- Hands-together five-finger patterns
- C, G and F one-octave scale preparation
- Legato and detached touch
02
MPW Grade 2
Elementary Player
Coordinate both hands, read more freely and begin useful chord and hymn work.
- Grand-staff reading around middle C
- Steps, skips and repeated notes
- Four-bar first-sight examples
- Quarter rests
- Paired eighth notes
- Two-hand coordination in 4/4 and 3/4
- Melodic direction
- Match tonic
- Echo four-note phrases
- Major and minor sound
- I and V7 in C
- Dynamic and articulation markings
- Four elementary pieces, including one lyrical and one rhythmic work
- Melody plus single-note bass
- I–V7 hymn cadence
- Simple two-bar introduction
- Question-and-answer phrases in C
- Continuous one-minute performance with a clear beginning and ending
Required evidence
Assignments
- Scale-shape check
- Grand-staff reading set
- Elementary hymn recording
Live teaching
Checkpoints
- Hands together
- Reading continuity
- Chord-change pulse
- Expression
Ready to progress
Exit competencies
- Coordinates two hands in simple textures
- Reads elementary grand-staff music
- Uses basic chords without losing pulse