Enjoy Music, Play Music, Get Credit with TPS

How do you learn music in an online music class?

Start with an expert teacher, invite enthusiastic students, add in some creative audio technology, and you have a highly-interactive music class. You could even have an online concert (TPS students have done several).

Courses

Contemporary Music Harmony

If you want to understand how harmony and chord progressions work in today’s popular praise and worship music, then this one-year course is designed with you in mind! Although primarily aimed at keyboardists, guitarists, and bassists, this course will benefit any musician who aspires to compose, arrange, lead, or perform popular contemporary music. Students will thoroughly explore major and minor scales, modes, keys and key signatures, intervals, triads, four- and five-part chords, upper-structure chords, chord extensions, chord-scale relationships, voice-leading principles, and harmonic analysis of popular tunes.

Teacher: David Hammer (see bio below)

College Music Theory

This is a dual credit course that earns three college credits from Belhaven University. It is a great way for serious music students to get college credit for their music studies in high school.

Teacher: David Hammer (see bio below)

Teacher

David Hammer, holds a B.M. in Music Education from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and has an M.M. in Jazz Pedagogy and ABD status on a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Miami. He has developed and taught jazz curricula at the Interlochen National Music Camp and Center for the Arts, New World School of the Arts (Miami), and the University of Miami. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Jazz Piano at Florida Atlantic University. David spent nearly two years performing in the U.S., Japan, and Europe with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and has performed as artist/clinician at International Association of Jazz Educators conferences and with a variety of artists. He performs regularly in jazz ensembles and big bands throughout the south Florida area. He is also actively involved in the music ministry (playing keyboard and leading the praise/worship band) and the children’s ministry.

About TPS (at-tps.org)

• Live online classes since 1997
• 200 courses grades 4 to 12
• Traditional academic standards
• Adjustable credit options
• Timely effective teacher feedback
• Biblical worldview
• Academic advising and planning
• Diploma partnership option
• AP® courses with top exam scores
• College dual credit courses
• Honors courses
• Delightful instructive elementary classes
• Clubs and social opportunities
• Accreditation and certifications
• NCAA approved courses
• CA A-G approved courses
• Faithfully non-profit