Foundation Course

🇮🇳 Rs. 20000 / 🌎 420$

The Beginner Piano/ Keyboard course is aimed at complete beginners, music industry pros, producers, songwriters, DJ’s, electronic musicians and Classical piano students. The main aim here is to generate a fair level of comfort on your instrument after 16 weeks at Nathaniel. If you have been playing for a while, this course will still help you to build up core concepts, start composing and play with a band.

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By the end of this course, you’ll be able to

Understand and recognize notes on the keyboard
Play different rhythm patterns, melodies, and chords.
Gain independence between two hands while playing
Compose songs
Train your ears and understand the foundational concepts of music.
Gain knowledge about various techniques of playing the piano like arpeggios, broken chords, chord inversions and dynamics.

Curriculum

Introduction

We prepare ourselves to learn one of the most diverse instruments in history by figuring out what it can and cannot do, along with all the tools essential to being a solid piano/ keyboard player. We’ll start by understanding and recognising the notes in music and on the Piano.

Role of the Keyboard

Demonstrating Melody, Harmony and Rhythm
Exploring the range
Evolution with Technology
Use of the keyboard in Multiple Genres
Song composition

Understanding the skills required to play

Independence (Finger and Hand)
Finger Strength
Mind to finger transfer
The approach to making music on the piano
Physics and Mathematics basics related to sound and music
Ear Training
Music Theory and Notation

Exercises

Note Recognition Exercises
Playing the piano and singing
Posture and 5 Finger Exercises for Left and Right Hand to build up agility, flexibility, strength, speed and control
5th Chord Exercises
Adding Grooves to the 5th Chord
Adding Chords in the Left Hand
Spider Exercises
Czerny and Hanon classical exercises
Crossing over exercises

Technique

Posture rules
Composing and Transcribing melodies on different signatures
Staccato and Laccato
Playing scales
Chord playing techniques using full, broken chords and arpeggios
Practicing chord inversions
Basic styles and progressions on the piano: Rock n Roll, Blues, Country, Reggae, Waltz and Ballads
Developing independence of hands
Working with accents and syncopated phrases
Playing melodic and rhythmic patterns via notation and grid-based approach
Playing with Dynamics