Intermediate Piano and Keyboard Course

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Certified Course

Certified course is offered from London based Trinity Guildhall (Trinity College London's performing arts examinations division). Trinity guildhall offers internationally recognised graded musical qualifications. These are in the form of grades. The grades are numbered 1-8 and increase in difficulty the higher the number.

Non-Certified Course

EFMF also offers a non-certified course for working professionals, house wives, people who wish to learn Piano or Keyboard as a hobby and people looking to learn contemporary music. But at the same time, this course also offers limitless scope for musical expression to those willing to devote the time and practice to it. The course can, therefore, be used either as an introductory guide to the first steps of learning to play the instrument or as the basis for a more serious study of music theory, music notation and more advanced techniques.

The course includes 8 (Eight) months of Beginners program, 6 (Six) months of Intermediate program and 6 (Six) months of Advance training in contemporary music.

Learning to play the Piano or Keyboard is largely a process of committing skills to instinct, of developing the necessary motor skills or what is sometimes known as "finger memory". And only way to achieve this by practicing - repeating the same thing over and over until it becomes automatic!!.

Intermediate course for piano and keyboard

• Understanding the effect of articulations and dynamics in a melody.

• Alteration of basic chords – suspensions, augmentation, and diminution.

• 4 part chord voicing.

• Harmonic minors and melodic minors and their triads.

• Introductions to tonic, subdominant and dominant triads ( I – IV – V)

• 12 bar blues.

• Added ninth chords.

• Rock n roll and boogie woogie riffs.

• Introductions to modulation.

• Introductions to modes – locrian, Phrygian, Phrygian dominant.

• Jazz scales – diminished, bebop, And whole tone scale.

• What are chromatic scales and Chromatic approach in a melody.

• Introductions to bass lines – alberti bass, walking bass line and rag time.

• Tips for making a melody with scales and arpeggios.

• Intervals - major, minor perfect , augmented and diminished intervals

• Exercises for hand co- ordination, accuracy, and Figure flexibility

• Relation of chords and application.

• Circle of fifths.

• Techniques of using different tones rhythms, controllers, pedals, pitch bends etc. (only for electronic keyboard students).

Eastern Fare Music Foundation

Eastern Fare Music Foundation is one of the India’s foremost independent music schools. The school is governed by a Board of Directors. This Board is made up of talented volunteers, faculty and parent representatives.
The institution was launched in Feb 2009 in Koramangala with only twenty-five students. Today we have about 400 young people from over forty different cities registered in our program at the Bellendur, HSR, Koramangala, HAL and other locations all over India.
We operate on an open door and a first-come, first-serve policy. Our school serves students witrh low-income and children from low-income families. These children are given opportunities to take subsidized, private or group music lessons in a safe, nurturing environment.