1. Keyboard Skills
Year 7 – Spring Term

2. Step 3 – Moving Your Right Hand Around
We are learning how to move our right-hand around the keyboard.
Success Criteria
Describe how to do each method verbally.
Demonstrate method 1 – ‘thumb under and finger over’.
Demonstrate method 2 – stretching.
Demonstrate method 3 – moving.
Use one of the methods of moving my right-hand without looking at my hand.

3. Method 1 ‘thumb under and finger over’
Step 3
Method 1 ‘thumb under and finger over’
Success Criteria
Describe how to do each method verbally.
Demonstrate method 1 – ‘thumb under and finger over’.
Demonstrate method 2 – stretching.
Demonstrate method 3 – moving.
Use one of the methods of moving my right-hand without looking at my hand.
Thumb under
Finger over
We are learning how to move our right-hand around the keyboard.

4. You need to stretch your fingers to cover a wider range of notes.
Step 3
Method 2
Stretching
Success Criteria
Describe how to do each method verbally.
Demonstrate method 1 – ‘thumb under and finger over’.
Demonstrate method 2 – stretching.
Demonstrate method 3 – moving.
Use one of the methods of moving my right-hand without looking at my hand.
We are learning how to move our right-hand around the keyboard.
You need to stretch your fingers to cover a wider range of notes.

5. Remember to keep your hand shape the same!!
Step 3
We are learning how to move our right-hand around the keyboard.
Method 3 – Moving
Slide your hand up and down the keyboard so that your fingers are covering different notes.
C D E F G A B C D E
Remember to keep your hand shape the same!!
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6. Move your hand up the keyboard Move your hand down the keyboard
Step 3
Method 3
moving
Success Criteria
Describe how to do each method verbally.
Demonstrate method 1 – ‘thumb under and finger over’.
Demonstrate method 2 – stretching.
Demonstrate method 3 – moving.
Use one of the methods of moving my right-hand without looking at my hand.
Move your hand up the keyboard
Move your hand down the keyboard
We are learning how to move our right-hand around the keyboard.

7. Step 3 – Moving your right hand around
We are learning how to move our right-hand around the keyboard.