Piano Keyboard Core Classes

  • Harmony & Theory
  • Ear Training
  • Rhythm Training
  • Applied Rhythm Training
  • Sight Reading
  • Improvisation
  • Music Technology Lab
  • Songwriting & Arranging
  • Modern Music Listening & Analysis
  • Writing Charts and Lead Sheets
  • Elementary Piano for Songwriting & Composition
  • Jazz Composition & Arranging
  • Traditional Harmony
  • Traditional Counterpoint
  • Pre-production Workshop for Musicians
  • Modes of the major scale
  • Jazz improvisation
  • Dynamic phrasing and musical expression
  • Piano chords and voicings
  • Understanding sheet music and sightreading
  • Classical piano composers and repertoire

Keyboard Voicing

Learn the concepts of chord-scale harmony and apply them to the construction of voicing's and chord progressions. Students explore the techniques of “tension substitution” and use it to create voicing's while composing and performing their own progressions.
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Keyboard Improvisation

Introduces blues tonality, 7th chord arpeggios, and improvising over all major and minor tonalities utilizing a key center approach and variations. Students improvise over simple blues and jazz progressions.

B.g. Music Academy Keyboard education

Takes an innovative approach to an instrument that is both deeply traditional and constantly evolving. The unique curriculum combines traditional keyboard performance with cutting-edge keyboard-based technology. As a performer, you develop your keyboard skills and explore a range of contemporary styles including funk, R&B, blues, jazz, country, rock, fusion, Afro-Cuban and Brazilian.

Jazz Piano Humber College and Berklee program available.

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Your choices of

Pop/Rock Piano (popular songs ) intermediate level to advanced

Africa • Bennie and the Jets • Breathe (2 AM) • Don't Stop Believin' • Gravity • The Long and Winding Road • Mandolin Rain • New York State of Mind • Rosanna • Still Crazy After All These Years • more.

Classical Piano (Royal Conservatory of Music Program)

Graded repertoire and studies/etudes albums to complement and provide supporting materials for the curriculum and the Certificate Programs of the Royal Conservatory of Music

B.g. Music Academy Tips (how to help your child succeed at the Piano)

The decision to study piano, like the choice of diet or bedtime, should not be left up to a young child. The child who asked of he "wants" to study piano may well say no, for he has little information on which to base the decision. Do not suggest that you are merely "trying" piano or that lesson might not work out. Expect good progress and it's likely to result! Dragan Petrovic / B.G. Music Academy music director

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