Keyboard lessons
Keyboard lessons that helps you play contemporary pop music
Keyboard lessons that helps you discover your piano style and build on your fundamentals in pop music.
Our keyboard lessons is designed to help students attain just that. It aims to provide holistic growth for every student. Apart from music theory, you’ll learn the right finger techniques to play with ease and accuracy, sight reading skills, chords to implement in your playing, and scales to get the right balance and control at the keyboard. Ear training will also be provided to develop your ears to be well-tuned so that you get an intuitive understanding of what you hear. You will also get to explore various styles and genres of music such as pop, rock R&B, Bossa Nova to become an all-rounded pianist.
Regardless of your learning style and previous experience, we aim to provide value-added, enjoyable, and inspiring learning opportunities for every student. Therefore, every pop piano and keyboard lesson is designed in a structured manner, yet remains tailored and adaptable to every student’s needs and goal.
What Makes our lessons different?
What you can expect to learn
1. Your favorite songs – Have a song you’ve been wanting to play? we’ll help you get there 2. Ear Training – Hone your listening skills & develop your ears to be well-tuned so that you can identify musical elements naturally. 3. Keyboard Techniques – Master the different elements of pop piano playing 4. Chords for Pop songs – Learn various chords to implement in your playing 5. Scales – Learn scales help you get balance and control at the keyboard, improve coordination and is effective in helping you play wide range of keys naturally. 6. Music Theory – Set your foundation right, understand and interpret written music and translate that into your playing. 7. Pop Song Transcription – Develop skills to transcribe any songs in the future. In addition, our instructors are able to provide transcription for you based on your level of playing, at no additional cost. 8. Different Genres such as:
- Rock
- Pop
- R&B
- Shuffle
- Bosa Nova
What Can You Expect To Learn:
Song: So sick
Song: Careless Whisper
Song: Man in the mirror
Levels
Theory:
- Major Scales (C,G,D,A,E,B,F)
- Major, Minor and Diminished Triads
- Add9 Chord
- Techniques:
- Triad broken chords
- Rhythm Training
- Basic Ending Pattern
- Objectives:
- Students will learn how to
- play pop ballad songs in C,
- F and G major key, as well
- as improvise with simple
- broken chord patterns on
- the left hand.
- Course Duration:
- 3 – 6 months
Theory:
- Major Scales (Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb)
- Augmented and Sus4 triads
- Diatonic Triads
- Inversions
- Techniques:
- Inverted broken chords
- Add9 broken chords
- Ending pattern rhythmic variation
- Fill ins
- Right hand harmonization
- Melodic displacement
- Ear training:
- Rhythmic and Melody Dictation
- Songs transposition by ear
- Objectives:
- Students will learn how to
- play pop ballad songs in
- different keys, improvise
- with different left hand
- patterns, add in fill-ins as
- well as harmonization on
- the right hand.
- Course Duration:
- 6 – 12 months
Theory:
- Compound time
- Passing note
- Basic Re-harmonization
- Interval recognition
- Major7th, Dominant7th
- and minor7th chords
- Half diminished and full
- diminished chords
- Dom7sus4 n Dom9 sus4
- Diatonic 7th
- Techniques:
- Slow rock (6/8 style)
- Rock Style
- RnB Ballad Style
- Shuffle/Swing Style
- Bossa nova
- Building chord progression
- for intro
- Ending patterns with chord
- substitutions
- Ear training:
- Chords Identifications
- Pop Songs Transcription
- Objectives:
- Students will not only learn
- how to play different kinds
- of style in pop, but also how
- to apply Major7th, Dominant
- 7th, Minor 7th, Diminished,
- and Suspension chords.
- Moreover, students will
- acquire the ability to create
- various introductions and endings.
- Course Duration:
- 12 – 18 months
Course Fee
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Each lesson lasts 45 minutes.
We provide high-quality instruction with flexible lesson plans to suit your needs.
Student Testimonials
It’s been a real pleasure working with Putri from Alternate Tone so far. Having not touched a piano in decades, I really wanted to reconnect but was apprehensive. She’s really helped re-inspire me by breaking things down, showing extreme patience and also being
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CONTACTS
Alternate Tone Pte Ltd- Music School
29b Seah St - Singapore - 188385
Tel: +65 8115 9378
Email: info@alternatetone.com
Open: Mo-Fr 12:30-21:30
Sa 10:00-18:00