You hear a song on the radio or TV (do you still have one of those???), or on Soundcloud, or on YouTube Music, Apple Music, or whatever your favorite streaming service is, and you LOVE it, and you want to sit down at your keyboard and play it. You want to understand how the song works, how it gets to you, why you love it. If that ever happens to you, then you will want to take this course. We will take songs that you love, and work through them, figuring out not just the melody and harmony, but the logic underlying the beauty. All you need is a keyboard (and minimal keyboard skills) and a song you love and would love to play. We’ll get through as many songs as we can ... any musical genre (pop, rock, country, folk, classical, jazz, Broadway), but preferably short songs ... no, we can’t do Wagner’s Ring cycle, but maybe we could do a bit of the Liebestod.

NOTE: Students must have access to a keyboard during the Zoom class sessions.