Music and Teaching Materials by Susan Paradis
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 | (SP001) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music This is an elementary to late elementary piece with a change of positions in the B section. It is a good piece to get students out of C position in the left hand. Students like the minor sounds and it can be learned quickly. ... (More) |
 | (SP002) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music Shooting Star is fast and the hands stay in five-finger positions. This makes it easily accessible for students with limited technical skills. ... (More) |
 | (SP003) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Music This is an easy early intermediate piece with a swing rhythm and a jazzy feel. I recently revised it so I'm posting it again for ... (More) |
 | (SP006) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This is a gentle pentatonic piece ... (More) |
 | (SP007) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music I wrote this for an older beginner. I wanted something expressive, simple enough for a beginner, and not childish. I have since used it with a lot of students and every one has liked it. ... (More) |
 | (SP008) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music If you have a little princess who is just beginning piano like I did, this will be the perfect piece for her. Written in middle C position, I hope the singable ... (More) |
 | (SP009) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music Written in the C minor 5-finger pentascales, this piece is easy to learn. A slow introduction of whole tones to give it an "outer space ... (More) |
 | (SP010) Level: Elementary Type: Music This is an elementary mysterious sounding piece ... (More) |
 | (SP011) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music This is a fast piece in D minor. Boys especially like the fierce dragon on the cover. The great thing about publishing your own music is that you can change it around. I.... (More) |
 | (SP012) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Poor Fuzzy Wuzzy is a beginning reading piece that comes from my book Sunny Solos. ... (More) |
 | (SP013) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a pre-reading solo with hands together. The words and photo come from my book Sunny Solos, but I wrote a new tune for a beginning student who was thrilled to be using both hands at the same time, and he loved the full sound. ... (More) |
 | (SP014) Level: Elementary Type: Music This is a soft and sweet piano solo that I hope your students will enjoy. It is from my soon-to-be-published book, Saturday Solos. This song contains steps and skips, and the right hand thumb is on middle D. Feel free to change the fingering to middle C position if you prefer. ... (More) |
 | (SP016) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music A Spybot is a robot who sneaks around spying on everything. Before you use this piece, check out the second page. It is more difficult than the first page. My students are always surprised, but I tell them you never know what you.... (More) |
 | (SP017) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Music This was on my website a few years ago, and I'm re-posting it. I wrote this for a middle school girl.... (More) |
 | (SP018) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music Students love jokes and satire. This piece has a funny title and it is fun to play. The A section is in G Minor position with some parallel fifths in the B section. If you work on i to iv in D minor, it is easier to learn. I notice I left off the fingering. Maybe you can do that for your students.... (More) |
 | (SP019) Level: Elementary Type: Music This is an easy Level 1 solo in C minor 5-finger position. It ... (More) |
 | (SP020) Level: Elementary Type: Music This is an easy arrangement of the well-loved children's hymn. The melody is a traditional English melody Royal Oak. ... (More) |
 | (SP021) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music I wrote this for a beginning older student to play in our Hymn Festival. This is an old hymn, but it has been recorded by contemporary Christian groups and many students are familiar with it. Since this is written for early level students, I changed the time signature to 6/4 so no eighth notes ar.... (More) |
 | (SP022) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This ... (More) |
 | (SP023) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Here is an easy version of America the Beautiful, just in time for the Fourth of July. Students at this level usually haven.... (More) |
 | (SP024) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This beautiful hymn that is a favorite of so many people..... (More) |
 | (SP025) Level: Elementary Type: Music There are many tunes to go with this text, but I like this one. I put it in the key of C Major ... (More) |
 | (SP026) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music I have set this traditional blessing to a simple melody. This is the pre-reading version..... (More) |
 | (SP027) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This can be played alone, or with the duet I posted. ... (More) |
 | (SP028) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music This is the duet part to a traditional blessing. I ... (More) |
 | (SP029) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This is an primer version of the famous melody by Beethoven. I have yet to find a student who doesn ... (More) |
 | (SP030) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is an Primer on-the-staff version of the pre-reading piece I posted last year. I changed the words slightly, and added new art and a very easy teacher duet. ... (More) |
 | (SP031) Type: Music This is a Primer level version of the Thanksgiving hymn. It has simple but meaningful words that children can understand. "Help us to do the things we should, to be to others kind and good. ... (More) |
 | (SP035) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Here is another pre-reading piece for beginning students. If students get the right and left hands mixed up, try highlighting the right and left hand staves in different colors. ... (More) |
 | (SP036) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Enjoy this short primer level piece with a teacher duet! ... (More) |
 | (SP037) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a pre-reading Halloween piece. ... (More) |
 | (SP038) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a pre-reading version which I have recently added some changes. ... (More) |
 | (SP039) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is one of my beginner.... (More) |
 | (SP040) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the on-staff version of the pre-reading Halloween piece I posted earlier. ... (More) |
