12-Week Piano Fundamentals A1
Master the keys by ear and soul. Transform from reluctant player to confident musician.
Master the essentials of creative piano: harmony, navigating keys, syncopation, rhythm, improvisation, and developing your own musical voice and internal pulse.
A collaborative, live group journey into harmony and expression. We work in small cohorts to ensure every student receives personal, high-level mentorship through a live, iterative process.
Your Mentor, Ena
➡️ Berklee College Graduate
➡️ 15+ Years of Experience
➡️ Taught 500+ Students
➡️ Berklee Alumni
What are we going to speak about in this call?
Where you are in your musical journey?
What is your end goal?
& What you’re looking to learn through the piano?
Once I understand your goals and what you’re looking for, I’ll walk you through the different learning options available at The Piano Bubble so we can find the one that best fits you.
12-Week Course Curriculum
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Class 1:
The Keyboard as a Map
Understand the keyboard as a system of patterns. Locate notes and understand whole tones and semitones as the foundation for building and understanding the keyboard.
Class 2:
Major Scale Formula
Understand how a major scale is built using whole tones and semitones. Apply this formula to C, G and D Major and begin to recognise the same pattern across different keys.
Class 3:
Moving Through Keys
Add A and E Major. Work on fingering and coordination while learning to transpose the same structure into different keys.
Class 4:
Pulse & Rhythm
Develop a steady internal pulse. Understand quarter notes, eighth notes and subdivision, and begin coordinating both hands rhythmically.
Class 5
Building Chords
Discover how major and minor triads are built and how they relate to the scales we already know. Introduce numbers/scale degrees as a way of understanding harmony that can be transferred from one key to another.
Class 6
Chords Within a Key
Discover which chords appear within a key and which ones play a particularly important role. Begin to understand why certain chords are so closely related and connect these relationships to the Circle of Fifths.
Class 7
Harmonic Movement
Hear how chords create stability, movement, tension and resolution. Analyse examples from real music to recognise these relationships by ear and at the piano.
Class 8
Rhythm in Harmony
Combine what we have learned about harmony and rhythm. Coordinate both hands using chords with different combinations of quarter notes and eighth notes, developing simple accompaniment patterns.
Class 9
From Chords to Melody
Use chord tones and flexible scales over the keys we have learned to create short melodies. Explore a fundamental question: Can we maintain pulse, harmony and coordination while creating music in real time?
Class 10
Learning from the Masters
Listen to how great musicians create interesting ideas using very simple musical materials. Experiment with repetition, contrast, space, direction and rhythm to begin building musical phrases with intention.
Class 11
Make It Your Own
Take the same musical idea and transform it. Explore how rhythm, register, dynamics, articulation, accompaniment and variation can completely change the character of simple musical material.
Class 12
Integration
Bring together key, rhythm, harmony and improvisation in a short piece, arrangement or original improvisation, using the tools developed throughout the course with greater independence.
About Ena
Ena is a Spanish pianist, composer and music educator based in India. Trained in classical piano at the Conservatorio Superior de Música in Valencia, she went on to graduate Cum Laude in Contemporary Performance from Berklee College of Music, studying with teachers in Spain, Paris and the USA along the way.
Her work bridges classical and jazz, technique and improvisation, and she is drawn to a simple question: what makes music expressive, personal and alive?
With over 15 years of teaching experience in piano, ear training, theory and ensemble, both privately and in higher education, she helps students of all ages and levels find their own musical voice.
What are we going to speak about in this call?
Where you are in your musical journey?
What is your end goal?
& What you’re looking to learn through the piano?
Once I understand your goals and what you’re looking for, I’ll walk you through the different learning options available at The Piano Bubble so we can find the one that best fits you.