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2010 Summer Piano Courses

Note: Regular Private and Group Lessons continue during the summer with a break from July 6, 2010 to July 24, 2010.

Each Tuesday and Thursday of June, LM Music Studio will offer group courses to enrich and supplement your child music education.

Each week will be a different course. Please send an e-mail to piano@lmmusicstudio.com to sign up for any courses that you are interested in. Suggestions for time and day are welcome.

Select on of the Summer Piano Courses below or scroll down for additional information:

  1. Meet the composers
  2. Reading notes on the staff
  3. Sight singing and rhythm
  4. Let’s play piano together (Duet course)
  5. Jazz it up

1.0    Meet the composers:

Duration: 1week (Tuesday and Thursday)
 
Price: $100
 
Minimum: 2 students   maximum: 6 students
 
Date: TBD
 
Part I-   Tuesday June 8 (Biography and sheet music)
Part II - Thursday June 10 (quiz and performance)
 
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm (tentative)
Level required: any level
 
Description:
Review of the life and music works of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Bach.

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2.0  Reading notes on the staff

Duration: 1 week (Tuesday and Thursday)
 
Price: $100
 
Minimum: 2 students   maximum: 6 students
 
Date:
 
Part I-   Tuesday June 15 (working on notes on Treble clef and quiz)
Part II - Thursday June 17 (working on notes on Bass clef and quiz)
 
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm (tentative)
 
Level required: any level
 
Description:
This course is for students that does not know how to read notes on the staff, students that are getting confused with notes on the staff, and for students that want to improve their sight-reading. The teacher will provide tips and repetitive exercises to master reading on both staves.

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3.0  Sight Singing and Rhythm:


Duration: 1 week (Tuesday and Thursday)
 
Price: $100
 
Minimum: 2 students   maximum: 6 students
 
Date: TBD
 
Part I-   Tuesday June 22 (singing scales )
Part II - Thursday June 24 (reading melodies and quiz)
 
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
 
Level required: any level
 
Description:
Very fun course for any age but especially for piano students that like to sing.  “Sight-singing” simply means singing a piece of written music - at first sight - without the
aid of any other instrument. It’s a special skill that both singers and instrumentalists can
develop by training with one of several sight-singing techniques.
 
C major scale: C D E F G A B C
tonic solfa syllables: doh ray me fah soh lah te doh

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4.0  Let’s play piano together (Duet course)


Duration: 1 week (Tuesday and Thursday)
 
Price: $100
 
Minimum: 2 students   maximum: 6 students
 
Date: TBD
 
Part I-   Tuesday (rhythm basics review, working on couple piano pieces)
Part II - Thursday (performance and quiz)
 
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
 
Level required: minimum end of level 1
 
Description:
The piano duet, also known as "piano four hands" is a type of chamber music in which two pianists play on the same keyboard. Piano teachers often use pieces for piano duets to address technical issues such as sight reading and rhythm. Aside from helping a student improve his/her playing, piano duets are fun to play and wonderful to listen to.
 
Music courses: "Meet the composers","Reading notes on the staff","Sight Singing and rhythm" and Let's play piano together (Duet piano course)...

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5.0  Jazz it up

This course is designed to ease you into playing jazz and create a solid foundation.  It assumes you have already begun your keyboard training, are familiar with reading music and have experience playing major and minor scales.
What this course can do is teach you the basics. Playing jazz is fun, so enjoy!
 
Duration: 3 weeks (Tuesday and Thursday)
 
Price: $210
 
Minimum: 2 students   maximum: 6 students
 
Date: TBD
 
Part I-   Tuesday June 15, Thursday June 17 and Tuesday June 22 (feel, scales soloing and blues progression)
Part II - Thursday 24 and Tuesday June 29 (performance and quiz)
 
Time: 2:30 to 3:30 pm
 
Level required: minimum end of level 2A (ask the music teacher)

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LM Music Studio offers piano lessons to the surrounding Keller, Fort Worth, Haslet, Roanoke, and Trophy Club communities for students and adult students ranging from beginners to advanced.

LM Music Studio, 9605 Lacey Lane, Keller, TX 76248  

www.lmmusicstudio.com