 | (SP041) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the version on the staff. ... (More) |
 | (SP042) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the grand staff version of the pre-reading piece I posted earlier. ... (More) |
 | (SP043) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Another beginning Halloween piece. This one is not in landscape. ... (More) |
 | (SP044) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a traditional Halloween song I used to sing with my younger students when I taught elementary music. There's a lot to teach in this song, and I ... (More) |
 | (SP045) Level: Elementary Type: Music Here is a mysterious sounding piece if you want a minor piece that you can use now and after Halloween. Also, some students don ... (More) |
 | (SP046) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This a pre-reading version of the previously posted staff version. It can be difficult for a young child to read, so carefully teach how to sing it for several weeks before attempting to play it. Young students will have LOTS of trouble.... (More) |
 | (SP047) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a beginning reading Halloween piece with a simple teacher duet. ... (More) |
 | (SP048) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal If you have a new student in the autumn, this is something she can play at her very first lesson. ... (More) |
 | (SP049) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal I wrote this for a student's first piano lesson. There are no notes, the student just plays finger numbers and makes up an ending. Will they say "Boo" or "Trick or Treat ... (More) |
 | (SP050) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Because of the skipping fingers, this pre-reading traditional folk song is better for at least age 7. This is a white key arrangement of the little song I played on the black keys as a child. ... (More) |
 | (SP051) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a version of the traditional folk song arranged for students who are beginning reading. There is also a teacher duet. Set your printer for landscape orientation. ... (More) |
 | (SP054) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a pre-reading piece for beginners to play for Thanksgiving. It is written for white keys using all the fingers. Follow the picture of the keyboard for hand placement. ... (More) |
 | (SP055) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a primer version of the carol. I used big notes to make it look easier. You can.... (More) |
 | (SP056) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is another new version. This year I each hand a different color note, red or green, removed the repeating finger numbers, and moved it out of middle C position. ... (More) |
 | (SP057) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the first half of Deck the Halls for beginning students. There is only one skip, so it is an easy first Christmas song to play. The rest of the melody has a sharp that I thought might be too much for little ones. This has been updated with colored notes and a background for easy tracking..... (More) |
 | (SP058) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal I revised the entire page, including the art, the fonts, and the fingering. I hope you enjoy this pre-reading version! ... (More) |
 | (SP059) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is an elementary level version. There are no 8th notes, but there is some hands together playing to make it more interesting. ... (More) |
 | (SP060) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a traditional Middle C version of Jingle Bells. ... (More) |
 | (SP061) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Teach the eighth notes by rote in this pre-reading version of We Wish You a Merry Christmas. This year I have completely revised this song. The note heads were enlarged and.... (More) |
 | (SP062) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the on the staff version from a Christmas book I made a few years ago. ... (More) |
 | (SP063) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is an easy version of the famous carol with lots of finger numbers on the harder phrases. I usually have to teach the rhythm by rote. It is in the key of F and it scares some students to see a flat, but this is a good key to sing in, and maybe parents or siblings can sing or play along. ... (More) |
 | (SP064) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Here is an easy arrangement of this favorite carol. ... (More) |
 | (SP065) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This pre-reading version contains verses one and two only. It is recently revised to make it easier to read. ... (More) |
 | (SP066) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is not the tune that is in common use in the US. However, it is a very lovely tune that is well-loved by many, especially churches in the Anglican tradition and in the UK. This might be the only pre-reading version of this song you will see, so enjoy! You may have to show your student.... (More) |
 | (SP067) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Many teachers liked the pre-reading version of this, and requested I post it at the elementary level. In the version here, the melody is divided between the hands. There are eighth notes, but I taught them by rote and go so well with the words that it was not a problem. .... (More) |
 | (SP069) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music This is a late elementary arrangement of Deck the Halls. Students should be able to cross fingers and move the right hand to different positions. ... (More) |
 | (SP071) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the first verse only, written in a pre-reading version. ... (More) |
 | (SP072) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a primer level version, with all the verses. The right hand thumb is on middle D and the left hand thumb is on middle C. I changed the meter in order to omit 8th notes. ... (More) |
 | (SP073) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal After I explain what this carol is about, children really enjoy it. This is a pre-reading version that you can use with beginners and young children. ... (More) |
 | (SP075) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is an elementary version of the beautiful Christmas carol, Silent Night. I usually teach the dotted quarter note by rote. ... (More) |
 | (SP100) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a pre-reading version on the traditional song. It is in G with the L.H. in middle C position and the R.H. thumb on D. ... (More) |
 | (SP101) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music If your young student is past the pre-reading stage, he or she might like this version. ... (More) |
