UNITS
  • Technique
  • Chord Materials
  • Scale skills: first position and movable scales
  • First position notation: lh and rh fingerings; application to chordal and arpeggio pieces
  • Upper position playing
  • Jazz-pop studies
  • Music theory, related to playing skills
  OTHER MATERIALS
  • Music Terms and Symbols
  • Worksheets
  • 13 ensemble scores providing application of skills learned

IN A NUTSHELL
  • 124 pages of competency-based curriculum
  • Coordinated skills, theory and performance