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Piano Skills and Resources

Justifying Experience

By Edsel Flores and Anthony Hildebrant

Skills

Skills

Beginner

Beginner

  • Seating Position
  • Finger Numbers
  • Learning the notes
  • Listening Skills
  • Basic Scales
  • Hand position
  • Dynamics
  • Simple Rhythms
  • Standard Notation
  • Performance skills

Intermediate

Intermediate

  • Sight Reading
  • Music Theory
  • Reading the grand staff
  • Major keys
  • Minor keys (Natural, Harmonic, and Melodic)
  • Time Signatures
  • Playing by Memory
  • Intro to Improve

Advance

  • Fluent Sight Reading
  • Familiar with most music terms
  • All major and minor scales 4 octaves
  • Arpeggios 4 octaves
  • Contrary motion
  • Extensive knowledge of music theory, music history, and ear training.
  • Accompanying experience
  • Creates/Performs original Melodies
  • Improvisation Advance

Resources

Resources

Beginner

  • Michael Aaron's Piano Course
  • Music for Little Mozarts
  • Alfred's Teaching little fingers to play
  • Pre A
  • Colorinmypiano.com
  • Duke

Intermediate

  • "The virtuoso pianist," Hanon
  • Progressive Sight Reading Exercises for Piano
  • Alfred's complete guide for scales, arpeggios, and cadences
  • Improve your Sight reading! Piano Level 5-6
  • Duke

Advance

  • Youtube for listening to famous perfermances
  • Rank Mantooth voicings for Jazz Chords
  • 20th Century Harmony books
  • Duke

Instructional Approach

  • Including the Parent
  • Finding out what the student is interested in.
  • Daily Practice Routine
  • Establishing Good Practice Habits
  • Preparing for first performances

Beginner

  • Improvising
  • Understanding the student's unique characteristics.
  • Creative Lessons
  • Varied Rep
  • Composing
  • Music Theory into lectures
  • Sight Reading and Ear Training assistance

Intermediate

Advance

  • Exploring Interpretive Possibilities
  • Developing a good sound
  • Analyzing the music deeply and finding out the designs
  • Advance theory and composition
  • Students should be able to analyze their own playing.
  • Guide the students towards self teaching.

Repertoire

Repertoire

Beginner

  • "Beginning Piano Solos,"
  • Minuet in G minor
  • Pieces from the the "Teaching Little Fingers to Play"
  • Pieces from Method Books for beginners.

Intermediate

  • 50 listening classical Themes, Hal Leonard
  • Intermediate Repertoir 1-Bastien
  • All of Bach's Two Part Invention
  • Piano Sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven.

Advance

  • All of Bach's Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier
  • All of Bach's Toccatas
  • OP. 31 by Frederic Chopin.
  • Op. 53 By Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Intermezzo in B flat minor No. 2, Op 117 by J. Brahms
  • Chopin's Winter Winds
  • Chopin's Etude in C minor
  • Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody

Other Notes

Other Notes

Beginner

  • Teacher should not stop students often when they make a mistake because it develops a studdering habit during performances.
  • Teacher should be patient with the student if the student is not understanding the material right away.
  • Teacher should put themselves in the shoes of other students
  • Students may lose interest in classical music during their teens so it is important to incorporate what the student is interested in.
  • Teacher should start recommending the student more diverse music to learn.

Intermediate

Advance

  • Teacher should let the student discover their own unique style of interpreting music.
  • Teacher should encourage the student to explore the world to discover new sounds and other musical cultures for inspiration.
  • Student should prepare to perform an original work of theirs.

Our Justifying Experiences

What Anthony has to say:

"As a teacher of beginner piano, I find that my students are practicing as much as they should so a practice log may be beneficial."

"When I was 13, I lost interest in learning classical piano and became interested in other instruments and musical styles such as rock. This was good for me as I expanded my boundaries of what I can do in music, but I missed out in crucial piano training since I quit lessons. If the teacher can incorporate new styles and instruments into the lesson to account for this it would be beneficial."

Anthony

What Edsel has to say:

"As someone who did not start playing piano until high school, I have a good memory of what resources helped me and I use that to guide my students today. I remember studying music theory before learning my first piece. It's important to teach students the basics first such as learning the about the grand staff which is what we use to read piano sheet music. Once I studied the grand staff and all it's notes and where they are on the piano, everything became clear to me.

I took a class piano course in high school and I gained knowledge from an instructor. With that knowledge I was able to teach myself more pieces after the course was over. I taught myself pieces I was interested in. This developed my interest even further to be a pianist. The more I learned pieces I liked, the more I enjoyed playing piano. What I'm trying to say is that it is a good idea to always think about the students interest on what pieces to learn because they will enjoy it more.

Once I started taking private lessons in college, my skills developed so much in a short time. I had really good teachers who have taught me very good piano techniques. The method books my teachers showed me are what I use to teach my students. When ever a student has trouble with a piece, I put myself in his or her shoes and try to learn it myself to see how I can help him or her."

Edsel

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