 | (SP102) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music This is the same folk song as the 2 versions above, but I arranged it for ... (More) |
 | (SP103) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music Some of my late elementary students wanted a Valentine song, so I arranged this folk song for them. If you know this song, you can see that the dotted rhythms in the melody have been simplified for this arrangement. I kept changing things around, but I finally decided to post this version..... (More) |
 | (SP104) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Pre-Reading Valentine ... (More) |
 | (SP105) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a very easy piece for students can read the notes in C 5-finger .... (More) |
 | (SP107) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal I made this for a beginning student in My First Piano Adventures (published by Randall and Nancy Faber) who started lessons right before Valentine ... (More) |
 | (SP150) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a pre-reading version of the favorite Children ... (More) |
 | (SP151) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a beautiful Easter carol that is simple enough for beginners. The words are by the same woman from Great Britain who wrote All Things Bright and Beautiful. ... (More) |
 | (SP152) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal My preschool beginner asked me to write him a song and since he has just started I wrote him this. It is in triple meter. Play it on the group of 2 black keys going up. For fun ask your student if she can play the shimmery lights of fireworks as they come down from the sky. ... (More) |
 | (SP153) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a pre-school beginning piece that can be used along with the Fourth of July piece I posted above. ... (More) |
 | (SP154) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a first piece to introduce playing quarter notes with two hands. If your young beginning student mixes up his left and right hand, the red and blue notes will help. You can also put a red and blue sticker on the hands for more reinforcement. ... (More) |
 | (SP155) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is another begnning pre-reading piece on the black keys with fingers 2 and 3. Print in landscape. ... (More) |
 | (SP156) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music One of my pre-school beginning students plays T-Ball so I wrote this pre-reading piece for him. T-Ball is baseball for kindergarten children. The ball is placed on a stand and hit by the child instead of having a pitcher throw it. Only 3 notes are used in this piece, C, D, and E. I.... (More) |
 | (SP157) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a piece for very young beginners. It ... (More) |
 | (SP158) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music I wrote another pre-reading piece for my beginning pre-school student and I am sharing it with you. I wrote the teacher duet to follow the rhythm of the student part because sometimes students have trouble playing along. ... (More) |
 | (SP159) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a pr-reading version of a traditional folk song that I made because children love to play songs they have heard. ... (More) |
 | (SP160) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is the companion pre-reading piece to What the Robin Said to the Worm, which is posted above. This piece is intended for young beginners. It is played on the group of 2 black keys using right hand fingers 2 and 3. Hint: Drop down into the keys with the hand. Don.... (More) |
 | (SP161) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal For my Canadian Friends, I have a pre-reading sheet just for you to use for Canada Day. This pre-reading song is in triple meter and is played on black keys going up the keyboard. Feel free to change the finger numbers. ... (More) |
 | (SP162) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This pre-reading of Hot Cross Buns is for the right hand on the black keys with really big notes. It is suitable for the first lesson. ... (More) |
 | (SP163) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Little children love to repeat things, so let them play Hot Cross Buns with both hands. This is just like the one I posted above except it is for the left hand. Check and see if they notice the picture has moved from the right side to the left side. I try to use blue for the left hand and red for.... (More) |
 | (SP164) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a pre-reading version of the children.... (More) |
 | (SP165) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a pre-reading off-the-staff Easter song about the Easer bunny. Students need to be able to use both thumbs, as well as alternate between the left and right hands. To help with this, I highlighted the left and right hand parts with different colors. That makes learning this a lot easier. ... (More) |
 | (SP166) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a very easy version of the pre-reading song, Easter Bunny posted above this. Print in landscape orientation. ... (More) |
 | (SP167) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal It is hard to find music for the Easter season. This version is for students in Primer or Level 1 method books. If your student has not learned staccato and legato yet, white it out. There are 2 pages and a very simple duet that a sibling or parent might be able to play. ... (More) |
 | (SP170) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a prereading version of a children ... (More) |
 | (SP172) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This is for pre-school students who are just learning the guide notes middle C and treble G. It is an extra piece to supplement a pre-schooler's book. Little ones don ... (More) |
 | (SP175) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This teaching song is brought to you by the letter D. In fact, that is the only note in the song. I use this to introduce reading D on the staff to pre-schoolers. Changing fingers several times helps students to not always associate middle D with the second finger. The teacher duet makes it more fun ... (More) |
 | (SP176) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This is the next letter is my series of beginning pieces to teach learning notes on the staff to young children. This one is E for elephant. See my blog for more information on how I use these sheets. ... (More) |
 | (SP230) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal Cut out these Valentine rhythm cards and fold to make a tent card. Place them around the room with the heart facing. Set a timer, call out a rhythm value, and have your student quickly find the notes. Students love this game. Great for groups or an individual lesson. For a non-seasonal version, see ... (More) |
