Lessons on Alfred's Basic Piano Course Lesson Levels 1A Through 6
7 Seasons
Helps students recall and reinforce what they've learned in private lessons and takes them step by step through each piece from Lesson Levels 1A through 6 covering all concepts in the method. Lessons range from position playing and basic note recognition to advanced reading with intervals, chords, and patterns. Students are guided through beginning interpretive concepts to advanced musical artistry.
Students using these videos will be better prepared for their lessons and will complete the course faster.
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Lessons on the Basic Course Lesson Level 4
Episode 1
A preview of the series where Mike teaches lessons out of the Basic Course Lesson Level 4. Concepts include chord inversions, two-part writing in one hand, seventh chords, new rhythmic values such as eighth note triplets and sixteenth notes, and scales and primary triads in brand new keys.
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13:44Episode 2Lesson on "Tarantella"
Episode 2
Helps students review and reinforce concepts learned from Lesson Level 3.
0:33 Overview
0:49 Lesson
10:30 Guided Demonstration
12:12 DemonstrationA copy of the Basic Course Lesson Level 4 is required:
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13:45Episode 3Lesson on "Haunted House"
Episode 3
Helps students learn the value of the eighth note triplet.
0:33 Overview
0:50 Lesson
9:37 Guided Demonstration
11:51 DemonstrationA copy of the Basic Course Lesson Level 4 is required:
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11:53Episode 4Lesson on "The Hokey-Pokey"
Episode 4
Helps students learn first inversion triads.
0:33 Overview
0:56 Lesson
8:49 Guided Demonstration
10:18 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCAdult All-in-One Course Level 2:
http://amzn.to/2nTcSuvBasic Ad...
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24:10Episode 5Lesson on "Prelude in A Minor"
Episode 5
Helps student learn arpeggiated chords and reinforces first inversion triads.
0:33 Overview
0:50 Lesson
13:15 Guided Demonstration
19:19 DemonstrationA copy of the Basic Course Lesson Level 4 is required:
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12:32Episode 6Lesson on "Space Shuttle Blues"
Episode 6
Helps students learn second inversion triads.
0:33 Overview
0:56 Lesson
8:16 Guided Demonstration
10:23 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCAdult All-in-One Course Level 2:
http://amzn.to/2nTcSuvBasic A...
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16:08Episode 7Lesson on "Olympic Procession"
Episode 7
Helps students reinforce second inversion triads.
0:33 Overview
0:54 Lesson
11:03 Guided Demonstration
13:47 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCAdult All-in-One Course Level 2:
http://amzn.to/2nTcSuv -
11:42Episode 8Lesson on "Farewell to Thee (Aloha Oe)"
Episode 8
Helps students review triads in root, first, and second inversions as well as reinforcing arpeggiated chords.
0:33 Overview
0:57 Lesson
7:11 Guided Demonstration
9:33 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCAdul...
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11:28Episode 9Lesson on "Black Forest Polka"
Episode 9
Helps students reinforce triads in all positions played both blocked and broken.
0:33 Overview
0:53 Lesson
7:48 Guided Demonstration
9:38 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCAdult All-in-One Course Level 2:
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12:28Episode 10Lesson on "Calypso Holiday!"
Episode 10
Helps students learn about syncopated rhythms.
0:33 Overview
0:50 Lesson
9:03 Guided Demonstration
10:49 DemonstrationA copy of the Basic Course Lesson Level 4 is required:
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13:30Episode 11Lesson on "Pomp and Circumstance"
Episode 11
Helps students learn two-part writing in one hand.
0:33 Overview
0:56 Lesson
9:35 Guided Demonstration
11:36 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCAdult All-in-One Course Level 2:
http://amzn.to/2nTcSuvBa...
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13:31Episode 12Lesson on "Swinging Sevenths"
Episode 12
Helps students learn about seventh chords.
0:33 Overview
0:56 Lesson
8:19 Guided Demonstration
10:53 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCAdult All-in-One Course Level 2:
http://amzn.to/2nTcSuvBasic Adul...
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15:42Episode 13Lesson on "America, the Beautiful"
Episode 13
Helps students learn and apply seventh chord inversions.
0:33 Overview
0:55 Lesson
11:26 Guided Demonstration
13.28 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCBasic Adult Piano Course Lesson Level Two:
http://amzn... -
11:54Episode 14Lesson on "The House of the Rising Sun"
Episode 14
Helps students learn and play in the key of E minor.
0:33 Overview
0:49 Lesson
6:20 Guided Demonstration
7:58 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCAdult All-in-One Course Level 2:
http://amzn.to/2nTcSuvB...
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13:54Episode 15Lesson on "Waves of the Danube"
Episode 15
Helps students learn about the primary chords of E minor and their inversions.
0:33 Overview
0:51 Lesson
8:28 Guided Demonstration
11:27 DemonstrationA copy of the Basic Course Lesson Level 4 is required:
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09:36Episode 16Lesson on "Gypsy Dance"
Episode 16
Helps students learn about the sixteenth note.
0:33 Overview
0:50 Lesson
6:20 Guided Demonstration
7:58 DemonstrationA copy of the Basic Course Lesson Level 4 is required:
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13:44Episode 17Lesson on "Musette"
Episode 17
Helps students reinforce sixteenth notes and introduces some proper performance practices of Baroque keyboard music.
0:33 Overview
0:55 Lesson
9:16 Guided Demonstration
11:33 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
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17:04Episode 18Lesson on "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Episode 18
Helps students learn the dotted eighth note.
0:33 Overview
0:58 Lesson
12:35 Guided Demonstration
14:52 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCAdult All-in-One Course Level 2:
http://amzn.to/2nTcSuvBasic A...
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12:31Episode 19Lesson on "The Magic Piper"
Episode 19
Helps students learn to play in the key of B-flat major.
0:33 Overview
0:53 Lesson
8:53 Guided Demonstration
10:36 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCAdult All-in-One Course Level 2:
http://amzn.to/2nTcSuv -
Lesson on "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" (Level 4/Adult All-in-One 2)
Episode 20
Helps students learn the primary chords in the key of B-flat major.
0:33 Overview
0:54 Lesson
13:47 Guided Demonstration
16:07 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCAdult All-in-One Course Level 2:
http://amz... -
12:18Episode 21Lesson on "Spinning Wheel"
Episode 21
Helps students learn to play in the key of G minor.
0:33 Overview
0:49 Lesson
8:27 Guided Demonstration
10:21 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QC -
11:19Episode 22Lesson on "Waltz in G Minor"
Episode 22
Helps students learn the primary triads in the key of G minor.
0:33 Overview
0:54 Lesson
8:08 Guided Demonstration
9:40 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QCAdult All-in-One Course Level 2:
http://amzn.to/2n... -
12:29Episode 23Lesson on "Blow, Winds, Blow!"
Episode 23
Helps students reinforce playing in the key of G minor.
0:33 Overview
0:50 Lesson
8:03 Guided Demonstration
10:21 DemonstrationA copy of the Basic Course Lesson Level 4 is required:
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14:40Episode 24Lesson on "Comedians' Dance"
Episode 24
Helps students learn to play fast repeated notes with proper technique.
0:33 Overview
0:50 Lesson
10:43 Guided Demonstration
12:56 DemonstrationA copy of one of these methods is required:
Basic Course Lesson Level 4:
http://amzn.to/2snj0QC
