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Fun note name worksheet

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…

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Filed Under: Music Theory, Practice & Performance Tagged With: elementary music, elementary piano, music theory, note names, note reading, piano teaching, piano theory

Fishy steps on the staff

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…

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Filed Under: Music Theory, Practice & Performance Tagged With: elementary music, elementary piano, music teaching, music theory, piano, steps and skips, worksheets

Theory Worksheet Catalogue for level 2 piano students

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…

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Filed Under: Music Theory, Practice & Performance Tagged With: catalogue, elementary music, elementary piano, level 2, music teaching, music theory, note names, piano, worksheets

Theory Worksheet Catalogue for level 1 piano students

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…

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Filed Under: Music Theory, Practice & Performance Tagged With: catalogue, dynamics, elementary music, elementary piano, intervallic reading, level 1, music teaching, music theory, note names, piano, terms, worksheets

Cloud note values worksheet

Cloud Note Values Musical Maths Worksheet

This worksheet can be used after the introduction of the dotted minum (dotted half note). I find this one of the most difficult for students to notice, that pesky little dot seems nearly invisible to some! The more they see it the better I say! (Especially since soon that dot will start jumping down below the…

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Filed Under: Music Theory Tagged With: elementary music, elementary piano, music teaching, music theory, note values, piano, worksheets

Drawing crotchets and minims

Drawing Half Notes & Quarter Notes (Crotchets & Minims)

Actually being able to draw notes makes it much easier to remember them, see patterns in them, and compose with them. So we start practicing early! The worksheets below are in British and American versions. (Click the image to download pdf) (Click the image to download pdf) (Click the image to download pdf) (Click the…

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Filed Under: Music Theory, Practice & Performance Tagged With: crotchet, drawing notes, elementary music, elementary piano, half note, minum, music teaching, music theory, note values, piano, quarter note, terms, worksheets

Note value worksheets

Note values worksheets with Owls and Balloons

These are elementary level worksheets for students have been introduced to crotchets, minums and semibreves (quarter, half and whole notes) and understand the number of beats each one signifies. Before assigning these worksheets we will have spent some time in the lesson marching and clapping the different note values to music, and also making our own…

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Filed Under: Music Theory Tagged With: elementary music, elementary piano, music teaching, music theory, music theory worksheets, note values

Pentascales worksheets

C and G Piano Pentascale Worksheets

The ‘My First Piano Adventure’ series introduces the C pentascale in book A and the G pentascale in book B. Pentascales (or five finger scales) are not only an excellent first introduction to the idea of scales for young beginners, but are also a great opportunity for improvisation and composition! No complicated instructions needed, once…

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Filed Under: Composing & Improvising, Music Theory, Scales & Technique Tagged With: elementary music, elementary piano, music teaching, music theory, pentascales, piano, worksheets

Dogs and gates for the groups of black keys

Helping Piano Preschoolers to See Black Key Patterns

To help students see the groups of two and three black keys on the piano I use these little figures of dogs and gates, as well as my piano builder. The reason I use dogs and gates is to pave the way for learning the key names later. When they already remember the groups of two black notes…

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Filed Under: Games & Activities Tagged With: elementary music, elementary piano, music teaching, piano for preschoolers, piano patterning activities

Rockin' rhythms

Rockin’ Rhythms – Introducing Note Values with Jumping and Stamping

These cards are a great first introduction to note values. Before talking about what each one “means” and tackling the maths of it all. I like to get students used to the shapes and their Kodály names. It’s much more natural and intuitive to call the shape “ta” than to say “this is a crotchet, a crotchet…

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Filed Under: Games & Activities Tagged With: elementary music, elementary piano, music teaching, music theory, note values, piano, piano games, worksheets

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Nicola Cantan is a piano teacher, author, blogger and creator of imaginative and engaging teaching resources. She loves getting piano students learning through laughter, and helping teachers to teach through games and off-bench activities, so that their students giggle their way through music theory and make faster progress.

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