About the position of
the body. About the position of the hands. About the position of the fingers. About fingering. Technical
aspects of the piano.
UNIT 1
Notes.- Staff.-
Additional lines.- Note values.- Rets.- Clefs.- Bar lines.- Time signature.-
Stress.
Exercises for the right and left hands
separately.
Tie or bind.-
Dot.
Exercises for the two hands.- Holding notes.- Exercises on
third.- Change of fingers.
Syncopation.- Notes
against the beat.
UNIT 2
Accidentals.- Enharmony.-
Abbreviations.- Tempo.
Exercises
for the two hands.
Pause.- The abbreviation.-
Repetition signs.- Special value groupings.
Extension
exercises.
UNIT
3
Dynamics.- Accentuation
signs.- Articulation (Phrasing).- Intervals.- Semitone and tone.-
Consonance and dissonance.- Tonality or key.- Scale.- Diatonic scale and chromatic
scale.-
Modality or mode.- Scale grades.- Analysis of the grades in a diatonic scale.-
Tonal
and modal grades.- Tonality framework.
UNIT
4
Chords.- Triads.- Four-note
chords.- Chord inversion.- Chord voices.-
The layout chords.- Arpeggios.- The major mode.- To form triads.-
Classification of the triads.- To form Four-note chords.- Classification
of the Four-note Chords.- Greek modes.- Graphic representation of triads.-
Graphic representation of Four-note chords.-
UNIT
5
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, 3, 5.
(Major triad).
Movement or progression:
By minor seconds. By Major seconds. By minor thirds.
......................................... By cycle of fifths.
By cycle of fifths, keeping
......................................... harmonic continuity.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, b3, 5. (Minor triad)
Name
the grades in scale.
Name
the tonal grades.
UNIT
7
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, b3, b5.
(Diminished triad).
Name
the modal grades.
Build
the triads on every grade of the scale.
UNIT
8
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, 3, 5, 6.
(Major chord with sixth).
Build the Four-note
chord on every grade of the scale.
UNIT
9
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, 3, 5, 7. (Major chord with Major seventh).
The Major Ionian scale.
Holding
notes.
Piano Master
II
UNIT
1
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, b3, 5, b7.
(Minor Four-note chord with minor seventh).
The minor natural Æolian
scale.
The Dorian scale.
The Phrygian scale.
UNIT
2
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, 3, 5, b7.
(Major Four-note chord with minor seventh = Dominat).
The Mixolydian scale.
Write
chords in their root position and their inversions.
Write
the inversion and disposition of chords.
Holding
notes.
UNIT
3
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises. Formula 1, b3, b5, b7.
(Minor Four-note chord with minor seventh and diminished fifth).
The Locrian scale.
Holding
notes.
Write
chord symbols.
The Lydian scale.
UNITS
4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10
Exercises
on Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Æolian and Locrian scales. Progression by minor seconds. Major seconds. Minor thirds. Cycle of fifths. Direcctions: Ascending. Descending.
Charts to write the
intervalic formula of Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian,Æolian
and Locrian scales.
Staffs to write the
Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian,Æolian
and Locrian scales.
UNIT
11
Harmonising a melody.-
Harmonisation types.- Main notes.- Secondary notes.
Chord vocing.- Closed position.- Open position.- Harmonic movement.
Melodic
and Harmonic Exercises on Major chords with a Major seventh and the Ionian
Major scale.
Write
chord symbols.
Grade
and tonal function of chords.
UNIT
12
Tendencies of the scale
grades.- Tonal functions.- Tonal function of the Major scale
chords.- Tonic chords.-Subdominant chords.-Dominant chords.- Chart of harmonic
movements.
Melodic
exercises on the Major mode.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises on the minor Four-note chord and the Æolian scale.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises on the minor Four-note chord and the Dorian scale.
UNIT
13
Placing chord symbols.-Placing
chords within the harmonic phrase.- Cadences.-
Perfect cadences.- Plagal cadences.- Interrupted cadences.- Imperfect cadences.
Harmonic
pattern II-7 / I Maj 7. Root position and their inversions.
Melodic
and Harmonic pattern II-7 / I Maj 7 and Dorian and Ionian scales. Root position
and their inversions.
Melodic
and Harmonic pattern V7 and the Mixolydian scale. Root position and their inversions.
II - V Relationship.-
Sequence.
Exercises
to state the grade and tonal function of chords.
Place
chords that form cadences in different tonalities.
Harmonic
pattern II-7 / V7 / I Maj 7 / I6. Root position and their inversions.
Piano Master
III
UNIT
1
Non-diatonic chords.-
Secondary Dominants.-Inserted II-7 .- Extended Dominants.
Most commonly used patterns.- Anatole or Anatol.
Melodic
and Harmonic pattern II-7 / V7 / I Maj 7 / I6. Root position and their inversions.
Harmonic
pattern II-7 / V7 / II-7 / V7 / I6. Root position and their inversions.
Harmonic
pattern V7/VI / V7/II / V7/V / V7 / I6. Root position and their inversions.
Harmonic
pattern II-7(b5) / V7/VI / II-7 / V7/II / II-7 / V7/V / II-7 / V7 / I Maj 7.
Root position and their inversions.
UNIT
2
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises on the Major mode.
UNIT
3
The minor mode.- The
natural minor scale (Æolian).-Triads and Four-note chord formed on the minor
natural scale (Æolian).-Tonal functions of the minor mode (Æolian).- The Harmonic
minor scale.- Triads and Four-note chord formed on every grade of theHarmonic
minor scale.-
Tonal functions of the Harmonic minor scale grades.- The melodic minor scale.-
Triads and Four-note chords built on the melodic minor scale.- Tonal functions
of the melodic minor scale grades.
