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Scale level challenge reward stickers

Scale Reward Stickers – Acknowledging Student’s Scale Achievements

These scale reward stickers are part of my new, integrated challenges system, and compliment the scale level challenges I posted recently. These scale reward stickers will be awarded to students as they complete a scale level, and will go on the front of their practice/theory folders for all to see. I got my stickers printed at moo.com…

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Filed Under: Scales & Technique Tagged With: challenges, incentives, music teaching, music theory, piano scales, piano teaching

Piano scale spinners

DIY Piano Scale Spinners – Full Assembly Instructions

A while back I posted my grade 3 scale spinner, and as I got started on one for a grade 6 student I thought I might give more detailed instructions on how to put a spinner together, as well as include a blank template so that you can fill in whichever scales (or anything else you…

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Filed Under: Composing & Improvising, Practice & Performance, Scales & Technique Tagged With: music games, music teaching, music theory, note names, piano, scales

finger numbers worksheets for piano students

Finger Number Worksheets for Piano Students

Below are two worksheets for reinforcing finger numbers with new students. Some will need a little help to remember that the thumbs are 1 on both hands, and try to make their left hand pinky finger number 1, so we need to get this straight from the start. DO YOU NEED MORE FREE MUSIC THEORY…

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Filed Under: Games & Activities, Music Theory, Practice & Performance Tagged With: elementary piano, finger numbers, music teaching, music theory, piano, worksheets

Step and skip worksheet for music students

Step or Skip & Space or Line Music Worksheets

These worksheets are for those student’s who don’t seem to quite get intervallic reading. For some kids this immediately obvious, and others just need a helping hand. From my experience, when a student doesn’t see it straight away, it comes down to one of two issues. Either they don’t know get the difference between a…

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

Raining notes music worksheet

It’s Raining Notes! Middle C Position Worksheet

It’s Raining Notes is a worksheet for the early elementary piano student to reinforce bass G to treble F. The more thoroughly grounded the first few notes a student learns are, the more confident sight readers they’ll be in the long run. As with most assignments, this worksheet should only be sent home with a…

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

Note stems worksheet for music students

Note Stems Music Theory Worksheet

Ok, ok, this worksheet isn’t all that exciting…but note stem rules are just one of those things that kind of need to be drilled. I bring out this worksheet after a student has shown some interest in composition, but been confused and frustrated when they try to write it out, because it doesn’t look right….

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Filed Under: Music Theory, Practice & Performance Tagged With: music teaching, music theory, note stems, piano, worksheets

I,IV,V7 chords worksheet for piano students

I, IV, V7 Piano Chords Worksheets

This is a series of worksheets for the most commonly used chords in the three simplest key signatures, C, F, and G. You may have heard of “3 chord songs” and if you haven’t heard them called that, you’ve certainly heard the songs. They’re everywhere! If you feel like playing around with a super cool…

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Filed Under: Composing & Improvising, Music Theory Tagged With: chords, improvisation, lead sheets, music teaching, music theory, piano, worksheets

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

Buggy bass D worksheet

Bass D Buggy Bugston Bass Clef Worksheet

This is a set of two worksheets to be assigned or completed within the piano lesson, after Bass D has first been introduced. I find that if notes are highlighted along the way students usually notice more about them and see them as individual characters, so that they can be identified more quickly and confidently…

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Filed Under: Music Theory Tagged With: bass note worksheet, buggy bugston, music teaching, music theory, note names, note reading worksheet

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

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About Nicola

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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