Shapes
A Music Method for the Expert Beginner
Contents
Lesson Sequences:
• Playing With Songs
• Tactile Reading
• Chord & Key Levels
• Tonescapes & Tensions
• Reading Imagery
• Lesson 1: A Shape
Commentary: Why Music Videos?
• Lesson 2: Different Shapes
Commentary: What Is a Shape?
• Lesson 3: A Group of Shapes
Commentary: Is This the Circle of Fifths?
• Lesson 4: Shape Fingerings
Commentary: The Centered Keyboard
• Lesson 5: The Anchor Note
Commentary: What is the Anchor?
• Lesson 6: Playing With the Anchor
Commentary: Musical Structures
• Lesson 7: Bass Notes
• Lesson 8: Matching A Shape
• Lesson 9: Notes In Time
• Lesson 10: Changes
Commentary: Chord and Key Levels
• Lesson 11: Groups of Shapes
• Lesson 12: Reading by Touch
• Lesson 13: A Tonescape and Tensions
• Lesson 14: Imagination as an Instrument
• Lesson 15: Two Higher and Lower
Commentary: What is a Tonescape?
• Lesson 16: Reading by Ear
• Lesson 17: Switch To Number Names
• Lesson 18: Reading by Touch Part 2
• Lesson 19: Moods
• Lesson 20: Reading by Ear Part 2
• Lesson 21: Light and Heavy Tensions
• Lesson 22: Reading by Ear Part 3
• Lesson 23: Reading by Touch Part 3
• Lesson 24: Moods and Tensions Together
• Lesson 25: Getting Inside of Moods
• Lesson 26: Reading by Ear Part 4
Commentary: Shape and Standard Notation
• Lesson 27: Making Time Relative
• Lesson 28: All Moods and Tensions
• Lesson 29: Mood Notes
Commentary: Chord-Modes
• Lesson 30: Incidentals
• Lesson 31: Independent Solfege
• Lesson 32: Free Play