All new students must take the piano placement exam during the first week of classes in the fall semester. There will be a sign-up sheet on Alan Huckleberry's office door after new student orientation the Sunday prior to the first day of the fall semester. If you are signed up for group piano that first week, you will complete the placement exam during that first class period.

Piano majors are excused from this placement. 

 

Group piano I

  • Sight-reading
  • Harmonization using I, IV, and V chords
  • Transposition of the harmonization example (including the chords)
  • All major white key scales and arpeggios (hands together, 2 octaves up and down)
  • Prepared solo (optional)
  • Chord progression I-IV6/4-I-V6/5-I in all major keys

Group piano II

  • Sight-reading
  • Harmonization using all primary and secondary chords
  • Transposition of the harmonization example
  • All major and minor scales and arpeggios (hands together, 2 octaves up and down)
  • Prepared solo (optional)
  • Knowledge of all seventh chords
  • Chord progression I-IV-vii°-iii-vi-ii-V-I in all major and minor keys