Lessons 41–60

Piano Unit 3

Lesson 41 E Major & Minor Pentascale

Video Lesson
14:02
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play the E major and minor pentascale
  • How to play the I and V7 in E major and minor
  • Review proper technique and posture for playing "Stepping & Skipping" finger exercise

Lesson 42 Love Somebody

Video Lesson
12:00
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play ‘Love Somebody’ using the right hand
  • Review of the E major pentascale, sixteenth notes

Lesson 43 Sharps

Video Lesson
6:43
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Practice Session
7 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • What is a sharp and how it works on the keyboard and on the staff
  • Review half-steps

Lesson 44 Love Somebody: Left Hand

Video Lesson
11:34
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play ‘Love Somebody’ using the left hand and hands together
  • I and V7 chords in E major

Lesson 45 Sight Reading: Steps & Repeats

Video Lesson
11:11
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Practice Session
7 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Develop your sight reading skills using simple melodies on a 1-line staff
  • Tips for learning to read and play music from the staff on your first try, by "sight"
  • New term: Sight Reading

Lesson 46 Mary Had A Little Lamb

Video Lesson
15:23
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Practice Session
7 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ in the key of E major
  • New rhythm: Dotted eighth with sixteenth note

Lesson 47 Sight Reading: Skips

Video Lesson
8:07
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Practice Session
6 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Practice sight reading skips on a one-line staff
  • Review steps and techniques for practicing sight reading

Lesson 48 Mary Had a Little Lamb: Adding Chords

Video Lesson
9:48
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Practice Session
7 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn to add chords to ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’
  • Practice drawing the I and V7 chord in the bass staff

Lesson 49 Improvisation with Mary Had a Little Lamb

Video Lesson
15:54
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Practice Session
6 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Practice improvising in the E major pentascale
  • Practice recognizing I and V7 chord by ear

Lesson 50 Time Signature, Measures & Barlines

Video Lesson
14:07
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Practice Session
6 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • New terms: Barlines, Measures, Time Signature
  • Review: Whole Note, Dotted Half Note
  • Practice placing barlines to make measures and solving time signatures for various musical examples

Lesson 51 Silver Birch Tree

Video Lesson
12:42
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • 4/4 time signature
  • Play ‘Silver Birch Tree’ while looking at the notes on the treble staff

Lesson 52 Sight Reading in the Treble and Bass Clef

Video Lesson
14:05
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Practice Session
5 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Strategies for successful sight reading using the treble and bass staves
  • Review Guide Notes Bass F and Treble G

Lesson 53 Silver Birch Tree: The IV Chord

Video Lesson
9:16
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play i, iv, and V7 chords in D minor position
  • Correct fingering for the iv chord
  • Review meaning of flats

Lesson 54 Flats

Video Lesson
8:50
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • What is a flat and how it affects notes on the staff and on the piano
  • Review of sharps, half-steps

Lesson 55 Phrasing & Expression

Video Lesson
11:30
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Practice Session
7 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to use dynamics across a musical phrase to create a beautiful, artistic musical statement
  • New terms: phrasing, expression

Lesson 56 I Have a Dog

Video Lesson
21:22
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to figure out a melody 'by ear' and dictate the notes and rhythms on the staff yourself
  • How to play 'I Have a Dog' in C major

Lesson 57 I Have a Dog: Adding Chords

Video Lesson
9:19
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn to add chords to ‘I Have a Dog’ by ear
  • Review I and V7 chord in C major

Lesson 58 F Major & Minor Pentascale

Video Lesson
13:28
Illustration of Hoffman Academy practice task cards, which look like colored note cards.
Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play the F major and F minor pentascale using proper piano posture and technique
  • Review "Stepping and Skipping" finger exercise in similar and contrary motion
  • Review the V7 chord

Lesson 59 Oranges and Lemons

Video Lesson
18:31
Illustration of Hoffman Academy practice task cards, which look like colored note cards.
Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn to play the traditional song ‘Oranges and Lemons’ in the key of F major
  • Learn to shift hand position in the middle of a song, from F major to C major
  • Review D.C. al fine

Lesson 60 Oranges and Lemons: Hands Together

Video Lesson
16:17
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Add chords in the left hand to ‘Oranges and Lemons’
  • New chords: Fsus4 and Csus4