MUS-1210 Class Piano

Credits 1
Class Piano is designed for beginners and non-piano majors and focuses on the development of basic keyboard skills. Students learn to play major and minor scales, basic technical exercises to develop finger independence, and I-IV-V-I chord progressions in various keys. Additionally, students are taught methods for successful sight-reading and melody harmonization. Students perform elementary-level piano music.
2 lab hours.
Course Outcomes

Perform standard keyboard notation, written in both treble and bass clefs.
Play five-finger patterns in major and minor keys.
Play chord progressions containing I - IV – V7 - I in major and minor keys of C, F, and G.
Play major and minor scales in the keys of C, F, and G.
Perform elementary level piano pieces accurately from the literature.