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**Please note that attendance policy standards and other grades will factor into the calculation of

your final grade. You are required to score a C or higher in Class Piano IV in order to complete it

successfully. Poor attendance or other below satisfactory grades on other assignments may

render your final grade to a C- or lower, and you will be required to retake Class Piano IV.**

Keyboard Skills Requirements

I. Scales

All major and harmonic minor scales, hands together, two octaves.

-Students will be assessed on finger and note accuracy

(mm between 138-160 per note)

II. Chord Progressions

Play the I-vi-IV-ii

-I

–V

-I chord progression on p. 83 (Alfred’s Group Piano, Book II).

Transpose this progression to all 12 Major keys

-Students will be assessed on the fluidity of the progression as they transpose it from key to key.

-Chord=half note

III. Harmonization and Transposition

1. Two weeks prior to the midterm, students will receive an eight-bar melody with directions

regarding the required chords to harmonize with the left hand and the specific keys to which they

must transpose the example. NOTE: if the student does not pass this portion during the normal

course of the semester, they will be given another eight-bar example two weeks before they are

required to retake it for the final exam.

2. Harmonize a melody at sight with appropriate left hand chords.

-For both of these sections, the student will be assessed on the appropriateness of chord choices,

fluidity of execution, and in the latter case, the ability to read and harmonize at sight.

IV. Seventh Chords

On any given note, the student will be asked to perform any of the five different seventh chord

types listed below. Students will build each of these chords in two ways. First, they will spell out

the individual five notes of the chord, hands together, and then play it as a block chord (hands

together). The five seventh chord types are as follows:

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