GSM 221

1st week Lesson outline:
A. Introducing the Music stave:
1. Definition of Music Stave.
2. Numbering of stave lines and spaces.
3. Kinds of stave 1: I.Treble stave II. Bass stave III. Grand stave.
4. The Treble clef and Bass clef (learning to draw the clefs and placing them on the stave).
5. Names of lines and spaces of Treble and Bass stave: names of musical keys.
6. Illustrations of the stave using the right and left hand sides of the keyboard.

B. GSM 221 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. 11-15 from level 1 playlist.)

C. Introducing the Music Club Project 2019001A [refer to Music Club Project].
*pupils to present (come along with) a Descant Recorder in week 2.

2nd week Lesson outlines:
A. The Music Stave 2: the Descant Recorder, Pianoforte Natural keys and their stave correspondence.
1. The Treble Stave as the corresponding stave for the Descant Recorder.
2. The keys of the Descant Recorder and their location on the stave part 1: Low C, Low C# or Db, Low D.
3. Fingering exercises for the given keys.

B. The Natural keys of the Piano and their correspondence to the Grand Stave.
1. The Grand Stave.
2. Names of piano natural keys (Revisional) starting from C2 to C7.
3. Ledger Lines and Middle C.
4. Correspondence of Piano Natural keys with the Grand Stave.

3rd week Lesson
Revisional:
A. 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.**

B. Introducing Pianoforte Fingering Book 1 Chapter 2 Exercises.

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

D. Assignment: Melodious Exercises Nos. 11 on Cmaj from the RH Piano Melodies Book 1.

4th & 5th week Lesson outlines:
A. Kinds and values of musical notes 1:
1. Semibreve, Minims and Crotchets.
2. Drawing of the above listed note values
3. Practice exercises for the learning of the counting (reading) of the notes.

B. Principle of the placement of these notes on the stave:
1. Below the third line.
2. On the third line.
3. Above the third line.

C. The Cmajor scale:
1. The voicing of the Cmajor scale.
2. The Cmajor scale spelling
3. The Cmajor scale key signature
4. Placing the Cmaj scale on the stave
5. Cmajor scale preludes placed on the stave and their interpretations.
6. The pianoforte fingering for Cmajor scale.

D. The Gmajor scale:
1. The voicing of the Gmajor scale.
2. The Gmajor scale spelling
3. The Gmajor scale key signature
4. Placing the Gmaj scale on the stave
5. Gmajor scale preludes placed on the stave and their interpretations.
6. The pianoforte fingering for Gmajor scale.

E. The Music stave and the Descant Recorder 2:
1. The Low E on the Recorder and the stave.
2. The Low F on the Descant Recorder and the stave.
3. The low G on the Descant Recorder and the stave.
4. The Low A on the Descant Recorder and the stave.
5. The Low B on the Descant recorder and the stave.
6. The high C on the Descant recorder and the stave.

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

6th week: TEST OF APPLIED MUSIC 1

7th week Lesson outlines:
A.  Sight-reading exercises for the Recorder (exercises Nos. 1-3: refer to the Recorder playlist).

B. Families of Musical Instruments 1:
1. Woodwinds
2. Strings
3. Percussion

C. Sight-reading exercises for pianoforte (Exercises Nos. 1-3)

D. Assignment: Melodious Exercises Nos. 4-5 on for Piano and Recorder.

8th & 9th Week Lesson outlines:
A. The Dmajor scale:
1. The voicing of the Dmajor scale.
2. The Dmajor scale spelling
3. The Dmajor scale key signature
4. Placing the Dmaj scale on the stave
5. Dmajor scale preludes placed on the stave and their interpretations.
6. The pianoforte fingering for Dmajor scale.

B. The Amajor scale:
1. The voicing of the Amajor scale.
2. The Amajor scale spelling
3. The Amajor scale key signature
4. Placing the Amaj scale on the stave
5. Amajor scale preludes placed on the stave and their interpretations.
6. The pianoforte fingering for Amajor scale.

C. Further Melodious exercises and Sight-reading exercises for Piano and Recorder.

10th week: Revisions.

11th week: TEST OF APPLIED MUSIC 2.
*end of term project: more sight reading exercises (refer to Piano and Recorder playlists).