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How to Choose Your Child’s First Piano or Keyboard

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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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: Creativity, Music Theory, Practice 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: Music Theory, Practice 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 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 Tagged With: music teaching, music theory, note stems, 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 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 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 Tagged With: catalogue, dynamics, elementary music, elementary piano, intervallic reading, level 1, music teaching, music theory, note names, piano, terms, worksheets

Theory Worksheet Catalogue for young beginner piano students

Theory Worksheet Catalogue – Young Beginner

Below is a catalogue of free music worksheets from some of the fantastic blogs from around the web, as well as my own. I am starting to assign worksheets at every piano lesson, rather than sporadically, and I thought it would be great to have a catalogue for everyone to draw from that is in…

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Filed Under: Music Theory Tagged With: black keys, catalogue, finger numbers, key names, music alphabet, music teaching, music theory, my first piano adventure, note names, note values, pentascales, piano, steps and skips, time signatures, worksheets, young beginner level

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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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