begin sixteenth note rhythm study. 

Week Four: Review sixteenth note rhythm studies. Begin a piece with contrasting tempi by JC Bach. 

Week Five: Continue to develop the JC Bach piece. Explore a new piece with contrasting sections. 

Week Six: Check-in on Fanstasia Con Spirito and begin Pachelbel's Canon. 

Week Seven: Continue to develop Pachelbel's Canon. Examine the harmony in the piece. 

Week Eight: Finish learning Pachelbel's Canon. Student mini-recital.