Keyboard for Beginners - Online Courses - Community Learning - 17:00-18:00

Online Courses, Nottingham

Date	3 May - 12 July 2022
Sessions	Tuesdays: 5pm - 6pm
No. sessions	10
Venue	Online Courses, Nottingham View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £30

About this course

This course is for absolute beginners who have an interest in playing the keyboard or piano. We will look at hand positioning, pulse, pitch and rhythm notation, structure, chords, scales, dynamics and articulation and expression marks - allowing you to play simple tunes as the course progresses.

By the end of the course, you will:

- Be able to play tunes with simple pitches and rhythms

- Be able to play to a pulse, both imagined and with a metronome

- Recognise and musically interpret in performance time and key structures

- Recognise and interpret in performance simple aspects of Western music notation

- Recognise and musically articulate in performance simple dynamic, expression, structure and direction terms

Resources required by attendees:

- Alfreds Basic Piano Course Book 1

- Piano/ Keyboard - these can be hired from Inspire Music for a small fee. Please ring 0115 977 3287

The course will not be running on the 24th May.

As this course is online, a suitable device such as laptop, smart phone, tablet or computer will be required to access the course. Zoom will be used for the live sessions and the link will be sent to you once your enrolment has been completed.

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: