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Syllabus
Level 1
30 Minute Lesson:
Relaxation exercises:
Technique: Scales, Exercises, sight reading
Piano and Performance Books:
Theory/Vocabulary/Music Appreciation:
5 minutes
5 minutes
15 minutes
5 minutes
45 Minute Lesson:
Relaxation exercises:
Technique: Scales, Exercises, sight reading
Piano and Performance Books:
Theory/Vocabulary/Music Appreciation:
5 minutes
10 minutes
20 minutes
10 minutes
Relaxation Exercises:
Before each practice session, it is important for you to be relaxed and focused. These exercises will
help you.
1.
Breathing Exercise: In a standing position, inhale through your nose, deeply. Exhale
through your mouth. Do this 10 times each day.
2.
Shoulder Rotations: Sometimes our shoulders are very tight and we need to relax them.
In a standing position, lift your shoulders up, almost touching your ears. Press them
forward, towards your chest, down and back. Do this several times forward and several
times backwards.
3.
Hand Shaking: This may look silly, but it helps the blood flow through your hands,
warming them up and ready to play beautiful music. Raise your arms above your head.
Shake your hands for 15 seconds. Now put your arms out in front, shake your hands for
15 seconds. Finally drop your arms to your sides and shake your hands for 15 seconds.
This should make your hands and fingers feel very tingly.
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Table of Contents
Pages
Assignments Sheets
Scales
47
Warm-up Exercises
64
Theory
73
Vocabulary
93
Music Appreciation
95
Year in Review
117
Reference Page
118
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LESSON 42
Lesson Day:
1
Total Minutes:
PRACTICE CHART
Parent Signature
Check List:
Breathing Exercise
Shoulder Rotations
Hand Shaking
Adjusting Bench
Weekly Assignments:
Scales:
C Major HT G Major HT D Major HT A Major HT
E Major HT B Major HT F Major HT
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SCALES
Musicians study scales, which means ladder in Latin, to help understand how our
music is put together.
You will be learning seven different scales this year.
They are C Major, G Major, D Major, A Major, E Major, B Major and F Major.
All begin on white keys.
Each scale is put together in a pattern.
The pattern for these scales is made up of whole steps and half steps.
The order in which you put each step is very important.
There are five whole steps and two half steps.
The pattern is as follows:
Half-step
Whole-step
Half-step
Whole-step
Whole-step
Whole-step
Whole-step
Starting note
Remember that a half step is just two notes, right next door to one another.
Most half-steps are black-to-white or white-to-black.
There are two white-to-white half steps.
They are E-F and B-C.
A whole step is two half steps put together.
In our Major scales, we always have the half steps between notes 3-4 and 7-8.
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Speed:
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C MAJOR SCALE
The C Major Scale has 7 different notes. They are:
(C)
C-1
D-2
E-3
F-1
G-2
A-3
B-4
C-5
Left Hand:
C-5
D-4
E-3
F-2
G-1
A-3
B-2
C-1
C-1
E-3
G-5
Left Hand:
C-5
E-3
G-1
(C)
When you play the cadence, you will play the C Major Chord in root position (stacked
in intervals of 3rds-skips).
The G Major Chord is stacked in intervals of 3rds and 4ths.
Notice that the note G is in the same place in both chords.
The fingering is as follows:
Right Hand:
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C-1
B-1
C-1
E-3
D-2
E-3
G-5
G-5
G-5
Left Hand:
C-5
B-5
C-5
E-3
D-3
E-3
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G-1
G-1
G-1
The C Major Arpeggio is made up of the C Major chord, played one note at a time.
The word arpeggio means, Harp like.
The fingering is as follows:
Right Hand:
C-1
E-2
G-3
C-5
G-3
E-2
C-1
Left Hand:
C-5
E-4
G-2
C-1
G-2
E-4
C-5
C Major
Fingering
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Tonic-Dominant
(1st Inversion)-Tonic
Cadence
Left Hand I-V6-I
Fingering
Fingering
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WARM-UP EXERCISES
Each exercise should be played through two times.
Make sure you work on playing slowly, using the correct fingering.
Watch your finger joints, so they dont collapse.
Once completed in the Key of C Major, try transposing into other keys that you have
learned.
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3
2
4
3
2
5
1
1
5
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THEORY
Lesson 11
1. Circle the time signature.
2. Put a box around the half notes.
3. Put an S between the notes that skip.
4. Draw an arrow pointing to all the sharps.
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Vocabulary
1. Chord: three or more notes played at the same time.
2. Double Bar Line: two vertical lines ( || ) placed side-by-side on the staff. It tells
the performer that it is the end of a section or a piece.
3. Duet: A piece written for two performers
4. F Clef: another name for the bass clef.
5. Final Bar Line: a double bar line with one thin line followed by one thicker line
on the staff. It tells the performer that it is the end of the piece.
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Music Appreciation
Lesson 2
The inside of the piano has many different parts.
The largest part is a cast iron frame; just like a frame surrounds and holds a picture in
place, this frame holds the strings and soundboard together. The frame is placed on top of
the soundboard and it holds almost everything.
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The strings cross over a felt pad and are attached to TUNING PINS. The string wraps around
the pin. The pins can be turned to make the pitch of each note higher or lower.
The hammers are below or behind the strings. When you press a note, it pushes the
hammer into the strings, causing the strings to make their sounds.
The dampers, which sit on top of the strings, are also pushed up. When the hammer falls
away from the strings, the damper then falls back onto the strings and quiets the sound.
Have your teacher show you all of these different parts inside his or her piano. Then go home and
see if you can find them on your piano.
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CONGRATULATIONS!
You are now ready to go to Level 2 of
The Piano Lesson Companion BooK
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