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Classical Piano Lessons
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Here's an outline of topics your teacher can cover with you depending on your level of ability.
Beginner
- The notes of the piano
- Reading music
- Proper posture at the piano
- Keeping the arms loose
- Method Books
- Suzuki or Bastien for children
- Bartok's Mikrokosmos for Adults
Intermediate
- Scales
- Major scales, all 12 keys
- Minor scales, harmonic and melodic, all 12 keys
- Arpeggios
- Minor and major, all 12 keys
- Legato
- Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"
- Dynamics
- Beethoven's "Fur Elise"
- Counterpoint: Clarity and Control for the Left Hand
- Bach's 2 and 3-part Inventions
Advanced
- Repertoire
- Baroque: Bach
- Classical: Mozart, Handel, Pachelbell, Beethoven, Telaman, Mendelssohn, Strauss
- Romantic: Schubert, Brahms, Schuman, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Lizst
- French: Ravel, Debussy
- 20th Century: Bartok, Schonberg, Barber, Gershwin, Wagner
Related Information
About the Piano
The invention of the modern piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua, Italy in the early 1700s.