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Just Added: Scales & Primary Chords Worksheet 1 (CGDF)
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Just added: Performing at the Piano Worksheet
Just added: a new free, printable worksheet called: > Performing at the Piano Worksheet Just in time for the spring recital season, this fill-in-the-blank worksheet is intended to help prepare students for an upcoming recital or other performance by discussing stage presence and performance etiquette. Terms/concepts covered in the worksheet: Memorizing Applause Bowing Checking the [...]
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Just Added: Navigating at the Keyboard Worksheet
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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Great Resources for Teachers with Beginner Staff-Readers
Susan Paradis from the Piano Teacher Resources blog has written has excellent review of the The Perfect Start for Piano by Kevin & Julia Olson, a series of books intended for reinforcing note-reading on the staff for beginners and elementary level students. They look great – I love that fact that they are designed to [...]
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Just Added: Reference Sheet for Reading Music
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 [...]
Posted in beginners / elementary Level, by student's level, music theory, other resources, printables Also tagged free, how to read music, music, piano, piano teaching 2 Comments
Just Added: Write In The Barlines #2
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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Just Added: Write In The Barlines Worksheet #1
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: Hands & Fingers at the Piano Worksheet
Just added: a new free worksheet, available on the Printables > Worksheets page: Hands & Fingers at the Piano This worksheet is suitable for use with new young beginners, either in the private lesson setting or in the classroom piano setting. (I would not recommend using this worksheet with older students, because there is only [...]
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Just Added: Sharps and Flats Worksheet
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: Answer Keys to recent worksheets
It occurred to me that it might be helpful to also make answer sheets available for the worksheets of the Analyzing and Composing Music of the Romantic Period lesson plans. So, I have scanned my answer sheets and made them available on the Printables page. You can find them here!
“Printables” page has been updated
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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Resources @ makingmusicfun.net
Have you seen makingmusicfun.net yet? This site is full of free resources for both teachers and students. All the materials available at Making Music Fun have super-cute graphics in an “under the sea” theme. For teachers: Sheet music (both arranged and unarranged, organized by level) Composer worksheets Music achievement certificates Practice charts Manuscript paper Intervals [...]
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