Smart Skills for Piano Beginners

Learn the piano and keyboard from cumulative skills that contribute for your independence. The key goal is generously providing you smart effective tools for your active learning. With such tools you will be capable to acquire more information and learn to perform the songs you wish saving your time.

The skills featured are: melody, accompaniment, accompanied melody, music reading, piano technique and musical perception and creation. These abilities make learning faster and help learning the songs you wish. You will learn to play piano and music elements, not only to reproduce tunes.

Main themes:

• basic motions and sound direction

• hand's standard position

• playing melodies and chords

• intervals and chords,

• scales

• sustain pedal

• reading a sheet music by intervals

• intervalar reading by reference points

• polyphony studies (playing hands together)

• time signatures

• harmonic, melodic and rhythmic perception

• composing music ideas

Final Project: learn and play two songs, one from the Middle Ages and one from the Renaissance.

This course promotes a new approach of the music score reading through the intervalar reading and the complementarity of the G, C and F-clefs. You will recognize the instrument's diverse regions and achieve an intuitive reading without needing to memorise all the note positions. Playing with two hands and Musical Perception also have a special treatment as they constitute common obstacles for piano beginners.

All songs and exercises taught are public domain or authored by the instructor. This course does not violate any copyright law. The soundtrack was recorded with exclusivity and contains folk and classical public domain songs. A soundtrack playlist is provided so you can add it to your own playlist.

The instructor is available to answer students' questions and help them with their difficulties.