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How to Play Piano volume 20
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Reflect on the relationship between parallel major and minor keys. For example, D major and D minor are not relative keys (like C major and A minor), but they do have an intriguing relationship. In this exploration, you will refine your technique for harmonizing melodies and learn the "Bell Melody" and "Elephant Stroll."
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How to Play Piano volume 32
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Through much of this course, you have worked on some challenging masterpieces, many of which require difficult hand shifts and much practice. Here, Professor Pike shares a few strategies for "deliberate practice," a systematic way to help you through the challenges. Learn a new harmonization example in the key of E minor.
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How to Play Piano volume 35
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Like its counterparts in art and literature, impressionism is a powerful musical movement that conveys a vague aural picture through interesting chords and progressions. Claude Debussy is the master of impressionism, and you will review his approach - and see how una corda pedal can help you mirror his sound.
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How to Play Piano volume 10
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Here, build on the last episode about chord inversions and take a deeper look at the dominant chord. Try your hand at transposing a new chord progression into various keys, and then practice some C major cross-hand arpeggios. The move may be tricky at first, but Professor Pike gives you plenty of time to practice.
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How to Play Piano volume 33
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Music in the 20th and 21st centuries comes in many different styles. Here, you will survey a few common trends and find out about some of the more highly regarded composers of the past century, including programmatic music of Jean Sibelius and Béla Bartók, as well as computer-generated sounds and non-traditional piano techniques.
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How to Play Piano volume 2
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After reviewing the introductory finger patterns you learned in the first episode, delve into the concepts of pitch and meter. Find out about the concept of measures and different types of notes. Then explore the C major five-finger pattern and play it in action with your first étude.
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How to Play Piano volume 25
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It's time. You've learned enough about music theory and notation that you are ready to tackle sight-reading head-on. Here, you will be introduced to several new sight-reading pieces as well as a technical étude. You'll also continue your study of the Dance in D Major and the Sonata in C.
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How to Play Piano volume 27
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Continue your exploration of piano technique as it developed in the Romantic era. After some warm-up work on scales and extended arpeggios, you will find out what makes Chopin's style so interesting, and what made Liszt such a virtuoso. Conclude with a lullaby from Brahms.
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How to Play Piano volume 29
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By now, you have learned enough music from the masters that you are participating in a musical tradition. Revisit the sonata form and consider the modified "mini sonatina" form. Practice with "Brahms's Lullaby", Gurlitt's Waltz in C, Liszt's Liebestraum, and a theme from Mozart's Sonata in C.
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How to Play Piano volume 8
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Transposition - moving a melody from one key to another - is an important skill often under-used in traditional piano episodes for beginners. It provides an opportunity to get to know the different musical keys and can help you jazz around with an old piece of repertoire. Practice transposition with a few melodies, including "Woodland Jaunt."
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How to Play Piano volume 15
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So far, you've been practicing five-finger scales, but in Western music, a complete scale is an octave, or eight notes. Expand your abilities to play full eight-note scales, and practice with C major, G major and D major. In addition to working on your existing repertoire, you'll add the jazzy "Minor Romp" and "A Turkish Tune" to the mix.
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How to Play Piano volume 9
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This episode will enrich your musical life by building the technical foundation upon which piano music is based. Inverted chords (moving the lowest note of a triad up an octave) is a complex musical detail that will open your ears for future episodes. Learn to recognize how inversions look on the staff and the correct fingerings to play them.
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How to Play Piano volume 16
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Hone the new musical skills you learned in Episode 15. After reviewing scales and learning to harmonize a minor melody, you'll experiment with a new rhythm pattern. Dig into "A Turkish Tune" to isolate problem spots, and then try your hand at a theme from Beethoven's Minuet in G.
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How to Play Piano volume 11
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Find out about a practice technique called "blocking," which will help you recognize chord patterns more easily - a major step toward sight-reading. Practice three types of accompaniment patterns: the broken-chord pattern, the waltz (3/4 time) pattern, and the Alberti bass pattern.
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How to Play Piano volume 21
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Over the past few episodes, you have moved from very basic off-staff rhythms and pitches to much more complicated rhythmic patterns. Today's episode takes your knowledge of the minor keys to a whole new level as you examine the natural, harmonic, and melodic forms of the minor scale. Also, witness "syncopation" in action in Swing Low.
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How to Play Piano volume 12
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In this episode, you'll discover the final five-finger pattern - G flat - rounding out your knowledge of key signatures. You'll continue working to harmonize melodies with the accompaniment patterns you learned in Episode 11, and you will begin a new technique - using the damper pedal.
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How to Play Piano volume 28
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In this episode, you will refine much of your existing repertoire. You'll then try your hand at Liszt's Liebestraum. While this piece can be quite challenging for students, Professor Pike has created a special arrangement designed for your current level of ability. Work on adding musical expression to these Romantic-era pieces.
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How to Play Piano volume 5
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Begin to familiarize yourself with the landmark pitches on the staff. By practicing various five-finger patterns (including C major, D major, E major, and A major), you will soon be able to match a tune to a specific tempo. This episode also introduces the concept of "chords," a triad of notes that allow for richer accompaniment.
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How to Play Piano volume 4
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"Tempo" refers to speed in music, and it can be measured with a metronome. Continue working on the interplay of harmony and melody. When you add time to the equation, you can explore "intervals," or pitches in a scale. You've learned enough at this point to study basic notation - the first step toward musical mastery.
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How to Play Piano volume 24
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Continue your study of the Classical period with a look at one of the most important forms in piano music: the sonata-allegro. See why the seventh chords are so important for classical music, and then survey the life and music of Haydn. Practice Mozart's Sonata in C and Haydn's Dance in D Major.
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