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KeyNotes | Group Piano Lessons

Welcome

Keynotes group piano program provides piano lessons that nurture the whole musician through our innovative, fun, and inspiring curriculum at our Music School based in Essendon.

"What a fantastic new concept! My child has so much more fun than I did learning the piano!" 


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Keynotes Mission

We deliver piano lessons that nurture a love of music and piano learning

Our program is designed to ensure that all learners are supported and challenged as individuals in a group setting

We believe in learning creatively and through creativity. Our curriculum includes composition, listening and storytelling though playing

Our students thrive in the social setting that group piano offers

Classes

Little Keynotes | Age 4 - 5

Little Keynotes is a group piano program for students aged 4 - 5. They will have some prior knowledge of the letters of the alphabet (i.e. be able to sing the alphabet song and recognize some letters) and numbers 1 - 5.

Developmentally they will be used to situations such as story time or carpet time; any situation where they have to sit and listen to a teacher / caregiver.

Little KeyNotes children may start out trying to improvise and may not understand that the letters on the page are to be played on the keys that correlate to their names! However, after only a couple of piano lessons, they should be able to follow the music.

Little KeyNotes classes are offered at our Essendon Music School Location, we teach families from neighboring suburbs - Moonee ponds, Niddrie,  Strathmore, Oak Park, Glenroy,  Pascoe Vale and surrounds.

Principal Keynotes | Age 6+

Principal Keynotes is a group piano lesson program offering piano lessons for students aged 6+ and there are multiple levels which students move through. Each level has different learning objectives and each child works at their own pace. Students move through their levels by consistently meeting the objectives for their current level.  


 Little KeyNotes classes are offered at our Essendon Music School Location, we teach families from neighboring suburbs - Moonee ponds, Niddrie,  Strathmore, Oak Park, Glenroy,  Pascoe Vale and surrounds. 


Points of learning running through all levels

In addition to the learning aims for each level, there are more generic points of learning that run through all levels. They have been categorised as follows:

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Pitch

  • Scales and scalic fingering
  • Moving by step and by leap
  • Melodic sequences
  • Tonic notes
  • Major/minor tonality
  • Octaves
  • Middle C

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Piano technique

  • Hand posture
  • Finger exercises
  • RH/LH playing - initially in octaves, then adding chords, and adding a written left hand with occasional left-hand melodies

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Aural skills

  • Listening for elements: pitch, dynamics, timbre and instruments, tempo, rhythm, structure, texture
  • Listening for perfect and imperfect cadences
  • Singing back short melodies
  • Clapping the pulse of a piece of music
  • Basic pitch and rhythm dictation
  • Clapping/playing back short rhythms/melodies


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