Lessons 141–160

Piano Unit 8

Lesson 141 Canoe Song: Right Hand

Video Lesson
12:53
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn to play the melody of ‘Canoe Song ‘in C minor
  • Review syncopation
  • Learn and review new fingering techniques: thumb under and finger cross-over

Lesson 142 Guide Notes: Low C & High C

Video Lesson
8:38
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to quickly identify and play two new Guide Notes: High C and Low C
  • Play a "C Hunt" game with Mr. Hoffman to practice finding all the Guide Note C's

Lesson 143 Canoe Song: Hands Together

Video Lesson
10:58
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play ‘Canoe Song’ with both hands
  • Review transposing to other keys

Lesson 144 4-5 Finger Skip

Video Lesson
8:40
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Develop increased finger strength, coordination and agility with this Finger Power exercise

Lesson 145 Deta, Deta: Right Hand

Video Lesson
13:16
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play a traditional Japanese folk song
  • How to navigate new fingering challenges, including the finger cross-over

Lesson 146 Deta, Deta : Hands Together

Video Lesson
9:05
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play ‘Deta, Deta’ with both hands using octave displacement in the left hand

Lesson 147 Sight Reading Challenge (Unit 8)

Video Lesson
17:37
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Can you handle Mr. Hoffman's Sight Reading Challenge using exercises from Sight Reading Trainer Book 3? Try it and find out!

Lesson 148 Deta, Deta: Improvisation

Video Lesson
10:16
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to improvise in the F major pentatonic scale

Lesson 149 Rhythm Review

Video Lesson
12:32
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Review the relationship of rhythm and beat
  • Review the relative values and durations of all notes and rests learned in prior lessons
  • Take the rhythm challenge!

Lesson 150 Dragon Night

Video Lesson, Part 1
15:13
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Practice Session
9 tasks
Video Lesson, Part 2
13:54
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn an original ‘techno pop’ song composed by Mr. Hoffman
  • How to navigate new fingering challenges
  • In Part 2, review reading chords from a lead sheet to play an accompaniment in the left hand

Lesson 151 1-2 Finger Skip: Hands Together

Video Lesson
5:37
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play the 1-2 finger skip with both hands, ascending and descending

Lesson 152 When the Saints Go Marching In: Right Hand

Video Lesson
15:56
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn to play the melody of this American folk hymn, made famous by jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong

Lesson 153 When the Saints Go Marching In: Left Hand

Video Lesson
15:59
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Review I, V7 and IV chords in the key of C
  • How to play the bass clef part of ‘When the Saints Go Marching In’
  • How to read and play bass clef "Low C"

Lesson 154 When the Saints Go Marching In: Hands Together

Video Lesson
17:07
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play ‘When the Saints Go Marching In’ with both hands

Lesson 155 Melodic Dictation (Unit 8)

Video Lesson
13:30
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Practice Session
7 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Develop your aural skills with this lesson focused on melodic dictation
  • Practice dictating melodies on a blank staff

Lesson 156 Tetrachords

Video Lesson
15:32
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • New term: tetrachord
  • How to create a one-octave major scale from two tetrachords
  • How to play "Follow Me" using tetrachords

Lesson 157 Key Signatures and the Ladder of Fifths

Video Lesson
20:11
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • What is the purpose and meaning of Key Signature
  • How to play a 1-octave scale in several different major keys on the Ladder of Fifths
  • The "order of sharps" for key signatures

Lesson 158 Chumbara

Video Lesson
15:40
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play "Chumbara," a folk song from Quebec
  • The meaning and notation for first and second endings

Lesson 159 Key Signatures and the Ladder of Fifths: Part 2

Video Lesson
12:28
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Complete the Ladder of Fifths theory page
  • Discover all remaining key signatures with sharps

Lesson 160 Chumbara: Accompaniment

Video Lesson
14:07
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Practice Session
8 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to improvise a 2-hand accompaniment for "Chumbara" using chord symbols