Buying your first piano or keyboard? It can be a difficult choice, you don’t want something that you or your child are going to outgrow in a few months. But you might not want to invest too much is the beginning if you aren’t sure how long you or your child will stick with the…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…