Keyboard Club: Week 1

Mr Gordon & Mr Canning

RULES
1. Keyboard off or volume down when
teacher is speaking
2. We will make you professional musicians
3. Music is not hard is unfamiliar, practice
makes perfect

4.We are going to have

FUN

Learning Objectives
Games
Learn some major scales
Learn a new song

Major Scale
A major scale is made up of 8 notes and starts and
end s on the same note. E.g. Starts on C and ends
on C
C Major
Scale

F Major
Scale

Uptown Funk- Bruno

Mars

Tasks- Figure out these lines and play them on the

keyboard

Task 1

D
G

D
F

G F

Task 2

D
D

D
D

Tea

Bar 1

Bar 2

Bar 3

Coffee

Rest

Bar 1

Bar 2

Bar 3

__ and

Rest

Listening To Music And Sounds

Listening is just as important as playing listen to the
songs and guess the genre on music.

Pop
Rock
Reggae
Jazz
Classical
Hip Hop
Other Genres

Tasks- Figure out these lines and play them on the

keyboard

D
G

D
F

D
D

G F

D
D

Verse 1 Melody and

Bass Line
1

F
C

F
D

C
D

D
G

D
G

Verse 1 Bars 3 and 4

1

F
C

F
D

C
D

D
G

D
G

Bars 5 and 6

C
C

C
D

Bars 7and 8 - Chords

D Minor Chord - Root

G Minor chord (2nd

Inversion)

7
A
F
D

Bb
G
D

Chords
Major Chords
Chords are several notes or intervals played
together. There different types of chords
e.g. Major chords, Minors chords,
Augmented chords and Diminished chords.

The basic chord has three notes, also known

as a triad.
You can recognize a major chord when you
hear it because it sounds happy.
Let's take a look at the major chord starting
on C.
This is also called the C major chord.
The "C major chord" consists of three notes
C, E, G.
Play all the notes separately, then together.

Inversions
Chord Inversions
A chord has as many
possiblepositionsas it has notes.
Since our triad above has three
notes, there are three possible
positions: root position, first
inversion and second inversion.

Minor Chords
Minor Chords
Minor Chords sound sad
Here are 2 chords that we are
using in Uptown Funk played in the
root position. Try to play them
Now that you have played them in
the root position lets try to invert
the chords

Root Position= D F A
1st Inversion = F A D
2nd Inversion = A D F

Inverted Chords
Root Position=
DFA
1st Inversion
=FAD
2nd Inversion =
ADF
Root Position= G
Bb D
1st Inversion = Bb
DG
2nd Inversion = D

Make you own song using 3 chords............

Eg. C Major , G Major, F Major, G Major , C Major

You give it a go>

C Major , __Major, __ Major, __ Major , C

Major