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Piano Lessons For Adults

 

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Need help determining your piano skill level?

Below you will find a guide to help you assess your piano proficiency level. The links accompanying each description will take you to the related music scores and recordings.

Early Beginner

- May not know any note names or be able to find them on the keyboard

- Can read neither treble nor bass clef

- May be able to play by ear

Repertoire: none

Beginner

- Knows the notes and can find them on the keyboard

- May be able to read treble or bass clef, familiar with relative note values and some dynamic and tempo notations

- May know some major or minor scales and arpeggios

Repertoire: piano method books

Early Intermediate

- Can read treble and bass clefs together

- Understands key and time signatures and is familiar with basic dynamic and tempo notations

- Knows major scales and arpeggios at least up to A and E flat, may know related minor scales and can play    at least two octaves (hands together or separate) at a moderate tempo

Repertoire Examples: 

Minuet in G major, BWV 115 from Notebooks for Anna Magdalena by J.S. Bach

 Sonatina No. 1 in C major from 6 Sonatinas Op. 36  by Muzio Clementi

Melody from Album for the Young, Op. 68 by Robert Schumann

Toccatina from Children's Pieces, Op. 27 by Dimitri Kabalevsky

 

Intermediate

Can read treble and bass scores with confidence

- Is well familiarized with musical notation

- Knows all or most major and harmonic and melodic minor scales and arpeggios, can play four octaves hands together in parallel   motion at a brisk tempo

Repertoire Examples:

Two-part Invention in A minor, BWV 784 from Inventions and Sinfonias by J.S. Bach

Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K.545  by W. A. Mozart

Prelude No. 6 in B minor, Op. 28 No 6 from 24 Preludes by Frederic Chopin

 

High Intermediate

- Can sight-read piano  scores  fluently

- Familiar with most music terminology and notations

- Can play four octaves of any major or minor scales in parallel or contrary motion

- Familiar with some music theory (major, minor and diminished triads and 7th chords and their  inversions, some harmonic progressions)

Repertoire Examples:

Allemande from French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816 by J.S. Bach

 

Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op. 2 from 32 Sonatas for Piano by L.V. Beethoven

Arabesque No. 1, L.66 from Deux Arabesques by Claude Debussy

 

Advanced

- All major and minor scales, in parallel motion at the intevals of a 3rd and a 6th

- Extensive knowledge of music theory, music history and literature, and ear training

- Experience in accompanying other instrumentalists or vocalists and performing in chamber music ensembles

Repertoire Examples:

Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major, BWV 858 from The Well-Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach

Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 (The Waldstein) by L.V. Beethoven

Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op.31 by Frederic Chopin

Intermezzo in B flat minor No. 2, Op. 117 by J. Brahms