Keyboard Harmony 3 (5 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

Students are familiar with three and four notes in different pitches and with typical chord and accompaniment patterns, and obtained adequate skills for simple accompaniment and solistic piano arrangements.
Their playing is free from straight note-reading, and they have skills to adapt the style to that of Finnish dance and vocal music and afro-american music appropriately.

Content (course unit)

- familiarizing with three and four-note chords in various pitches and learning chord formation using absolute chord symbols
- making acquaintance with Finnish dance and vocal and afro-american music, and rehearsing a repertoire by playing and singing
- studying the diatonic circle of fifth in C, D, E, F, G, A and H Minor using various comps and root-fifth bass line
- familiarizing with twelve-bar blues structure using I, IV, V grade chords in pitches up to 3# and 3b

Further information

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