Music Piano

Equips students with basic skills that apply to any standard keyboard, including the acoustic piano, electronic keyboard, synthesizer, harpsichord, or organ. Emphasizes on note reading, rhythms, chords, harmonic progressions, fingering patterns, scales, and beginning technique. For non-music majors.

Continues lessons from PIAN 011.

Provides practical instruction in adapting hymns/songs for worship service playing and for creative solo arrangement.

Provides music majors taking piano as a secondary instrument opportunity to focus on developing the fundamental skills needed to both pass the piano proficiency exam and function successfully in a music career. Topics include basic keyboard technique and theory, sight-reading, improvisation and harmonization of melodies, transposition, and repertoire of an appropriate level. Assigned music difficulty increases as the semester progresses.

Continues lessons from PIAN 111.

Continues lessons from PIAN 112. Includes portions of the piano proficiency exam.

Continues lessons from PIAN 211. Includes completion of the piano proficiency exam, which the student must pass to receive credit.