New OER: Class Piano 2

[Abbey Elder]

Good afternoon!

I am excited to share that the second part of Iowa State University's 2-part Class Piano tutorial videos is now available on YouTube.

Iowa State University's Class Piano & Piano Pedagogy teaching professor Dr. Janci Bronson has created a YouTube education channel, Dr. Janci Bronson on YouTube designed to support student virtual learning within group piano and/or private lessons. Sponsored by the Miller Open Education Mini-Grant Program at Iowa State University, the channel covers the following key topics:  beginning keyboard technique, sight-reading, transposition, scales, arpeggios, chords, harmonization, and improvisation.

We released part I of these videos last year, and are excited to share part II, which includes overviews of major and minor scales, hand positioning techniques, and demos of specific pieces for learners. 

To assist group piano levels 1 & 2, playlists have been created, so that students may subscribe & easily follow along: 

• Class Piano I YouTube Playlist
• Class Piano II YouTube Playlist

Additionally, we’ve indexed this playlist on OER Commons so you can easily link to, share, and review the videos: 

• Class Piano I Videos on OER Commons 
• Class Piano II Videos on OER Commons

Note: Each video comes with closed captions, brief descriptions, suggestions to related videos, and chapters (“show more” under the video description). 

We hope you may find these supplemental videos helpful to share with your piano students.

Sincerely, 

Abbey Elder (she/they)

Open Access & Scholarly Communication Librarian

Iowa State University