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Piano Method: First Steps
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CoursePianoRockBeginnerPart 1 of 3
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Piano Method: First Steps

Talia Girton

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Duration29m
Modules21
LevelBeginner
LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (0h 29m)

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 official Rockschool Piano Method, the first course in a beginner sequence. You'll be welcomed to the piano, learn the basics of posture and hand position, play your first pieces (right hand only), and meet the first pitches on the stave.

By the end of this course you'll be reading a few notes on the treble clef, playing simple right-hand melodies and ready to add the left hand in Part 2.

Who it's for

  • Total beginners at the piano
  • Parents helping a young learner start piano
  • Returning players coming back to fundamentals

What you'll learn

  • Adopt comfortable posture and hand position at the piano
  • Recognise white-key notes by sight on the keyboard
  • Play simple right-hand pieces from treble-clef notation

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 1

Based on Rockschool Piano Method by Rockschool

  1. Piano Method: First Steps
    01
    Piano Method: First Steps
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  2. Piano Method: Both Hands
    02
    Piano Method: Both Hands
  3. Piano Method: Growing Skills
    03
    Piano Method: Growing Skills

Meet the Guru

Talia Girton

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 (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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