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All black keys:
Turkey in the straw
Irish Washerwoman
Intro to superstition, eb minor


Zoom idea for the Ear Training/Piano Lab:

"You'll need a sharpie and three blank pieces of paper held the long way like landscape."

Page 1) "I'm going to sing a melody, and you're going to draw a little Mario platforms for each note." (Could do a known song like happy birthday, or something a little harder)


Page 2) same thing but a harder passage


Page 3) dynamics exercise, on zoom. "Draw your favorite food as an emoji. The drawing should take up the entire piece of paper." Find a way to hold it so it appears to us as viewers that the food is to scale with you. Singing ah, move the paper closer and further from the lens, and adjust the volume of your voice to match the scale of the food.

Homework) label the intervals in between each Mario platform for one of the passages. Use complete ear trainer arcade mode has a tool to help you.

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Intro to Let it Be - PDF here - Spotify here
(fits with Lean on Me lesson)
See photo of white board


"Imagine" by John Lennon (introduce major seventh, teach right after teaching C major to F major second inversion)
C Major triad below middle c, chromatic a a# b on beat four, than f second inversion triad
Chris: F G C E Major triad
fairly accurate PDF here
fine video here

Intermediate:

Right Hand, simple triad arpeggios:

Someone Like you by Adele, A Major
I iii vi IV for the whole song!
The one that got away by Katy Perry,  E Major
 I iii vi IV
Advanced:
Don't stop believing by Journey, E major
I V vi IV

"the way it is" by Bruce Hornsby, G major, 
ii vi V IV I V IVadd9
Lick: ABG GAE DEG, Lick chords: V bVII IV ( G F C)

Sara Bareilles song that Genevieve learned?
"Every breath you take" by the Police, G Major
PDF here, practice playing just the right hand pattern


Clocks by Coldplay, F minor
Roman numerals F minor: bVII iv iv i (Eb Bbm Bbm Fm)
Starts on top space e flat,  
Link to score on musescore


Outline for four chord song Lesson Plan.
1) Choose a key and play the major scale, hands separate.

2) Play all the diatonic triads in that scale, hands separate.
[2a) Triads in first and second inversion, hands separate.]

3) Improvise with Triads in LH and Melody in RH.
[3a) Pattern in LH, melody in RH]

4) Figure out a specific four chord sequence that you loop in LH.
  [Teacher gives, for example: I III vi IV]


4a) Write it down: as closed position triads, as SATB, as two handed pattern, etc.


5) Once you've got it in a nice flow, jump to this website and see if you recognize any of the common songs.
https://www.hooktheory.com/trends#key=D&scale=major&path=1.3.6.4

So what by pink

Help by the Beatles

Sweet baby James by James Taylor
Heroes we could be by alesso


Price tag by Jessie j

6) Finally, read this little chart and see if you agree about each of the chords' "tendencies". Why or why not?
https://github.com/velipso/music-theory/blob/master/docs/pop-prog.md
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      • Holiday
      • Borrowed Works
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        • Studio Playlists
      • Trumpet Playlists
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      • Herb Alpert
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