If playing keyboard is fun, then learning must also be fun

Introduction

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1. Checklist before playing
2. Playing by finger numbers
3. Dispelling Myths
4. Advantages to playing the Keyboard
5. Understanding the language of music
6. Looking at the different piano / keyboard options

Level 1

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1. Notes and Beats
2. Playing a melody
3. Working with scales
4. Major and minor scale exercises
5. Tempo, measures, and time signature
6. Varying beats and rhythms

Level 2

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1. Developing hand technique
2. Passing over and crossing under
3. Playing seconds and thirds with different finger combinations
4. Recognizing notes and symbols
5. Shifting your hand position as you play
6. Playing melodies in the right hand

Level 3

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1. Exploring keyboards west side (left hand)
2. Left hand melodies
3. Left- and right-hand coordination
4. Melody, harmony and song form
5. Measuring melodic intervals
6. Combining notes for Harmonic interval

Level 4

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1. Building chords to accompany melodies
2. The anatomy of a triad
3. Relating chords to a scale
4. Chord inversions
5. Exploring other types of chords
6.Playing songs with chords

Level 5

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1. Working on dynamics
2. The power of articulation
3. Dressing up your songs
4. Classical revelation
5. Playing the blues
6. Rock, pop, country & Soul

Level 6

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1. Finger coordination and footwork
2. Note to note jumps
3. Note to chord jumps
4. Chord to chord jumps
5. Jumping with both hands together
6. Left hand accompaniment patterns

Level 7

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1. Exercising with arpeggios and alternating hands
2. Triad arpeggio exercises
3. Exploring electronic keyboard technologies
4. Sounds and effects
5. Adding accompaniment, rhythm patterns and arpeggiation
6. Playing along with recordings and music software