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