FUNCTIONAL PIANO 2180 Spring 2015

Text: Alfred’s GROUP PIANO BOOK 2 Carolyn Savko

Room 367F Fine Arts Section 001 TTH 8:30am Phone 817-272-1387

Required: Bring own headphones and jack to every class

COURSE DESCRIPTION; The prerequisite is 1180,1181 or permission from the instructor after playing and sight-reading. Concentrated work on scales, hands together. Expanded chord vocabulary, sight-reading, literature and improvising. Students will be graded on preparation and playing of assignments.

Week 1 Scales: C, G 1, Chords: Starting , first and second inversions: I IV I64 V7 I 2, Improvise over the chord pattern: I IV I V I I IV V7 I May be Alberti Bass, Waltz Bass , Broken Chord

3 Play from lead sheet: First do two handed accompaniment RH plays 3 note chord LH plays bass Second- Play melody in RH Chords in LH 4. Pre-Hymn Exercise #1 - use pedal to connect chords Transpose to G

Week 2 Scales D. A Do number 1,2,3 from above in key of D and A 4. - to be passed out in class

5. Start Pleasant Morning first part

6. Pre hymn exercise #2 in D, transpose to A

Week 3 Scales E, B 1.Chords 2. Improvise over chord pattern I vi IV V I I ii6 V7 I 3, Lead sheet two handed accompaniment

4, Pleasant Morning 5. Hymn exercises in E.B

Week 4 TEST

Day 1 SCALES REQUIRED C, G, A, E, B Chords root, first and second inversions Draw for two scales. Scale one ______(10) Scale two ______(10)

Chords ______(10) Chords ______(10)

Improvise over either I vi IV V I ii6 V7 I (10)

or I IV I V I I IV V7 I

Day 2 Pleasant Morning all (40)

Accuracy_____ Fingering____ Continuity___ Dynamics_____

Lead sheet – Choose one to play melody in RH (10) Chords in left- any style

Week 5 Scales a minor, e minor harmonic form 1. Chords 2. Ranger Ballgame in 3. Accompany folk song 4. Sight read from book 5. Review circle of fourths in first inversion 6. Start Musette

Week 6. Scales F#, C# 1. Chords 2. 3. 3 exercise 4. Improvise pentatonic tune with 5th in left hand 5. Lead sheet- play two handed accompaniment (three chord tones in RH, bass in LH) 6. Read from book 7. Work on Musette

Week 7 F 1. Scale 2. Chords 3. Read from book 4. Ranger Ballgame in second inversion 5. HT in , HA inversions 6. Lead Sheet tune 7. Figured Bass 8. Musette

Week 8 Spring Break

Week 9 Bflat 1. Scale and chords 2. Arpeggio Hands alone, root position, first and second inversions 3. Dominant Seventh arpeggio 4. Figured Bass 5. Read in Book 6. Improvise using Alberti Bass I vi IV V I IV I64 V7 I 7. Musette – all

Week 10 TEST Day 1 1. Draw for one scale from a, e. (harmonic) F#, C#, F . B Flat is required 2. Arpeggios root position only HT. Chords Scale #1______10 BFlat ______10

Chords #1______10 Bflat______10

Arpeggio #1______5 Arpeggio_Bflat_____5

TEST Day 2

1. Musette – all ______20 2. Choose lead sheet ______( 10) Plat melody in RH and chords in Left

3. Improvise on I vi IV V I IV V7 I (10) Play closest movement. NOT FROM ROOT to ROOT

4. Accompany a melody (10)

Week 11 1. Scales Eflat d minor harmonic

2. Chords Arpeggios Eflat HA, d minor HT

3. Secondary Dominants

4. Work on Sonatina

5. Chord progression I 07/ii ii 07/iii ii V4 I in C major. G major 3 6. Lead sheet Melody

Week 12

1. Scales Aflat g minor (Harmonic form)

2. Chords, arpeggios

3. Secondary Dominants

4. Work on Sonatina

5. Read in book

6 .Pre-hymn #3

7. Lead sheet chords

Week 13

1. Scales Dflat c minor Harmonic

2. Chords, arpeggios Dflat HA c minor root HT. Inversions HA 3. Secondary Dominants

4. Sonatina

5. Pre-hymn #4

7. Read in Book 8. Work on Lead Sheet

Week 14

1. Scales G flat f minor

2. Chords, arpeggio G flat HA f minor Root HT

3. Figured Bass to be passed out in class

4. Fill in chord tones

5. Sonatina

Week 15

1. C flat Scale , chords, arpeggio

2. I 07/V V4 I6 viio I 2 6

3. Read #5 Pre-Hymn ex.

4. Sonatina

5. Lead sheet- melody and chords

6. Sight read in book

7. Accompany melody using broken chord

Week 16 TESTS

1. Sonatina all of first movement (50)

2. Secondary Dominant Progression(10)

3. Figured Bass (10)

4. Lead Sheet (10)

5. Accompanying melody(10)

6. Chord Progressions I vi IV ii6 I64 V7 I in G, start in first inversion in RH I I7 IV V7/V I (10)