UNIT
4
Keyborad area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises formula 1, 3, #5.
(Major triad and augmented fifth).
Build
the triads in the minor natural mode.
UNIT
5
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises formula 1, b3, 5, 6.
(Minor chord with sixth)
Build
the Four-note chords in the minor natural mode.
UNIT
6
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises formula 1, b3, 5, 7.
(Minor chord with Major seventh)
The minor Harmonic scale.
The minor Melodic scale.
Build
the triads in the minor Harmonic mode.
UNIT
7
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises formula 1, 3, #5, 7.
(Major chord with Major seventh and augmented fifth).
Build
the Four-note chords in the minor Melodic mode.
UNIT
8
Keyboard area.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises formula1, b3, b5, bb7.
(Minor chord with diminished fifth and dininished seventh).
Build
triads and Four-note chords in the minor Melodic mode.
UNIT
9
Exercises
on the minor Harmonic scale.
Charts
to write the intervalic formula of the minor Harmonic scale.
Staffs
to write the minor Harmonic scale.
UNIT
10
Exercises
on the minor Melodic scale.
Charts
to write the intervalic formula of the minor Melodic scale.
Staffs
to write the minor Melodic scale.
UNIT
11
Harmonic
pattern II-7(b5) / I-7. Root position and their inversions.
UNIT
12
Harmonic
and Melodic exercises on the minor natural mode.
UNIT
13
The tensions.- Scale-chord
relationship.- Major mode chords and their tensions.- Non-diatonic
chords and their tensions.- Secondary Dominants and their tensions.- Tensions
of the
extended Dominants.- Tensions of the relative seconds.- Other Major mode chords
and their
Tensions.
Melodic
exercises on the I Maj 7 (9) chord.
UNIT
14
Chord
voicings.- Position A and Positions B.-Voicings with tensions.
Harmonic
Pattern II-7 / V/ / I Maj 7 / I6 with tensions. Positions A and B.
Patterns
with tensions and rolling bass.
Piano Master
IV
UNIT
1
Modal interchange.-
Modal interchange chords.- Substitute Dominants (Sus).- II-7 Relatives
of substitute Dominants.- The connection betwen a substitute Dominant and the
V7 alt.-
Dominants formed on each diatonic and chromatic grade.
Harmonic
pattern II-7 / sus V7 / I Maj 7. Root position and their inversions.
UNIT
2
Harmonic
pattern II-7 / V7 alt / I Maj 7 / I6. Root position and their inversions.
Harmonic
pattern II-7 / V7sus4 / V7 / I Maj 7 / I6. Root position and their inversions.
Rhythmic anticipation.
UNIT
3
The Lydian flat seventh
scale.
Practice
of the Lydian flat seventh scale.
UNIT
4
How to play eighth notes.
(Swing).
Melodic
and Harmonic pattern II-7 / susV7/I / I Maj 7. Root position and their inversions.
UNIT
5
The arpeggios.
Arpeggios
build on triads.
Arpeggios
build on Major Four-note chords with sixth.
Arpeggios
build on minor Four-note chords with minor sixth.
Arpeggios
build on Major Four-note chords with Major seventh.
Arpeggios
build on minor Four-note chords with minor seventh.
Arpeggios
build on Major Four-note chords with minor seventh.
Arpeggios
build on minor Four-note chords with minor seventh and diminished fifth.
Arpeggios
build on Major Four-note chords with Major seventh and augmented fifth.
Arpeggios
build on minor Four-note chords with Major seventh.
Arpeggios
build on minor Four-note chords with diminished fifth and diminished seventh.
Arpeggios
build on Major Four-note chords with Major seventh and augmented fourth.
Arpeggios
build on Major Four-note chords with minor seventh and b9.
Arpeggios build on Major Four-note chords with minor seventh and b9 - b13.
Practice
of different arpeggios by playing the notes of the chord chromatically.
UNIT
6
THE PENTATONIC SCALES.
Exercises
on the pentatonic scale starting on grade I.
Exercises
on the pentatonic scale starting on grade II.
Exercises
on the pentatonic scale starting on grade III.
Exercises
on the pentatonic scale starting on grade IV.
Exercises
on the pentatonic scale starting on grade V.
Write
in the staff the Major pentatonic scale.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercise on the Major pentatonic scale.
Write
in the staff the minor pentatonic scale.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercise on the minor pentatonic scale.
UNIT
7
Exercise
on the Major pentatonic scale.
UNIT
8
Exercise
on the minor pentatonic scale.
UNIT
9
THE BLUES
Historical context of
the Blues.
Melodic structure.
Harmonic struture.
Metrical structure.
Practice
on Blues scales.
Write
the Blues scale in the staff.
Major
Blues Harmonic pattern.
Minor
Blues Harmonic pattern.
Blues
Harmonic and Melodic exercises.
UNIT
10
Turnarounds or Turnback.-
Artificial scales.
Patterns
on turnarounds.
Exercises
on the symmetrical scales.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises on diminished symmetrical scale and diminished chords.
UNIT
11
THE JAZZ
Historical context of
the Jazz.
The
Bebop Mixolydian scales.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises on the Bebop Mixolydian scales.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises on the Bebop Mixolydian scales starting on grade IIIº.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises on the Bebop Mixolydian scales starting on grade Vº.
Melodic
and Harmonic exercises on the Bebop Mixolydian scales starting on grade bVIIº.
One
handred Bebop phrases.
UNIT
12
Seventy-five
Melodic and Harmonic exercises on the open-chord voicings.
