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Piano Fundamentals

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This course is specifically designed for beginners with no prior experience and music enthusiasts who need to solidify their foundation. With "systematic and standardized, step-by-step progress" as its core, it constructs a scientific introductory system. The course covers three core modules: starting with basic music theory such as keyboard recognition and reading of staff notation to solidify the foundation of music theory; focusing on correct sitting posture, hand shape, and core touch techniques such as legato and staccato to strengthen standardized playing habits; and combining simple scales, chord practice, and classic introductory songs such as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" to achieve the integration of theory and practice.

Adopting the mode of "theoretical teaching + visual demonstration + phased practice", it adapts to different learning paces, taking into account both skill honing and music perception cultivation. Through course learning, students can master basic playing skills, independently complete the playing of simple tracks, and lay a solid foundation for subsequent advanced learning.

Syllabus

  • Chapter 1: Introduction to Piano and Basic Playing
    • 1.1 Learn and recognize piano and staves
    • 1.2 Piano playing posture, hand shape
    • 1.3 Non-legato playing technique and sight-reading
    • 1.4 Non-legato piece 1
    • 1.5 Non-legato piece 2
  • Chapter 2: Legato Playing Technique
    • 2.1 How to play legato and Two notes legato
    • 2.2 How to play legato and three note legato
    • 2.3 How to play legato - phrase
    • 2.4 How to play legato - different rhythmic combinations
    • 2.5 Legato technique work training 1
    • 2.6 Legato technique work training 2
    • 2.7 Comprehensive training in legato and non-legato techniques 1
    • 2.8 Comprehensive training in legato and non-legato techniques 2
  • Chapter 3: Basic Fingering and Scale Training
    • 3.1 Common fingering techniques
    • 3.2-3.3 Basic fingering training & C major scale and arpeggio - theoretical explanation
    • 3.4 C Major Scale and Arpeggio - Basic Exercises
    • 3.5 Training on works of C major scale
  • Chapter 4: Basic Music Theory and Cognition of Simplified Music Notation
    • 4.1-4.2 Definition and symbol of diatonic tones & sharps and flats on the keyboard
    • 4.3 Understanding Numbered Musical Notation
  • Chapter 5: D Major and Composition Practice
    • 5.1 Intro
    • 5.2 D Major Scale, Arpeggio and Chord
    • 5.3 Etudes in D Major
    • 5.4 German Dance
  • Chapter 6: F Major and Pedal Application
    • 6.1 Five-finger Exercise
    • 6.2 F Major Scale, Arpeggio and Chords
    • 6.3 Pedals
    • 6.4 Happy New Year
  • Chapter 7: B-flat Major and Polyphonic Training
    • 7.1 Five-finger Exercise
    • 7.2 B-flat Major Scale, Arpeggio and Chords
    • 7.3 Polyphony&7.4 Game
  • Chapter 8: Advanced Techniques and Comprehensive Training
    • 8.1-8.3 Hands Crossing and Alternating Playing&Review of Two-Octave Scales, Arpeggios, and Chords in C, G, D, F, and Bb Flat Major&Etude
    • 8.4-8.5 Comprehensive Piece Training (I)&Comprehensive Piece Training (II)
  • Chapter 9: Learning from Classical Works
    • 9.1.1 Ballade Overview
    • 9.1.2 Ballade Performance Practice
    • 9.2.1 Chopin's 'Waltz in a Minor (Posthumous) Overview
    • 9.2.2 Chopin's Waltz in a Minor (Posthumous) Work Analysis and Performance Practice
    • 9.3.1 Sonatina Overview
    • 9.3.2 Sonatina Performance Practice
  • Chapter 10 Sonata
    • 10 Overview of Piano Sonatas
    • 10.1 Demonstrate and explain the first movement of the work Clementi Sonatina Op.36 No.1
    • 10.2 Demonstration and explanation of the third movement of the work Clementi Sonata Op.36 No.2
  • final exam

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    Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology

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