Microcourse: Teaching Piano Skills

Teaching Piano Skills gives teachers insight into the best practices of teaching and learning scales, chords, and arpeggios at the piano. This fully online microcourse is designed to be completed at your own pace.

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Course Curriculum

Topics include: Five-finger exercises, finger independence, major and minor scales, fingering, double thirds, chords, and arpeggios

1. How to use this course
1. Course Introduction
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2. Welcome Survey
1. Session Contents
2. Video 1 (with Transcript): "Five-Finger Scales" with Marvin Blickenstaff
3. Video 2 (with Transcript): "Finger Independence" with Marvin Blickenstaff
4. Video 3 (with Transcript): "Teaching Scales, Part 1" with Marvin Blickenstaff
5. Reading 1: "What Are the Problems of the Thumb and How Do You Solve Them?" (Steven Roberson, Editor)
6. Reading 2: "How Do You Introduce Scales?" by Scott McBride Smith
7. Reflection Question
8. Session Resources
1. Session Contents
2. Video 1 (with Transcript): "Teaching Scales, Part 2" with Marvin Blickenstaff
3. Reading 1: "Minor scales: a Hug and a Kiss, or Just a Handshake?" by Lee Evans
4. Reading 2: "Teaching Two-Octave Scales" by Scott McBride Smith
5. Reflection Question
6. Session Resources
1. Session Contents
2. Video 1 (with Transcript): "Scale Routines" with Marvin Blickenstaff
3. Reading 1: "Practicing Double-Thirds Scales" by Dan Lansdown
4. Reading 2: "Beyond Major and Minor: A Composer’s Understanding of Chords and Scales" by Forrest Kinney
5. Reading 3: "Ten Precepts of Good Fingering" by Paul Wirth (Scott McBride Smith, Editor)
6. Reflection Question
7. Session Resources
8. Exit Survey
1. Session Contents
2. Video 1 (with Transcript): "Chords" with Marvin Blickenstaff
3. Video 2 (with Transcript): "Arpeggios, Part 1" with Marvin Blickenstaff
4. Video 3 (with Transcript): "Arpeggios, Part 2" with Marvin Blickenstaff
5. Reading 1: "How Do You Teach Fluent Chord Reading?" (Richard Chronister, Editor)
6. Reflection Question
7. Session Resources
8. Exit Survey

About this course

$30.00
33 lessons
0 hours of video content
Fully online, self-paced course
Emphasis on best practices of teaching scales, chords, and arpeggios

Course Contributors

Marvin Blickenstaff, Scott McBride Smith, Forrest Kinney, and more

Course content is comprised of video and written materials from the following sources: Keyboard Companion, Clavier Companion, Piano Magazine, Teaching Foundational Technique, Inspiring Artistry, From the Artist Bench, and webinars.

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