We ArtPlay Piano

Name: We ArtPlay Piano
Rating: 4.6 (17 reviews)

Composing and Improvising on the Piano

Created byJeremy Levine

Last updated 9/2020

English

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What you'll learn

piano
improvisation
composition
songwriting
music theory

Course content

1 section • 6 lectures • 1h 4m total length

Naming the White Keys10:08
Master naming the white keys on the piano using the A–G alphabet and octave equivalency, with doghouse and people house mnemonics and practice exercises.
Naming the Black Keys5:20
Learn to name the black keys on the piano, mastering the double naming of flats and sharps, including exceptions like B/C and E/F, with practice drills.
Key Mastery - Scales, Dyads, and Triads15:14
Master scales, dyads, triads, and arpeggios through key mastery exercises that warm up, build two-handed coordination, and develop rhythm with a metronome and bpm guidance.
Composing with One Finger14:27
Create a drone with the left hand while the right hand builds a melody using scale degrees one, three, and five, exploring major and minor moods at 80 bpm.
Easy Improvisation15:31
Explore easy improvisation by layering left-hand drones and a moving baseline with right-hand melodies built from scale degrees one, three, and five, using triads and chord progressions.
We ArtPlay Piano3:47
Compose from day one in a six-week practical piano course, improvise, and arrange your own music, using video lessons, live group or private classes, and a final virtual recital.

Requirements

keyboard/piano
DO NOT NEED TO READ SHEET MUSIC

Description

This is the first week only of the 6-week We ArtPlay Piano course on the foundational building blocks essential for musical creation. Rather than learning how to replicate other people's music, we will start composing original music on day 1!

The goal is to gain practical skills and a deeper understanding of music's inner-workings so that you are empowered to create beautiful music, explore endless possibilities, and find joy through musical play. Each video explores a musical concept, and demonstrates clear, step-by-step methods that you can practice to incorporate these concepts into your piano playing.

The full course is available of the We ArtPlay website, and includes over 4 hours of video lessons that you can watch at your own pace to learn the fundamentals of piano composition.

Who this course is for:

Whether you've never touched a piano, or you want to move beyond playing cover songs, this course will help you grow as a musician so you can sit and the piano and just PLAY!