Course curriculum

    1. Excerpt: Teacher Training Material - Notes

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    1. Directing Students to Purchase Student Materials

    2. Teacher Training Notes

    3. Danny Boy Substitutuions

    1. Reference Book

    2. Chord Families

    3. Chord Chart Extension

    4. Audio Transcript

    1. 1 Introduction

    2. 2.1 Types of Pieces - What vs. How

    3. 2.2 Types of Pieces - Everything Is a Combination

    4. 2.3 Types of Pieces - Sometimes Things are Fuzzy

    5. 3.1 Positioning - Accompaniment Ranges

    6. 3.2 Positioning - LH Position

    7. 3.3 Positioning - Mind the Gap (Examples)

    8. 3.4 Positioning - BH

    9. 4.1 Choosing Outside Material - Formats

    10. 4.2 Choosing Outside Material - Pros and Cons

    11. 5 Chord Names

    12. 6 Chord Families

    13. 7 Split Chords

    14. 8.1 ChordConverter - Installation

    15. 8.2 ChordConverter - Finding Chord Substitutions

    16. 8.3 ChordConverter - Writing Chord Substitutions

    17. 8.4 ChordConverter - Special Details

    18. 9 Keeping Rhythms Simple

    19. 10 Sight-Reading with Major Chords

    20. 11 Sight-Reading after Mastering Major Chords

    21. 12 Chord Substitutions with Minor Chords

    22. 13 Sight-Reading after Mastering Minor Chords

    23. 14 Chord Substitutions beyond Minor Chords

    24. 15 Chord Substitutions and the Chord Chart

    25. 16 Chord Chart Extension

    1. ChordConverter App

About this course

  • $20.00
  • 34 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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Instructor(s)

Master Simply Music Teacher Mark S. Meritt

Mark is a Master Simply Music Piano Teacher, teaching the method in-person since 2008 and online since 2009. A supplemental content developer, Mark created Tune Toolkit Comp & Improv (Vol. 1-2), the Happy Birthday Supplement, co-created the Curriculum Guide with Master Teacher Laurie Richards and Play with Simply Music with Master Teacher Robin Keehn. He has presented to Simply Music teachers at conferences and via webinars, contributed to Simply Music’s blog The Playground, and also serves as Simply Music’s Notation Editor and Simpedia Editor. A musician since preschool and songwriter since his teens, he’s written musicals and screenplays that agents represented, played piano on national TV including once doing Name That Tune with Rosie O’Donnell, performs and teaches as a musical director for improvisational theatre, plays live by-request piano karaoke sing-alongs, and has many other interests.