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Section One a. Time signatures b. Rhythmic drills (****) c. Keyboard drills - look-up! (for establishing a sense of the keyboard) -- two black keys -- three black keys -- the note C -- the note F -- the other white keys -- stepping up and down from a given note -- skipping up and down from a given note -- a "big skip" -- various notes -- pairs of notes d. The interval of a second -- writing and playing seconds or steps -- excersises with seconds or steps -- the five-finger position -- exercises in seconds or steps in five-finger position, in rhythm Section Two a. Terms to know b. The major scale -- the circle of fifths -- key signatures c. Transposition d. Two-part exercises -- some simple rules for transposition e. Leger lines f. Two-part music Section Three a. Rhythmic drills -- upbeat b. Keyboard drills - look up! -- scales -- skipping in the scales -- scales in four octaves c. The interval of a third -- writing and playing thirds or skips -- exercises with thirds or skips -- exercises with thirds or skips in rhythm -- two-part exercises: thirds in the five-finger position d. Keyboard harmony -- chords -- chords in keys -- look-up drill (triads in cross-hand style) -- chord positions -- look-up drill (the three positions of the major and minor triads) -- drill (instant recognition of chords) Section Four a. Rhythmic drills (***) b. Keyboard drills c. Reviews of seconds and thirds -- writing seconds and thirds -- exercises with seconds and thirds - steps and skips - in rhythm -- two-part exercises in seconds and thirds in five-finger position d. Drills - play and write -- seventh chords in root position -- inversions of seventh chords -- recognition of seventh chords e. Harmonic progressions -- the I, IV and V chords -- drill (common chord progression no.1) f. Music with chordal accompaniment Section Five a. Rhythmic drills (***) b. Keyboard drills - Look-up drill (the Waltz or Bounce-Bass accompaniment c. The Interval of a fifth -- writing and playing fifths -- exercises with fifths - big skips -- exercises with fifths in rhythm d. Reviews of thirds and fifths -- exercises with thirds and fifths - skips and big skips -- exercises with thirds and fifths in rhythm (hands separately) e. Two-part exercises in seconds, thirds and fifths f. Keyboard harmony -- look-up drill (common chord progression no.2) -- chordal accompaniments Section Six a. Rhythmic drills (***) b. Keyboard drills - look-up! c. The Interval of a forth -- writing and playing forths d. Two-part exercises with forths in five-finger position Section Seven a. The minor scale -- the circle of fiths for the minor keys -- fingering of the minor scales -- look-up drill (playing minor scales) b. exercises in the five-finger position in minor keys c. transpositionto major and minor keys -- jingle bells -- drink to me only with thine eyes -- du, du, liegst mir im herzen -- French folk song -- shoo fly, don't bother me -- when Johnny comes marching home -- John Peel Section Eight a. Rhythmic drills (***) b. Keyboard drills -- look-up drill () -- shifting the hand by a change of fingers -- pivoting and interval reading c. The Interval of a sixth -- writing and playing sixths -- exercises with intervals of seconds, thirds, fourths, fifths and sixths -- exercises in feeling for sixths -- exercises in interval reading in rhythm d. The Interval of the octave -- The Interval of the octave -- exercises in feeling for octaves e. The Interval of a seventh -- writing and playing sevenths -- exercises in feeling for sevenths f. Fingering beyond the five-finger position -- change of fingers on the same note -- change of fingers on a different note by shifting the hand -- cross over the thumb -- thumb under -- extension beyond the five-finger position g. exercises in finger changes h. pieces written in the I, IV, and V chords with finger changes -- Juanita -- Polly Wolly Doodle -- Loch Lomond -- Red River Valley -- Comin' thro' the Rye I. Pieces in two voices extending beyond the five-finger position -- Prelude (Havill) -- Dance (Havill) -- Dance (Havill) -- Aria (Bach) -- Unbezeichnetes Stuck (Bach) -- Menuet Fait par M. Bohm (Bach) -- German Dance no. 3 (Beethoven)