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What you can learn at PFG Music:
- For Beginners (Keyboard)
- Piano Adventures by Randall and Nancy Faber
- A very popular course with teachers and students
- Lesson books and plenty of supplimentary books
- A good prep for the RCM piano grades (Royal Conservatory)
- Royal Conservatory Piano (and Theory Co-requisites)
- Exams are held three times a year – Winter, Spring and Summer
- Grade 8 piano, together with Advanced Rudiments are accepted as a grade 12 high school credit in Ontario
- Christopher Norton "Connections" for Piano
- This eight-book set is a graded program
- Provides an excellent way of learning the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic language of contemporary popular music styles (Jazz, Latin, etc.)
- Beginner Guitar
- Learn the basics thoroughly
- Read notes, musical signs, strum chords, sing and learn lots of songs!
- Focuses on ages 6-15 years old
- Popular Piano and Keyboard Styles
- Play by chord – play chords in a variety of rhythm patterns
- Read "leadsheets", add fills, runs, etc.
- You choose your favourite songs to work on
- Play from sheet music – Thousands of today's (and yesterday's) popular songs are available on sheet music, solo piano and easy piano editions
- Play by ear – No nonsense methods for developing your ability (Yes you can!)
- Specific styles – What's your main interest? Rock, blues, pop, jazz, new age, country, movie themes, broadway, latin, gospel?
- Jazz Piano and Theory
- Most effective methods by the best authors and jazz educators
- Repertoire comes first, then: improvisation, harmony, chord voicing, comping, and many more topics
- Jazz improvisation for all instruments
- Modern Keyboard Harmony
- Chords, inversions, voice leading, chord progression, voicings, harmonization of melodies, reharmonization, transposition, harmonic analysis of tunes
- Relative Pitch Training
- Play back (or write down) melodies by ear, scales, chords, chord progressions, rhythmic patterns
- Essential to all musicians
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