Foundations · 20 lessonsThe Composer's Path · 37 lessons
Lesson 2 of 57 · Hands, Touch, and Slow Scales

Part A

Foundations

Hands, scales, theory, all the modes, goal notes, motivic development, notation. Twenty lessons anchored on Greg's Weekly Piano videos.

5 modules · 20 lessons · about 8 months

Hands, Touch, and Slow Scales illustration

Hands, Touch, and Slow Scales

The physical foundation. Four lessons that never really end: this module stays in the daily warm-up for the whole program.

4 lessons · 8 weeks

Module 1 of 5

Basic Theory illustration

Basic Theory

Pitch, intervals, chords, and the circle of fifths, learned at the keyboard and in the ear before they are learned on paper.

5 lessons · 13 weeks

Module 2 of 5

All the Modes, All the Scales illustration

All the Modes, All the Scales

Every diatonic mode, every minor-family mode, the symmetric scales, and the voicings that carry them. The vocabulary Part B assumes you already have.

3 lessons · 10 weeks

Module 3 of 5

Motives, Goal Notes, and Musical Progression illustration

Motives, Goal Notes, and Musical Progression

Six lessons on the material a piece is made of and on what makes it move forward. This is where Part A stops being technique and starts being composition.

6 lessons · 15 weeks

Module 4 of 5

Notation and Reading illustration

Notation and Reading

Sibelius and sight-reading, so that what you hear can be written down cleanly and handed to players.

2 lessons · 20 weeks

Module 5 of 5