MUSC 1171 Piano Class I

Group lessons in piano for music majors only.

Credits

1

Typically Offered

Demorest Campus: fall day

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Demonstrate basic keyboard skills (proper posture and hand position, keyboard technique, fingering, and proficiency), literacy of music notation, and concepts of music theory, through the playing of five-finger patterns, scales, octave arpeggios, triads, chord qualities, inversions, and beginning chord progressions.
2. Coordinate critical thinking skills in the synthesis of knowledge gained, through harmonization, transposition, and playing of accompaniment patterns such as block and broken chords.
3. Have established effective daily practice strategies that will enable them to reach the specified performance goals.
4. Employ the sight-reading process, by showing the ability to sight read piano music appropriate to this class level of proficiency.