Graded Piano Method

Cory loves teaching piano from the ground level up and organizing ideas, concepts, and techniques into a coherent system. This page features a solid, graded method from Grades 1-4 consisting of lessons in the important categories. Any beginner who follows these video lessons will have developed a solid foundation up through around Grade 4.

In addition, Cory has authored several books with BachScholar that may be of interest to developing pianists. To purchase the PDF Edition of any of these books, please click on the link where you may also find the link to order the Hardcopy Edition.

Cory’s Books for Developing Pianists

👍 HANON for Beginners

👍 Sight-Reading & Harmony (Grades 1-2) — Beginning

👍 Sight-Reading & Harmony (Grades 3-4) — Late Beginning

👍 Complete Guide to Major & Minor Scales (Vol. 1) — Beginning

👍 Complete Guide to Major & Minor Scales (Vol. 2) — Intermediate

👍 THE 12 MAJOR SCALES with New & Improved Fingering — Beginning

👍 J.S. BACH: 436 Two-Part Chorales: Essential Studies in Counterpoint, Musicianship & Sight-Reading — Intermediate

👍 DIABELLI: The First 12 Studies for the Piano, Op. 125 — Beginning

👍 MOZART: 24 Youthful Masterpieces — Beginning-Intermediate

Graded Piano Method — 228 videos

This is WRP’s generic graded piano method that includes four grades. Progressing through all these grades and categories should help one achieve a strong beginning foundation in piano technique and reading. Also, make sure to check out WRP’s guided instruction to Complete Guide to Major & Minor Scales (in 3 volumes) as well as many of the attractive, lesser difficult pieces on the Popular Classics page.

INSTRUCTIONS: Each Grade consists of four or five sections. One need not complete any section first before moving on to another section; however, all sections in each Grade must be covered and passed before moving on to the next Grade.

GRADE 1
GRADE 2
GRADE 3
GRADE 4

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