Advanced Piano
Advanced Piano at CRHS encompasses a wide variety of students: they may have just finished Beginning or Intermediate Piano just last year, they may have been in lessons since they were small, or they may be anywhere in between. Advanced Piano just means "anyone that's not in their first years of piano"!
If you are an incoming student and feel that Advanced Piano is a match for you, come by and see Ms. Cardiff or Mrs. Kirk in E-119 sometime before choice sheets are due. We'll talk with you, get your information, and sign your choice sheet so you can get scheduled correctly.
Advanced Piano kids are at all different levels of study, just like in a private piano studio. While all kids are required to make progress in technique etudes, scales & arpeggios, and music theory exercises, repertoire is assigned individually based on where each student is at the beginning of the school year. There are two recitals (one at the end of each semester) and a few individual competitions in February. The class fee for Advanced Piano this year is $25, which includes $20 for the maintenance of the headphones and $5 for the subscription to "Breezin' Thru Theory", a music theory assessment website.
If you are an incoming student and feel that Advanced Piano is a match for you, come by and see Ms. Cardiff or Mrs. Kirk in E-119 sometime before choice sheets are due. We'll talk with you, get your information, and sign your choice sheet so you can get scheduled correctly.
Advanced Piano kids are at all different levels of study, just like in a private piano studio. While all kids are required to make progress in technique etudes, scales & arpeggios, and music theory exercises, repertoire is assigned individually based on where each student is at the beginning of the school year. There are two recitals (one at the end of each semester) and a few individual competitions in February. The class fee for Advanced Piano this year is $25, which includes $20 for the maintenance of the headphones and $5 for the subscription to "Breezin' Thru Theory", a music theory assessment website.
Events Calendar
UIL Solos that are in the CRHS Piano Library:
The spreadsheet shows all the piano solos that UIL will allow; the different tabs represent lists of greater and greater difficulty. If a line is highlighted in PURPLE that means CRHS owns a copy of it for you to use, and also to hand to the judge. Start preparing your solo now! The UIL Solo & Ensemble contest is usually in early February. See your teacher for details about signing up (before the winter break, $10 entry fee).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mRbIMaJa95WyE7RprL72QXTsIz5WTq7--PJwlkYeTjg/edit?usp=sharing
Links and Files
One Octave Major Scales! Learn them one hand a time first, but them move to playing them hands together and from memory!
Below are tutorials for the Hanon technique exercises - if you are doing the JUNIOR version, the notes and fingerings are the same but you don't go up two octaves - the junior version just covers one octave.