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Musical Alphabet Dice for Piano Teaching Games

Dice make everything more fun right? It’s much easier to ‘sell’ something as a game if you have a die for the student to use! There are so many possibilities for using dice like this, but here’s a few to get you started: Play all the “blank”s is great for beginning students. Try setting a…

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Filed Under: Creativity, Music Theory, Practice Tagged With: music alphabet, music teaching, music theory, note names, piano, piano games

Musical memory game

Musical Alphabet Memory Game for Piano Students

Memory is a classic kids card game and a great way to teach that x=y. Many of my preschool piano students love this music alphabet memory game. I use two separate decks for musical alphabet memory, one is CDE and the other FGAB. This split encourages students to find the notes based on the two…

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Filed Under: Practice Tagged With: elementary piano, music alphabet, piano games, piano teaching, young beginner level

Coloured stars for piano preschoolers

Pre-reading Games for Piano Preschoolers with Coloured Stars

For my youngest students’ first pieces,  I use a system of coloured stars or circles as notation. This is for simple pieces that they play with braced 2-1 or 3-1 fingers (donuts). Most pre-reading in music books uses the letters to help in finding the notes, but I teach kids as young as 3 so…

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Filed Under: Practice Tagged With: key names, music teaching, piano, piano games, pre-reading, worksheets, young beginner level

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: Practice Tagged With: elementary music, elementary piano, music teaching, music theory, note values, piano, piano games, 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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