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Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Rhythm

Lecture 1: Introducing the Stave and Clef

Lecture 2: Treble and Bass stave

Lecture 3: Notes and Stems

Lecture 4: Lines and Spaces of the Treble clef

Lecture 5: Bass Clef – lines and spaces

Lecture 6: Bass Clef lines and spaces and Ledger lines

Lecture 7: Middle C on the Piano

Chapter 2: Piano Keyboard

Lecture 1: Identifying the white keys of a keyboard

Lecture 2: Piano Keyboard Quiz

Chapter 3: Note Values and Rests

Lecture 1: Note Value

Lecture 2: Rests

Lecture 3: Rest Work sheet

Lecture 4: Dotted Minim

Chapter 4: Bars, Bar lines and Time Signatures

Lecture 1: Time Signatures – 2/4, 3/4, 4/4

Lecture 2: Bar lines work sheet

Chapter 5: Sight Reading – Piano

Lecture 1: How to play note values

Lecture 2: Sight Reading (Part 1)

Lecture 3: Sight Reading (Part 2)

Lecture 4: Sight Reading (Part 3)

Lecture 5: Sight Reading (Part 4)

Lecture 6: Sight Reading (Part 5)

Chapter 6: Tone, Semitones and Accidentals

Lecture 1: Tone and Semitone

Lecture 2: Accidentals

Lecture 3: How to write the accidentals and the importance

Lecture 4: How to Write the accidentals

Lecture 5: Accidentals work sheet

Chapter 7: Keys and Tonic Triads

Lecture 1: C Major

Lecture 2: Triads on the keyboard

Lecture 3: The Tonic Triad in the key of C Major

Lecture 4: Roman Numerals and Chord Symbols

Lecture 5: Key signatures on the keyboard

Lecture 6: F Major Scale

Lecture 7: C Major Scale on the keyboard

Lecture 8: G Major scale on the keyboard

Lecture 9: Key Signatures

Lecture 10: Key Signatures and work sheet (2)

Lecture 11: The Circle of 5ths

Lecture 12: F Major and G Major scale work sheet

Lecture 13: F Major and G Major scales

Chapter 8: Intervals

Lecture 1: Intervals

Lecture 2: Intervals work sheet

Chapter 9: Arpeggios

Lecture 1: Arpeggios

Lecture 2: Arpeggios work sheet

Lecture 3: Arpeggios on the keyboard

Lecture 4: Arpeggios on the Keyboard – F Major and G Major Arpeggios

Lecture 5: Difference between Chord( (Triad) and Melody

Chapter 10: Grouping Notes and Rests

Lecture 1: Grouping Notes and Beaming Quavers

Lecture 2: Grouping Rests

Lecture 3: Grouping work sheet

Lecture 4: Whole Bar of Silence

Chapter 11: Answering a given Rhythm

Lecture 1: Answering a given Rhythm

Lecture 2: Ostinato

Lecture 3: Ostinato Worksheet

Lecture 4: Ostinato work sheet – part 2

Chapter 12: Musical words and symbols

Lecture 1: Dynamics

Lecture 2: Articulations

Chapter 13: Analysis

Lecture 1: Analysis

Chapter 14: Practice tests

Lecture 1: Message from the tutor

Lecture 2: May 2013 (A) Paper Answers

Lecture 3: Guildhall Sample Paper – Answers

Chapter 15: Trinity College London Exam – How to register?

Lecture 1: Last Words from the Tutor