Lessons 181–200

Piano Unit 10

Lesson 181 Promenade

Video Lesson
20:45
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play "Promenade" by American composer Alexander Reinagle
  • Review key signature for G major / E minor

Lesson 182 Promenade: Left Hand

Video Lesson
16:00
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Practice Session
12 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play the left hand part for "Promenade" by Reinagle
  • Practice tips using the metronome

Lesson 183 Sight Reading Challenge

Video Lesson
16:39
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Practice your sight reading skills with today's Sight Reading Challenge!

Lesson 184 D Major Scale & Arpeggio

Video Lesson
14:40
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Practice Session
12 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Proper technique and fingering for playing the D major scale and arpeggio using right hand or left hand
  • Review key signature and "ladder of 5ths"

Lesson 185 Diatonic Chords & Chord Progressions

Video Lesson
20:58
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • New term: Diatonic chords
  • How to play all diatonic chords in the key of C
  • How to use diatonic chords to play chord progressions

Lesson 186 Heart and Soul

Video Lesson
13:28
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Apply your knowledge of diatonic chords by learning to improvise an accompaniment for "Heart and Soul"

Lesson 187 Improvisation with Heart and Soul

Video Lesson
17:17
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Practice improvising in the key of C major, G major, and D major over a diatonic chord progression

Lesson 188 The Bear

Video Lesson
21:17
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play the right hand part for "The Bear" by Russian composer Vladimir Rebikov
  • New term: Whole-tone scale

Lesson 189 Blues Scale in A

Video Lesson
12:22
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play and improvise using the blues scale in A
  • How to "swing" eighth notes

Lesson 190 The Bear: Hands Together

Video Lesson
13:31
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play "The Bear" by Vladimir Rebikov using both hands
  • Review reading low ledger line notes on bass staff

Lesson 191 Chord Inversions

Video Lesson
16:21
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • New term: Inversions
  • How to play chords in root position, first inversion, and second inversion using right hand or left hand

Lesson 192 Sight Reading Challenge

Video Lesson
17:24
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Practice your sight reading skills with today's Sight Reading Challenge!

Lesson 193 Minuet in C

Video Lesson
16:39
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play the right hand part for "Minuet in C" by Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • New terms: Baroque era, harpsichord, minuet

Lesson 194 Ladder of Fourths

Video Lesson
25:32
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to build one-octave scales on the ladder of fourths
  • Key signatures with flats
  • Review of tetrachords, whole steps, and half steps

Lesson 195 Minuet in C: Left Hand

Video Lesson
21:04
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play the left hand part for "Minuet in C" by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Lesson 196 F Major Scale, Arpeggio & Chords

Video Lesson
12:44
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Proper fingering and technique for playing scales, arpeggios, and diatonic chords in F major using both right hand and left hand

Lesson 197 Minuet in C: Hands Together

Video Lesson
16:12
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Practice techniques and tips for mastering "Minuet in C" using both hands
  • Review technique for using arm weight for a rich tone
  • How to shape each phrase using dynamics

Lesson 198 D Minor Scales & Arpeggio

Video Lesson
14:29
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • Proper fingering and technique for playing the natural and harmonic scales and arpeggio in D minor
  • Tips for improvising your own melody in D minor

Lesson 199 When Johnny Comes Marching Home

Video Lesson
18:25
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Practice Session
10 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to play "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
  • New term: pickup beat / Review 6/8 time signature

Lesson 200 When Johnny Comes Marching Home: Accompaniment

Video Lesson
18:23
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Practice Session
9 tasks

What You’ll Learn

  • How to improvise an accompaniment for "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
  • Review reading chord symbols
  • Review using chord inversions