Piano Lessons
Customized Piano Lessons
Customized weekly online piano lessons tailored to meet each student’s individual goals.
What the student will learn in each level:
Beginner Piano Lessons
• Proper posture and sitting arrangement at the piano/keyboard.
• Correct placement of hands on the piano/keyboard.
• Knowledge of rhythm (motion, timing and patterns of when to play notes on the piano/keyboard)
• Musical notation (system of written symbols that represent the keys on the piano/keyboard)
• Basic musical terminology (symbols and commands that bring music to life)
• Music appreciation (knowledge about composers and their styles, different musical instruments, different forms of art: literature, painting, cinema, etc.)
• Ear training (basic recognition of relationship between the notes, intervals and chords)
• Basic technique skills (developing independence and strengthening of fingers)
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Intermediate Piano Lessons
• Expanding knowledge of scales, chord inversions, arpeggios, Circle of Fifth.
• Developing independence of both hands.
• Learning to understand and play more complex rhythmical structures.
• Developing piano technique through mastering intermediate level piano technical skills.
• Expanding piano repertoire though more complex memorization.
• Learning to sight-read beginning level pieces on the spot.
• Ear training—recognize, sing and write simple chords, intervals and melodies.
• Knowledge and execution of different articulation on the piano (legato, staccato, non-legato) and basic pedaling.
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Advanced Piano Lessons
• Advancing to high level of hands independence.
• Pedaling skills tied to the composer’s style.
• Memorization of difficult piano pieces.
• Advanced piano sight-reading and accompanying skills.
• Ear training—recognize and write complex rhythmical patters, harmonies and melodies.
• Classical sonata form and other musical forms.
• Expanding knowledge to polyphony with emphasis on high level of hands independence.
• Control of texture/interaction/balance between voices/lines in different musical structures.
• Advanced piano technique exercises, scales and etudes.
• History of music and best world piano performing schools/artists.
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Performer/Competitor Piano Lessons
• Preparing for competitions, recitals and auditions that includes selecting a program for each student’s individual skills, strengths and abilities.
• Presentation, stage presence, and stress management.
• Creating a unique interpretation for each performing piece.
• Stylistic performance approach for three major schools: German, Russian and French.
• Filigree pedaling skills.
• Accuracy of performance.
• Technical brilliance of performance through correct technique, fingering and drills.
• Tools for memorization and successful delivery on the level it was practiced/prepared.
• Unity of the form for complete and harmonious wholeness of each performing piece.
• Expressive phrasing and articulation.
• Endurance for the duration of the whole performance.
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