Get in the spirit with these Christmas music theory worksheets! Having a holiday coming up always gets me in the mood for creating some fun themed resources. I know not all your families (or all of you teachers!) will be celebrating Christmas. But for those that do Christmas music theory worksheets can add a little extra…
elementary music
Barline Worksheets for Reviewing Beginning Time Signatures
Two worksheets to help understand 4:4 and 3:4 time signatures. While drawing the bar-lines to reinforce the time signatures, students will also be reviewing note values. Getting to grips with time signatures is vital to be able to write your own rhythms, and is important for the overall comprehension of how music is built. Just click…
Whose hat? – Beginner Grand Staff Worksheet for Note Names
You can never over review note names right? After all when note reading isn’t a stress, we can concentrate on more exciting things like rhythm, piano technique, dynamics and artistry. So here’s another worksheet for beginning piano students to review the first few notes either side of middle C. Simply match each hat to the…
Grand Staff Blank Notes Worksheet for Note Naming Practice
As soon as the grand staff is introduced in piano lessons, I do everything I can to help students understand how it works. This is key to future note reading success at the piano. Memorising notes along the way helps, but if you don’t “get it” it can cause so many problems later on. Music…
Piano Key Name Worksheets for Piano Students
It’s very important to me to make key names completely secure in the piano student’s mind from the get go. The first activity we normally do in the piano lesson is to start and the very bottom of the piano naming the key names as we go. I normally begin this process, and ask the…
Grand Staff Tracing and Colouring Worksheet
Young beginner methods (such as MFPA) usually use pre-reading techniques. When the grand staff is introduced it can be a bit intimidating. This worksheet helps take some of the mystery out of it, something you’ve coloured in yourself can’t be that scary anymore can it?! American and British versions below, even though the only difference…
Major and Minor Chords Worksheet
Chords are so important in my piano lessons! Especially with teenagers and adult students, chords are what allow us to have fun and create rich, full sounding music using lead sheets and improvisation. It’s very important to me that my piano teaching allows students to feel confident with chording, and that chords are “under their…
Fishy Steps on the Staff – Step and Skip Worksheet
Intervalic reading in the piano lesson is very important. Of course we spend time on note names too, but when a pianist is reading music, they are not thinking “Ok the next note is ‘e’, then ‘c’, then ‘a’….” that would be far too slow! I introduce steps almost immediately after a student’s first introduction to…
Theory Worksheet Catalogue – Level 2
This is the fourth in a series of catalogues designed to help piano teachers assign appropriate content after each piano lesson. This catalogue uses the order that theory concepts are introduced in Faber’s ‘Piano Adventures’ book 2A and 2B. I have tried to assemble the best free theory worksheets from some of the fantastic music…
Theory Worksheet Catalogue – Level 1
This is the third post in my series of music theory worksheet catalogues, see the end of this post for the other catalogues in this series. This page provides links to free worksheets from around the web, listed in the order that music theory concepts are covered in Faber’s ‘Piano Adventures’ level 1. These are just…