Piano Lab: Chords to Sing By
Course Description
Summary
Learn how to find and play piano chords to your favorite songs. Learn about major and minor chords, seventh chords, common chord progressions, harmonic rhythm, and how to accompany yourself while you sing. This class will focus on how to interpret chord symbols from lead sheets and chord charts and will not focus on reading sheet music. Songs will be a combination of selections made by the instructor and selections chosen by the students.
Class will meet weekly in the Jennings keyboard lab, work on the day鈥檚 prompt and then share our work with the class. In the final weeks of the semester, the students have the option to play in a group recital.
Students are expected to practice daily for at least ten minutes. Contact the instructor with questions.
Learning Outcomes
- -Experience and identify the notes of the keyboard and their relationships.
-Learn to read and play the notes of common major and minor triads.
-Understand and follow their favorite songs in lyric, lead sheet, and chord chart formats.
-Improvise using common rhythms in meters like 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8.
-Grasp key music theory ideas like major and minor scales and chords, key signatures, and markings of style and interpretation.