This class is for beginners who would like to learn to play the piano or keyboard. You will learn to read music and play some notation which may be heard and played along with short sound files.

Advanced Piano/Keyboard Class:

This class is for students who have already started to learn to play the piano or keyboard. Each week will include a number of short pieces to learn. These pieces may be heard on sound files, which occasionally include a duet or piano accompaniment.

Cost: $25 New Students

$20 Returning Students

Courses are six weeks long.

Registrations close October 29th, 2008

Session start date: November 1st, 2008

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Intro Piano/Keyboard class:
Advanced Piano/Keyboard class:

Also…each registered student will be put into a drawing for a FREE class!

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These are both six week online courses where you will learn to read and play music. You will need a piano or keyboard to practice on for up to two hours weekly. You will also need music manuscript paper for theory work. A working knowledge of your computer is essential. The course syllabus can be viewed at the above links.

Classrooms will open on August 25, 2008. Registration ends on August 27, 2008. The first lesson will post on August 30, 2008

Back somewhere in the 1950’s there was a morning radio session called “The Hospital Half Hour”. I would often like to listen to this programme. In this programme, favourite music would be played. Some of the music was classical. There was one pianoforte piece called “Devotion” played by pianist Eileen Joyce. This was a piece of music I always liked, especially when Eileen Joyce played it .

In the same period there was a weekly radio programme called “Australia’s Amateur Hour”. This was very popular and I never liked to miss it. During this hour, artists would perform, either playing musical instruments or singing, and a winner would be announced at the end. The performances would vary from yodelling to operatic arias, and any instrumental playing. A pianoforte piece “Fantaisie Impromptu” by Chopin, was performed quite often, and I always listened in awe to this piece.

While a student at Gabbin State School, I do recall having a weekly music class. This was done by radio. I remember practising singing, as I strode around the bush, one song commencing with the words “The Spring Is Coming”. I don’t remember whether there was much follow up by the teacher after these classes were held.

Much of my early appreciation of music came through the radio media. Around the age of nine years, I used to listen to a radio programme called the “Willie Weeties Hour” comperred by Uncle John. This concert was held in Boans at Perth commencing at 10am every Saturday. The concert involved audience singing and solo items by young children. A lady played the piano, however I cannot remember her name. The opening song was a tune I will never forget, and the words commenced “Here we are again, Happy as can be. All good pals and jolly good company. Never mind the weather, never mind the rain. Here we are together Whoops she goes again.”

This is one of my earliest experiences of my appreciation of music, although this was not classical music; classical music would be a natural flowing on process from this. I would have enjoyed listening to these programmes for a period of one to two years.