STORY-TELLERS
AGE GROUP: Beginners 6 years+
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COURSE DURATION: Cyclical
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CLASS LESSON: 45 min/week
CLASS SIZE: <6 students/class
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ONE PARENT/CARER: Optional
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INSTRUMENT: Piano or keyboard is required for home practice
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Students aged 6+ can begin in our Storytellers program. Songs are used to illustrate stories and students learn keyboard geography, finger numbers, rhythms, and musical elements through learning to play those songs. Many even sing with their own playing! Storytellers books come in both a pre-reader and a reader version (the latter having pitch notation) and will be used depending on the age and prior knowledge of the student.
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Storytellers - Skills and Concepts
Musical Elements
Dynamics: pp, p, f, ff, crescendo
Tempo: Adagio, Andante, Allegro, Presto
Structure: Using A, B and C to describe sections; AB Binary form; finished and unfinished phrases
Pitch: Middle C, treble C
Melodies: move by step, 2nds, 3rds, 5ths and octaves
Pitch Names/Notation
Pre-reader version – melodic
contour with rhythmic notation
Reader version – treble clef notation – middle C to treble F
Bubble hand
5-finger C position – RH
Moving hand position
Playing in octaves (across RH and LH)
Concept of staccato and legato, beginning technique
Rhythms & Time Signatures
Crotchets, minims, semibreves
Songs in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4
Scales, Chords & Keys
Songs in C major, A minor
C major scale
Chords I and Vb in C major
