GSM 212

1st and 2nd week Lesson outline:
A. Revisional: What Music is
1. Definition of Music (Revision)
2. The song sound of Music with Tonic sol-fa.
3. Review of Piano keys Nomenclature (white/natural keys, black:sharp/flat keys and their respective symbols.)
4. Dummy keyboards construction [Take Home Assignment: Follow specified diameters Draw showing the piano keys on a cardboard paper].
5. Review of RHF and LHF numbering and correspondence.

B. GSM 212 Project Review:
1. Project Deadline given.
2. Pupils grouping wrt Project submission
*project options:
1. Present a representative from any one of the following Family of Musical Instruments: percussion, woodwind.
2. Learn to play the following melodies with both hands: (refer to melodious exercises nos. 6-10 from level 1 playlist.)

C. Introducing the Music Club Project 2019001B [refer to Music Club Project].

3rd week Lesson outlines:
A. Revisional: The Music stave [refer to GSM 110 text]: what it is? Numbering pattern from bottom to top, pupils to number the stave at the reverse side of the book cover [refer to The Musicians Note Book].

B. Revisional: Learning to draw the Treble and Bass clef: placement of the clefs on the stave.

C. Revisional materials: names of the lines and spaces of the Treble stave.

D. Revisional materials: names of the lines and spaces of the Bass stave.

E. Introducing the Pianoforte Fingering Book 1 terminologies. [Book 1 comprises of Techniques 1-3].
**exercises to be played first on pupils dummy keyboards in the classroom.**

F. Introducing Pianoforte Fingering Book 1 Chapter 2 Exercises.

G. Group 1 practice from Pianoforte Fingering Book 1 Chapter 2 (FPE 1-8).

H. Assignment: Melodious Exercises Nos. 6 on Cmaj from the RH Piano Melodies Book 1.

4th week Lesson outlines:
A. Introducing the Musical Note Values 1: Semibreve, Minims and Crotchets.

B. Learning to draw a Semibreve, a Minim, & a Crotchet.

C. Placing the respective note values on the Stave and reading them: principles of their respective placements on the stave: below the third line, on the third line and above the third line.

D. Group 2 practice from Pianoforte Fingering Book 1 Chapter 2 (FPE 1-8).

E. Introducing the Exercises for Chapter 3 (Pianoforte Fingering Book 1)

F. Assignment: Melodious Exercises Nos. 7 on Cmaj from the RH Piano Melodies Book 1.

5th week Lesson outlines:
A. Revisional materials: spelling from the Treble stave.

B. Revisional materials: spelling from the Bass stave.

C. Group 3 practice from Pianoforte Fingering Book 1 Chapter 2 (FPE 1-8)

D. Revisional: Pianoforte Fingering Book 1 Chapter 3 exercises.

E. Assignment: Melodious Exercises Nos. 8 on Cmaj from the RH Piano Melodies Book 1.

6th week: TEST OF APPLIED MUSIC.

7th week Lesson outlines:
A.  Revisional materials: names of the Recorder parts and numbering of holes of the Recorder.

B. Revisional materials: Other members of the woodwind family of Musical Instruments (refer to MKG 310 text).

C. Group 4 practice from Pianoforte Fingering Book 1 Chapter 2 (FPE 1-8).

D. Assignment: Melodious Exercises Nos. 9 on Cmaj from the RH Piano Melodies Book 1.

E. The Cmajor scale:
1. The voicing of the major scale.
2. The Cmajor scale spelling
3. The Cmajor scale pianoforte fingering.

8th Week Lesson outlines:
A. Introducing the percussion family of instruments.

B. Practice playing Semibreve and Minims  on the drums
F. Group 5 practice from Pianoforte Fingering Book 1 Chapter 2 (FPE 1-8)

C. Assignment: Melodious Exercises Nos. 10 on Cmaj from the RH Piano Melodies Book 1.
*pupils are to come along with their keyboards on the 9th week for Rehearsals.

D. The Gmajor scale:
1. The spelling of the Gmajor scale.
2. The pianoforte fingering for the Gmajor scale.

9th week Lesson outlines:
A. Pianoforte Melodious Exercises Rehearsals and Projects submission.

10th week: RECITALS. (by RH exams, recitals, jury and repertoire Dept.)

11th week: TEST
Section A: Test of key Nomenclature 1. [Natural key nomenclature]
Section B: Test of Pianoforte Fingering 1 [ID and correspondence]
Section C: Music Stave Spelling Bee 2
Section D: Test of Family of Musical Instruments.