MUSC105

Class Piano is a course designed for students who would like to develop elementary-level piano skills. This course is also appropriate for students who have previously studied piano and want a refresher. In this class, students will learn the rudiments of piano playing: keyboard topography, reading by finger numbers, intervallic reading, and basic concepts of pulse, rhythm, and meter. Students will learn basic staff notation, interpreting chord symbols, note names and values. Students will also learn to read a lead sheet, incorporate scales used in popular music like pentatonic, modal, blues…etc., chord progressions used in popular music, rock, pop, jazz, R&B, and blues from the 1940's up to the present. Basic functional skills in sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, and ensemble playing are developed throughout the course.