Piano Muscle Builders for Older Beginners: 2nd Edition

Description

Concepts Learned in Piano Muscle Builders for Older Beginners:

Part 1: White Key Pentascales (Major and Minor)

• Hands alone and hands together pentascales with metronome.
• Four octave hand-over-hand pentascales.
• Opposite-motion scales.
• Scales with one hand staccato and the other hand legato, and one hand forte with the other hand piano to learn independence of hands.
• Hands alone and hands together simple arpeggios.
• Four octave hand-over-hand arpeggios.
• “Fancy Arpeggios” with pedal and crescendo.
• Block triads with firm fingertips and flexible wrist.
• Four octave hand-over-hand triads.
• Writing all white key major and minor chords on the staff.

Part 2: Chords

• I, IV, and V7 chord progressions in every major white key.
• 3 different left hand accompaniment patterns.
• White key major and minor chord inversion exercises, blocked and broken, hands alone and hands together.
• Writing white key major and minor chord inversions on the staff.

Part 3: Black Key Pentascales (Major and Minor)

• Sneaky Thumb and Finger Crossover exercises.
• Five different musical ways to play scales.
• Black key pentascales with standard full scale fingerings (& an optional alternate fingering on a couple of them for greater ease of playing and teaching – up to your discretion which one you use!)
• Block triads in all black key major and minor keys.
• Writing black key major and minor chords on the staff.