Beginning Piano
Online Course by Dr. Kathy Winston
Easy-to-follow Piano Course for Beginners for all Ages
Start with zero knowledge about playing the piano, and end reading music and playing hands together. Dr. Kathy Winston will walk you through a step-by-step system in learning how to play the piano.
All 47 lessons are around 10 minutes in length, letting you work through them in a short time frame. Each unit will focus on a different skill, giving you several pieces to practice within that skill.
We will add on musical concepts as we go, learning how to read music and how to play the pieces in the lessons.
The Curriculum
Beginning Piano Course Sheet Music
Sheet Music for the Beginning Piano Course
Unit 1 - Playing on the Black Keys
1 Posture; Quarter, Half, & Whole notes
2 Playing on the 3 Black Keys
3 Moving to a Higher Set of Two Black Keys
4 Playing on the sets of 2 & sets of 3 black keys; treble clef & bass clef
5 Chimes
6 Time Signatures
7 First Dance & Improvisation
8 Floating; repeat one octave higher
9 Yes I can!
10 Amazing Grace on the Black Keys
Unit 2 - Playing on the White Keys
11 Musical Alphabet & CDE
12 Three Finger Twist
13 Hot Cross Buns and Mary Had a Little Lamb
14 FGAB, Au Clair de la Lune
15 GAB Finger Twist
16 Rain, Rain, Go Away
17 Ode to Joy
18 Old MacDonald
Unit 3 - Learning to Read Notes in the Treble Clef
19 Read all of the notes on the treble clef staff.
20 Treble Clef: Hot Cross Buns and Mary Had a Little Lamb
21 ABCDE on the Treble Clef Staff
22 Starting on D
23 Humming Tune; Middle C Position; Ties
24 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
25 Vivaldi’s Spring
Unit 4 - Learning to Read Notes in the Bass Clef
27 C Position, Bass Clef
28 Thumb on Middle C
29 When the Saints Go Marching In
30 Jingle Bells
31 Lightly Row
Unit 5 - Playing on the Grand Staff
33 Triumph; 8va, open 5ths, fermata
34 Waterfall; 15ma; harmonic 5ths and 3rds
35 Wondering; harmonic 2nds and harmonic 3rds
36 Long, Long, Ago; Dynamics; Slur and Legato
37 Are you Sleeping; Frère Jacques
38 Camptown Races
39 I’ll Fly; Staccato, Crescendo, and Decrescendo
Unit 6 - Hands Together
40 Lightly Row – Tonic & Dominant Harmonization
41 Au Clair de la Lune
42 The Swing – whole and half rests
43 Questioning – Quarter Rests
44 Alouette; Dynamics
45 London Bridge
46 Amazing Grace
47 Graduation
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Dr Kathy Winston
Dr. Kathy Winston, a piano pedagogy specialitist based out of Austin, TX, has taught music at the university level and in her private piano studio. She firmly believes that music instruction enhances all lives.
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