SAMPLE LESSONS
Music Reading
Piano Lessons for Adult Beginners OverviewUnit Overview
Measures
Time Signatures
Quarter Notes and Quarter Note Rests
Counting
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Song Tutorials
How To Play Fur Elise (Part 1)—
Dress Up Tricks
Epic Ending Trick—
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Learn To Read Music – This is the complete beginners sight-reading course (10 units total), including all videos, sheet music, and important sight-reading exercise resources.
Beginner
1. Numbering The Fingers
2. Piano Notes
3. Half Steps and Whole Steps
4. Pedals
5. Major Scales
6. Minor Scales
7. Major and Minor Chords
8. Roll Dress Up Trick
9. Chord Substitutions (Part 2)
Intermediate
1. How To Improvise
2. Practice Your Improvisation
3. Chord Progressions (Part 1)
4. Chord Progressions (Part 2)
5. Chords That Sound Good Together (Part 1)
6. Chords That Sound Good Together (Part 2)
7. Simplifying Complex Chords
8. Bar Piano Sound
9. Chord Substitutions (Inversions)
10. Chord Substitutions (Inversions Part 2)
11. Chord Substitutions (Major and Minor)
12. Chord Substitutions (Back Cycling)
13. Melody
14. Dorian Mode
15. Chromatic Scale
16. Hungarian Folk Scale
17. Parallel Minor
18. Right Hand Rhythm
19. Jazz Piano Tips, Tricks, and Secrets (Tea For Two Part 1)
20. Jazz Comping And Walking Baselines (Tea For Two Part 2)
21. Arpeggiating To Accommodate The Melody (Tea For Two Part 3)
22. How To Handle Jazz Repeats and Endings (Tea For Two Part 4)
23. The Essential 251 Jazz Exercise
24. The Ultimate 13 Chord Exercise (Level 1)
25. The Ultimate 13 Chord Exercise (Level 2)
26. The Ultimate 13 Chord Exercise (Level 3)
27. The Ultimate 13 Chord Exercise (Level 4)
Hard
1. Half Step Dress Up Trick
2. Inside Outside Dress Up Trick
3. Raciti Mix Up Trick
4. Chord Inversions
5. Slide Moves
6. Modulation
7. Tritone Substitution
8. How To Write A Pop Song
9. Blues Lick (Dr. John Ending)
10. Some Nights Dress Up
11. Live While We’re Young Dress Up
12. Jazz Voicing
13. Thirds And Fifths
14. Two Chord Inversions
15. Arpeggios
Dress Up Tricks
1. Three Eighths Trick
2. Thick Chord
3. Drone Trick
4. Sustain Pedal
5. Transition Chord
6. Stutter Step
7. Musical Lead In
8. Super Fast Half Step Lead In (Love Never Felt So Good)
9. Parallel Motion Harmony
10. Left Hand Roots And Fifths
11. Suspended Seconds
12. Every Other Roll Trick
13. Spy Chord
14. Turn Around
15. Half Step Wiggle
16. Zippering
17. Wobble Rhythm
18. Ornamentation
19. America Transposition
20. Grounded Roots
21. Hornsby
22. Good Morning To You Dress Up
23. Ben Folds Dress Up
24. Jingle Bells Dress Up
25. Octave Twinkle
26. Suspended 4ths Drama
27. Auld Lang Syne Dress Up
28. Fur Elise Dress Up
29. Separating Sections (Happy Dress Up)
30. Raciti Arpeggio
31. Minor Seven Minor Six (Sing / Moves Like Jagger)
32. Epic Ending Trick
Song Tutorials
Fur Alice (Complete Series)
Gymnopédies No. 1 (complete series)
Moonlight Sonata – Adagio
Ode To Joy Theme
Prelude in C
The Entertainer
Prelude In A
Joe Raciti Arrangements
Music On Loan (Mash-Up of Ode To Joy, Isn’t She Lovely, Daughters, Saturday in the Park, and Put Your Records On)
Greensleeves (2 part vocal harmony)
Greensleeves (piano arrangement)
Stand By Me (Vocal and piano)
Jingle Bell Jazz (4 part vocal plus piano, bass, and snare with brushes)
In My Life (vocal)
Have A Very Happy Birthday (barbershop tag)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (4 part harmony)
Can’t Help Falling In Love (3 part harmony)
Can’t Help Falling In Love (piano arrangement)
The Time Signatures Are A Changin’ (choral plus solo)
Thou Rushing Wind (3 Part Vocal)
If I Can Help Somebody (2 part vocal)
Maoz Tzur Gloria (vocal mash up – 2 part)
This Little Light of Mine (4 part vocal harmony)
People Get Ready / Waiting on the World to Change Mash Up (3 part vocal harmony plus solo)
Game of Thones Theme (Boomwhacker and 2 part vocal arrangement)
God Only Knows (saxophone trio)
Rubbing It In (original, piano arrangement)
Over The Rainbow (piano arrangement)
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