🟧 Piano Posture and Handshape

Proper posture at the piano is critical to developing good technique from the start. Learn how to position the bench so it is just right for you. Also learn how to sit at the bench in such a way as to optimize your sound.

01- Keystart Foundation Book One

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Welcome and How to Use This Course

  • πŸ”΄ Welcome and How to Use This Course

Module 1: Setting the Stage: Posture & Timing

  • 🟧 Piano Posture and Handshape
  • 🟧 Finger Numbers and High/Low Keyboard
  • 🟧 The Quarter Note/Here’s to the Quarter Note
  • 🟧 The Half Note/Up & Down
  • 🟧 The Whole Note/Walking Along

Module 2: Constructing Your Musical Knowledge

  • 🟦 Dynamics/Bells
  • 🟦 The Music Alphabet
  • 🟦 Naming the White Keys
  • 🟦 Barlines, Measures, and Time Signatures
  • 🟦 Counting/Ode to Joy
  • 🟦 The Dotted Half Note/Floating Clouds
  • 🟦 Different Hand Positions/Going Fishing

Module 3: The Musical Landscape: Staff & Guide Notes

  • 🟨 The Grand Staff/Practice with the Grand Staff
  • 🟨 Middle C/Meeting Middle C
  • 🟨 Guide Notes/Guide Note Gallop
  • 🟨 So Happy Together
  • 🟨 Perfect Alignment
  • 🟨 Treble DEF/Getting into Treble
  • 🟨 Bass BAG/The Can-Can/Beginning Note Practice

Module 4: First Tunes: Building Your Repertoire

  • 🟩 Yankee Doodle
  • 🟩 Morning
  • 🟩 Humoresque
  • 🟩 Steps & Skips/Hop, Skip, and Jump
  • 🟩 Intervals Part 1/Playing Seconds and Thirds
  • 🟩 Bass CDE/Bass-ically
  • 🟩 The C Pentascale

🎊 Next Steps

  • Next Steps

Bonus Theory Lessons with MusicTheory.Net

  • πŸŸͺ The Grand Staff MusicTheory.Net
  • πŸŸͺ Note Duration MusicTheory.Net
  • πŸŸͺ Measures and Time Signatures MusicTheory.Net
  • πŸŸͺ Rest Duration MusicTheory.Net