About the Program:
Music is another form of language!
-Express inner feelings by creating stories through music
-Understand musical ideas, style and basic history in different form of music (All Era)
-Compose and make your own kinds of music
-Be creative and make up stories on songs that you hear and play
-Explore the sounds of the piano (Low like dinosaurs or high like a bird)
-Keeping a fun, energetic and interactive learning environment
Basic Theory:
– music notation
– time values
– major and minor scales
– intervals
– chords
– semitones, whole tones and accidentals
– finding key of the music or a melody
– learning meter and basic time signatures
Technique:
-Developing basic motor skills, technical control, finger strength and hand independence, two hands coordination
-Developing healthy technique such as sitting posture, arm weight, hand position, thumb movement and finger movements
-Basic articulation touches : legato, staccato and detached
-Fingering strategy to create smooth hand movement
-Approaches to tone production
-Dynamics: understand the style and the tone of the music, express the music by telling stories, create a mood in music by playing soft, loud and more…
-Sight reading: music notation, how to read notes quick
-Ear Training: rhythm clapping, melody playback, identify intervals and chords
-Finding musical patterns: developing sense of rhythm
-Practice with the metronome: achieving a steady tempo from very slow to slow, slow to fast and fast to very fast