Setting Up Your Bench
The Ideal Hand Shape
Arm Weight and Key Contact
Adapting Violinist Habits
Posture Check-In
The Piano Keyboard
Understanding the Staff
Scales: Major and Minor
Key Signatures
Chords: Triads
Five-Finger Exercises
Scale Exercises
Arpeggio Exercises
Hanons #1 and #2
Chromatic Exercises
Bach: Minuet in G
Mozart: Allegro in F
Beethoven: Ode to Joy
Classical Ornamentation
Dynamics and Articulation
Rhythm Reading Basics
Note Recognition
Simple Key Signatures
Sight-Reading Strategies
Sight-Reading Practice
Transposition Basics
Transposing Chords
Transposing Accompaniments
Transposition Exercises
Why Transpose?