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Berklee Keyboard Method
Course Authors: Paul Schmeling
Master the basics of Keyboard technique and chord voicings, and gain an understanding of more advanced concepts including blues progressions and playing three part chords in this 12-week course. Through exercises that explore the interpretation of lead sheets and chord symbols, the Berklee Keyboard Method will help you to improve your performance, harmonic vocabulary, and composition/arranging skills. By the end of the course you will be able to improvise over a lead sheet while comping chords with their appropriate voicings.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Understand how to read treble clef, bass clef and play simple melodies on the grand staff
- Understand accidentals and play the black keys on the keyboard
- Increase your ability to read and play different notes simultaneously
- Understand and play melodies with major and minor triads in right hand
- Understand voice leading triads
- Understand a lead sheet and play chords and bass with left hand
- Add three-part chords to your playing
- Understand altered 9ths, 13ths and Blues progressions
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Course Info 
| - | For-credit tuition: $1,195 |
| - | Non-credit tuition: $995 |
| - | Credits: 3 |
| - | Duration: 12 weeks |
| - | Catalog #: BMP-100 |
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Course Faculty
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Paul Schmeling Master pianist, interpreter, improviser and arranger, recently retired as chair of Berklee's piano department. |
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Dave Limina Assistant Professor in the Piano Department at Berklee. |
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James Ramsay Faculty in the Piano department at Berklee College of Music. |
