Do you have a theory book series you use and love? If so that’s awesome! I however have never found a theory book I liked..not even close. I’ve used the theory books by our local Irish exam board, and other exam boards, and independent ones. And I’m sorry to say I pretty much hated all…
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Grand Staff Blank Notes Worksheet for Note Naming Practice
As soon as the grand staff is introduced in piano lessons, I do everything I can to help students understand how it works. This is key to future note reading success at the piano. Memorising notes along the way helps, but if you don’t “get it” it can cause so many problems later on. Music…
Blank Scale Keyboards Worksheet
The more ways we experience a new concept, the more likely we are to remember it. In my piano lessons when we are learning a new scale (or perhaps reviewing old ones that have been completely forgotten!) we generally learn them first by rote, where the student and I play together, the student copying my playing….
Piano Key Name Worksheets for Piano Students
It’s very important to me to make key names completely secure in the piano student’s mind from the get go. The first activity we normally do in the piano lesson is to start and the very bottom of the piano naming the key names as we go. I normally begin this process, and ask the…
Groups of Black Keys Worksheet
“Seeing” the groups of black keys can be a challenge for young beginners, and it is essential in order for them to navigate the piano. It can be difficult to fully assess whether a student has grasped this idea within the piano lesson, so I like to send them home with this sheet after the…
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….
Grand Staff Tracing and Colouring Worksheet
Young beginner methods (such as MFPA) usually use pre-reading techniques. When the grand staff is introduced it can be a bit intimidating. This worksheet helps take some of the mystery out of it, something you’ve coloured in yourself can’t be that scary anymore can it?! American and British versions below, even though the only difference…