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Piano Foundations: Rhythm & Range

Name: Piano Foundations: Rhythm & Range
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Duration33m

Modules23

LevelBeginner

LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (0h 33m)

- 01. Welcome to the Course
  1:32
- 02. Practice Tips
  1:59
- 01. What Are Tied Notes
  Free lesson
  1:03
- 02. Tied Notes Exercise 1
  1:00
- 03. Tied Notes Exercise 1 (Performance)
  1:23
- 04. Tied Notes Exercise 2
  1:09
- 05. Tied Notes Exercise 2 (Performance)
  1:03
- 06. What Are Eighth Notes
  1:25
- 07. Eighth Note Rhythm Game
  1:48
- 08. Eighth Note Exercise 1
  1:56
- 09. Eighth Note Exercise 1 (Performance)
  1:21
- 10. Eighth Note Exercise 2
  1:31
- 11. Eighth Note Exercise 2 (Performance)
  1:05
- 01. Syncopation Introduction
  1:30
- 02. Syncopation Pt1 (Performance)
  1:07
- 03. Syncopation Pt2
  1:07
- 04. Syncopation Pt2 (Performance)
  1:07
- 05. Push It (Walkthrough)
  2:14
- 06. Push It (Performance)
  0:37
- 01. Over the Octave & Right Hand Jump
  1:52
- 02. Left Hand Jump
  1:40
- 03. Jumping Around (Walkthrough)
  3:13
- 04. Jumping Around (Performance)
  0:46

About this course

Rockschool Limited is the UK's leading awarding body for popular music exams. This course follows the Rockschool syllabus and pieces.

This is Part 1 of the Rockschool Piano Method Pt 2, the second-volume intermediate-beginner course, picking up where the first volume left off. You'll establish solid practice habits, learn tied notes and eighth-note rhythms, work through syncopated phrasing, and extend your playing past the octave (whole-step hand moves and crossings).

By the end of this course you'll have a working rhythmic vocabulary with eighth notes and syncopation, plus the technique to play across more than one octave.

Who it's for

Pianists who completed Rockschool Piano Method Pt 1
Self-taught players ready for eighth-note rhythms
Returning players extending across multiple octaves

What you'll learn

Read and play tied notes and eighth-note rhythms
Apply syncopated phrasing to short pieces
Move your hands across more than one octave with thumb crossings

What you'll need

A piano or weighted-key keyboard
A music stand (or tablet) for the notation
A few minutes most days at the keys

Explore the series · Rockschool Piano Method · Pt 2

Based on Rockschool Piano Method by Rockschool

01
Piano Foundations: Rhythm & Range
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02
Piano Foundations: Theory & Expression
03
Piano Foundations: Harmony & Performance

Meet the Guru

Talia Girton

Talia Girton is a musician and HCPC-registered music therapist, and the founder of The Cycling Music Teachers. Her work brings together music therapy, counselling and education, and she tutors internationally on the music therapy training course at UDELAS in Panama as well as contributing to professional development with the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA). On MusicGurus she teaches the Piano Method and Piano Foundations courses, guiding complete beginners from first steps through rhythm, both hands, theory and performance.

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RSL Awards

RSL Awards (Rockschool) is a UK awarding body specialising in contemporary music, with graded syllabuses for guitar, drums and piano developed over decades. MusicGurus partners with Rockschool to provide video guides and practice sheet music for their grade books, taught by professional musicians - many of whom played on the original performances and backing tracks recorded at Abbey Road and Real World Studios.

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