Category Archives: music theory

Music Theory at our Piano Mini-Camp (2/3)

By joy (admin) | Published: 23 July 2010

In continuation of the series about music theory at our piano mini-camp, here are the descriptions of a few more of the activities we did: Music Adventures Board Game In my music theory classes, one of my goals was to cover as many areas within the broad scope of “music theory” as I could.  The [...]

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Music Theory at our Piano Mini-Camp (1/3)

By joy (admin) | Published: 22 July 2010

As promised, here’s more about the Music Theory classes at our Piano Mini-Camp a few weeks ago.  I didn’t create formal lesson plans per-se, but the next three posts will serve as a general outline of the activities we did over each of the three camp days. Gem Notes on the Keyboard & Staff Using [...]

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Teaching Music Theory: Our Responsibility

By joy (admin) | Published: 24 June 2010

This article talks about why integrating a music theory component is important for teaching private lessons in piano or any musical instrument. It is our responsibility as music teachers to give our students a well-rounded education in the area of music – including theory.

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Just Added: Navigating at the Keyboard Worksheet

By joy (admin) | Published: 22 April 2010

A new free worksheet has just been added to the Printables page: Navigating at the Keyboard. This worksheet is for young beginners who have only just recently been exposed to piano.  This worksheet is designed to help them become familiar with the layout of the keyboard so that they can locate and identify the keys [...]

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Just Added: Reference Sheet for Reading Music

By joy (admin) | Published: 12 April 2010

This free printable is a handy reference sheet to give out to students who are just learning to read musical notation from the staff. What it contains: notes and their values, eighth through whole. rests and their values, eighth through whole. word mnemonics for figuring out the letter names of notes on the staff: Treble [...]

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Just Added: Write In The Barlines #2

By joy (admin) | Published: 5 April 2010

That’s right, a new free printable worksheet has just been added to the Printables >Worksheets page: Write In the Barlines #2 This worksheet is for use after using the Write In the Barlines #1 worksheet.  This time, students must draw the barlines through both staves of the grand staff instead of through just one staff.  This [...]

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Group Piano Class Ideas

By joy (admin) | Published: 30 March 2010
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I recently came across this great video/podcast on Mario Ajero’s YouTube channel: an interview with pianist and piano pedagogue Dr. Julie Knerr.  Both Maria Ajero and Julie Knerr are graduates from University of Oklahoma’s widely recognized piano pedagogy program.  In this video, Dr. Knerr shares some of her game ideas for her group piano classes [...]

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Just Added: Write In The Barlines Worksheet #1

By joy (admin) | Published: 29 March 2010

That’s right, a new free printable worksheet has just been added to the Printables > Worksheets page: Write In the Barlines #1 This worksheet is an one I created a few years ago, and I thought I’d share it here for any of you to use!  My students LOVE taking home “extra credit” worksheets (outside [...]

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Just Added: Sharps and Flats Worksheet

By joy (admin) | Published: 16 March 2010

Just added to the Printables > Worksheets page: Sharps and Flats Worksheet In this free worksheet, students will practice… drawing sharps and flats in front of notes on the staff. identifying sharped and flatted notes on the staff. locate sharped and flatted notes on the keyboard. This simple worksheet is a great way to check [...]

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Just Added: Board Game “Adventures in Music”

By joy (admin) | Published: 18 February 2010

Just added to the Printables page: a free piano-bench-sized board game for music students, called “Adventures in Music”!  I am so thrilled to be offering this game on my website.  This is my first attempt at creating a music game for students, and I’m quite excited about the results.

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Just Added! Lesson Plans: Analyzing & Composing Music in the Romantic Style

By joy (admin) | Published: 2 November 2009

[This is a re-post of this post -- the files have now been added to the Printables portion of this website.  (Thanks, Natalie!) Sorry for any confusion.] Just added to the Printables > Lesson Plans page: Lesson Plans: Analyzing & Composing Music in the Romantic Style (also take a peek below) Also see the accompanying [...]

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“Printables” page has been updated

By joy (admin) | Published: 28 September 2009

If you head over the the Printables page, you will see that it has undergone a complete makeover!  I was having a great deal of difficulty with the WordPress plugin I was using to organize and display my printables, so finally I scrapped it totally and found another one.  Although it is not as fancy [...]

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