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Pensive Practice Cards

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Pensive Practice is a set of cards designed to enhance practice time for intermediate to advanced students. They will help piano students to practice smarter, more thoughtfully, and more creatively by assigning tasks and asking questions to get students really thinking about what they are doing during their practice time.

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Description

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***This is a digital resource that will download after purchase.***

There are 100 cards included in the pack, which are divided into 5 categories;

  • Jumble – mixing up practice orders and techniques to ensure the piano student is not practicing from “start to finish” each time, but rather giving attention to areas that need it in balanced manner
  • Rhythm – helps the student to see and practice the rhythm in new and fun ways
  • Style – challenges based on the style and musicality of the piece
  • Theory – questions and assignments to further explore the structure of the piano music
  • Memory – probably the toughest of the categories, these practice prompts will test the ‘mental’, not just the ‘muscle’ memory of the student to help alleviate those pesky memory slips that can happen under pressure

 

I designed these cards specifically to be used by adult and teenage piano students, there are no childish illustrations or wordings so as not to alienate the older piano student.  Younger students can also use the cards very successfully, but may need a parent’s or teacher’s help to read the cards. Students should already be familiar with the terms below to use all the cards successfully.

Printing

You can print as many copies of the Pensive Practice cards as you like to use with your own students. You are not however, permitted to sell, redistribute or send the files to anyone else.

Pensive Practice cards are set up to print on your own printer. The download includes pdf with or without cutting lines, so you can use whichever is easiest for you. There are also two different versions of the cards, one using American terminology, and one using UK/International terminology so you can use whichever suits you.

Terms Used

  • Arpeggio
  • Major pentascales (five finger scale patterns)
  • Staccato
  • Legato
  • Articulation
  • Accent
  • Beat
  • Lyrics
  • Rhythm
  • Interval
  • Musical form
  • Syncopated rhythm
  • Motif
  • Pulse
  • Fallboard
  • Melody
  • Semitone/half step
  • Bar/measure
  • Octave
  • Dynamic markings
  • Chords
  • Root note
  • Cadence

Materials Needed

Most of the cards do not require any extra materials, however for full use of some cards you may need the following:

  • Pencil
  • Coloured pencils
  • Post-it notes
  • Blank staff paper/blank manuscript
  • Tracing paper (or any other transparent paper)
  • Recording equipment (such as a smartphone)
  • Metronome (or metronome app)

Suggestions for Use

The Pensive Practice cards are very adaptable, below are just a few ways they could be used.

  1. Students can use these as a complete set to draw from randomly during their practice time. One per day, or just whenever they feel their practice growing monotonous and mindless.
  2. Piano teachers could keep a complete set, sending a few randomly or selectively drawn cards home with the student each week, and exchanging them at the following lesson.
  3. During lesson time a card could be drawn at random and the student and teacher could work on it together.
  4. Teachers could assign 5/6 cards from one “category” at each lesson, as the student progresses through the piece. First Jumble, then Rhythm, then Theory, then Style and finally Memory; each set given in this manner would be progressively more challenging.

License

The studio license entitles you to print as many copies as you like, as long as it is for use only with your own students.

Additional information

TYPE

Digital Copy: Single User License, Digital Copy: Studio License

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