Lessons 61–80

Piano Unit 4

Lesson 61 Intervals

Video Lesson
16:02
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • What a musical interval is and how to use it
  • Practice identifying intervals on the staff and on the piano

Lesson 62 Lavender's Blue

Video Lesson
18:02
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play the traditional song "Lavender's Blue"
  • Beaming eighth notes in groups of four
  • Review of intervals, extending the major pentascale one note higher to "la"

Lesson 63 Counting the Beat

Video Lesson
11:58
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Meaning and use of time signature
  • How to count the beat while performing rhythms

Lesson 64 Lavender's Blue: Adding Chords

Video Lesson
12:54
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to add a left hand accompaniment to "Lavender's Blue" using chord symbols
  • How to play a "IV" chord in a major key

Lesson 65 Sight Reading with Counting the Beat

Video Lesson
18:20
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Practice Session
6 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Practice sight reading using examples featuring time signature
  • Review the concept of "counting the beat" to maintain a steady beat as you sight read

Lesson 66 Spinning Song

Video Lesson
13:10
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn to play ‘Spinning Song’
  • Treble C position notes on the staff: CDEFG

Lesson 67 Spinning Song: Hands Together

Video Lesson
10:22
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn to play the song ‘Spinning Song’ hands together
  • Practice 2-hand rhythms while counting the beat

Lesson 68 A Major, A Minor, & Playing Staccato

Video Lesson, Part 1
14:27
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Practice Session
8 tasks
Video Lesson, Part 2
9:36

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play the A major & A minor pentascales
  • Learn technique for playing a staccato articulation
  • New term: staccato

Lesson 69 Spinning Upside Down

Video Lesson
9:43
Illustration of Hoffman Academy practice task cards, which look like colored note cards.
Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn to play ‘Spinning Upside Down’
  • Review reading notes on bass staff: Bass CDEFG

Lesson 70 Staff Guide Notes

Video Lesson
8:33
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Review the 7 Guide Notes of the grand staff
  • Practice finding the Guide Notes on the piano

Lesson 71 Bagpipe

Video Lesson
22:16
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Practice Session
7 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn to play the right hand part for ‘Bagpipe,' a 17th century piece
  • New terms: forte, piano, dynamics
  • Review intervals, practice identifying intervals on the staff

Lesson 72 Bagpipe: Hands Together

Video Lesson
9:38
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Practice Session
7 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play the left hand part for 'Bagpipe'

Lesson 73 Half Steps, Whole Steps, and Pentascales (Unit 4)

Video Lesson
13:24
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Review half steps and whole steps
  • How major and minor pentascales are constructed from a pattern of whole steps and one half step

Lesson 74 Debka Hora

Video Lesson
19:14
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play the traditional Israeli melody 'Debka Hora’ using the left hand in D minor
  • New rhythm: eighth note with 2 sixteenth notes

Lesson 75 Melodic Dictation

Video Lesson
15:36
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Practice dictating melodies on the staff with the Melodic Dictation Challenge!

Lesson 76 Debka Hora: Hands Together

Video Lesson
8:59
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Add chords using the right hand to Debka Hora

Lesson 77 Composing in Binary Form

Video Lesson
23:42
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Mr. Hoffman walks you through several steps to compose your own original piece in binary form!
  • New term: binary form

Lesson 78 Ode to Joy (Unit 4)

Video Lesson
23:42
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn to play the 'Ode to Joy' theme, from Beethoven's 9th symphony
  • New rhythms: dotted quarter note and flagged eighth note
  • New term: crescendo

Lesson 79 Sight Reading Challenge (Unit 4)

Video Lesson
15:56
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Practice your sight reading skills with this Sight Reading Challenge!

Lesson 80 Ode to Joy: Hands Together (Unit 4)

Video Lesson
14:15
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 left hand part of 'Ode to Joy'
  • Tips for playing hands together