Your first months at the piano: the keyboard map, steady pulse, reading by landmarks and intervals, and short pieces from the first week, two of them duets where the app plays the other part.
Foundation closes with a Level check. It asks for:
Find middle C on the keyboard map, then on the grand staff, where it sits on its own short ledger line between the two staves. Play Home Light with the thumb on middle C and keep a steady four-beat count.
Play only the pupil's left-hand repeated-G4 line in bars 1–16 of Beyer's Op. 101 No. 10 while the app plays the other part. Count steadily through quarter, half and whole notes and silence, keep going with the other part even after a slip, then finish with one complete pulse-part take—not a performance of the two-hand pupil score. Little Clock is the solo alternative.
Play Köhler’s First Study, Op. 190 No. 1, in whole notes. Count four beats through each whole note and through the rest in the last bar, and feel where each bar begins.
Study Türk’s Aller Anfang ist schwer in C. Find middle C in the left hand and the C and G an octave higher in the right, then follow the melody and bass across the grand staff. Across the Bridge, the alternative, reads treble G, bass F and middle C.
Study Gurlitt Op. 117 No. 3 in C. Count three quarter-note beats and read its lines, which move by step. Hold the dotted-half bass for all three beats and keep it sounding across a tie; read the ties-and-dots card before playing. Three Steps, the original alternative, adds skips to the steps in the same C position and three-beat bar.
Study Gurlitt Op. 117 No. 4 in C. It starts forte; follow its crescendo (bars 3–4) and diminuendo (bars 6–8) over half notes, and play the repeated bars again at the repeat sign, taking the first and then the second ending. Near and Far, the alternative, plays a soft phrase and its loud echo; then echo a phrase loudly and softly at the keyboard.
Play Raindrops and Ribbons, an original piece in the C five-finger position. Make its staccato notes short and light and its slurred notes smooth, and give the three accented notes (bars 1, 3 and 6) a little more weight without striking harder. Köhler’s Op. 190 No. 4, the alternative, prints no articulation: play it once detached and once connected. Then compare detached and connected versions of the same phrase at the keyboard.
Study Köhler Op. 190 No. 2 in the C five-finger position, reading its two treble-clef staves in whole and half notes. Try the damper pedal with a held note: press it with the note and lift it with the next. In A Second Voice, an original warm-up written for the Method, hold one line while the other begins its imitation. For Beyer’s alternative, play the pupil part with the app’s teacher.
Play the pupil part of Beyer’s Der Kuckuck, Op. 101 No. 11, while the app plays the teacher. Find the five notes in G, G–A–B–C–D, and count three quarter-note beats in each printed bar. Compare the same five-note pattern in C and G: in G it still needs only white keys. The sharps-and-flats card shows the black keys’ names; F sharp, the next note of the G scale, comes with the key of G at Level 1.
Study Gurlitt Op. 117 No. 1 in C. Hear its changing bass and slurred melody, then play tonic and dominant triads in the keyboard task. In Passing the Tune, an original warm-up, follow the melody as it changes hands while the other hand sustains.
Study A Second Voice, an original two-line miniature: the right hand plays a tune, then the left hand enters in bar 3 with the same tune while the right hand holds longer notes. Sing each line and play it alone. Count the left hand’s two silent bars before it enters, and hold each long note for its full value while the other line moves. Then join the hands and listen for the tune passing from one to the other.
Study Three Steps, an original in 3/4. Tap three steady quarter-note beats, then play the melody alone and find its steps and skips. The left hand holds a dotted half note for the whole bar, then rests for a bar: count all three beats of each. Join the hands, and keep the first beat of each bar clear without striking harder.
Study Long Shadows, an original single-line miniature. Count four beats through each whole note, two through each half note and one through each quarter. Bars 4 and 6 end with a half-note rest: count it in silence and come in again exactly on the next bar. Let the last phrase end quietly.
13 Musicianship units, one beside each lesson and in the same order. A unit is done when its theory questions are answered right and its ear, rhythm and keyboard tasks have passed; the reading test and unseen pieces are Reading.
Hear middle C and a note above it, read quarter and half notes, and find middle C on the keyboard.
Echo three notes from middle C, read quarters, halves and whole notes, and keep a steady pulse at the keyboard.
Tap back quarters, halves and whole notes, count the rests in a written rhythm, and hold a whole note to its end.
Hear whether the second note goes up from C or down from G, read a rhythm where the hands take turns, and find the landmark notes.
Tap back a rhythm in three beats, read three beats in a bar, and play steps and skips.
Echo four notes that step and skip, read rhythms in four or three beats, and play a phrase loudly and softly.
Tap back long and short notes, read rests in four and in three, and play a phrase detached and connected.
Echo a five-note melody that comes home to C, read four bars, and play the C position and a tune by ear.
Hear seconds and thirds in the C and G positions, read four bars in three, and play the G position.
Tell the home chord from the away chord, read a right-hand rhythm over long left-hand notes, and play I–V–I.
Tap back a rhythm with rests, come in after a rest in a written rhythm, and hold a note before another line enters.
Echo a three-beat phrase that ends on its tonic, read tied notes, and play steps and skips.
Tap back long notes and rests, read long notes and silences, and hold a whole note to its end.
Every strand level by level: pieces, technique, reading and musicianship; and the glossary.
In Musalea each lesson runs step by step, and after every run the app tells you what to fix: the bar, the hand and how to practise it.
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