 | (SP234) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal Students draw flash cards and cover the note names on the game board. There is one game board and 3 pages of flash cards. Students can play this game individually or with a group. Please see my blog for game instructions. ... (More) |
 | (SP235) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Sub-type2: Seasonal These cards are for beginners who are learning the names of the keys on the piano. Use the gameboard of the Hearts and Club Game #SP234 above, except substitute these keyboard cards for the notes on the staff. ... (More) |
 | (SP236) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal For this interval game, there is a gameboard and 2 pages of intervals flash cards. Please see my blog for instructions. ... (More) |
 | (SP238) Level: Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal The object of this game is to cover all the hearts on the game board with the heart cards posted below. Please see my blog for instructions.... (More) |
 | (SP239) Level: Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal These are the cards that go with the Steal a Heart Valentine board posted above. These cards contain many difficult ledger line notes for older students, but the first page has easy notes. Print what your students need. The fourth page contains.... (More) |
 | (SP260) Level: Pre-reading Type: Composing Activities Sub-type2: Seasonal If you didn't get around to the Valentine ... (More) |
 | (SP261) Level: Elementary Type: Composing Activities Sub-type2: Seasonal After your students have completed the Shamrock Composing Activity, if they are far enough along in piano lessons you might want them to put their notes on a staff. You can also use this staff to help older students get started in composition. This is good activity for Saint Patrick.... (More) |
 | (SP263) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Sub-type2: Seasonal This game is a take-off on Cecilly's Sharp and Flat Race to Middle C. It is a great game to learn the piano keys! There are two pages to this game. Print out.... (More) |
 | (SP264) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type2: Seasonal I hope your students will have fun writing the notes on this seasonal worksheet for Saint Patrick's Day. There are many different activities you can do with this, from simply writing notes to playing games with a magnetic wand..... (More) |
 | (SP265) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal Shamrock Rhythms is a very simple board game that you can play around Saint Patrick's Day, or any time! .... (More) |
 | (SP266) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type2: Seasonal This worksheet is a cute St. Patrick ... (More) |
 | (SP290) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal Most students love note stories. This is a fill-in-the notes printable about pet rabbits. Students learn a little about bunnies as well as review the notes on the grand staff. Use this at a group lesson or with an individual student for some Easter season fun. ... (More) |
 | (SP292) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Sub-type2: Seasonal In this worksheet, students label and color keys on small ... (More) |
 | (SP293) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a black and white egg puzzle to reinforce notes on the staff around middle C. Students color each section of the puzzle to go with the note names. You can use this as a worsheet, or cut it out and make a game. Check out my blog for detailed instructions. ... (More) |
 | (SP310) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading I made a summer game in bright colors that appeal to children. Students use either grand staff or keyboard flash cards and move to the correct letter name. Flash cards for the game are found below, including optional backs for the cards. ... (More) |
 | (SP311) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading These are the cards that go with the Ladybug Board Game posted above. Please see my blog for directions. The playing cards are on pages 1-4..... (More) |
 | (SP312) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading On this simple worksheet, students write the names of the notes on the strawberries. ... (More) |
 | (SP314) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is a short note story to go along with my summer ladybug theme. If you have students who liked the other note stories I posted, such as True Bat Facts and Bunny Basics, here is another one. It is also good for summer camps. ... (More) |
 | (SP315) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Print these on either printable magnetic sheets or regular card stock. Students match the symbol to the corresponding colored graphic. Please see my blog for instructions. ... (More) |
 | (SP380) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type2: Seasonal This Easter season printable has notes on the treble and bass staves with little bunny footprints leading to an Easter egg, Students write the name of the notes on the Easter eggs! ... (More) |
 | (SP394) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a little rhyme with blanks for students to fill in the notes to complete the poem. It is part of my printable worksheet series with.... (More) |
 | (SP397) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal Here is another printable worksheet with a summer treat theme. This one is a review of writing notes on the grand staff and is a companion to Yogurt Rhythms..... (More) |
 | (SP398) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal This is part of a collection of printable worksheets for the summer with the theme of summertime treats. This one ... (More) |
 | (SP399) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This printable worksheet is part of the series of "summer treats.... (More) |
 | (SP400) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets This is a set of 4 levels of a timed note reading activity. Students must be able to complete each page within a certain time period before they can go on to the next level. While this will not help students actually play the notes on the piano, it will.... (More) |
 | (SP401) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading There are 4 more pages here to go with the post right above this. I added some more notes to complete all the notes from bass C to treble C. I changed colors to help keep track of all the levels. ... (More) |
 | (SP402) Level: Late Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading The is the next series in the set of speed reading notes. There are four pages which use all the notes on the grand staff. ... (More) |
 | (SP405) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This game is for teaching or reviewing the keys to play when a note has an accidental. Sharps and flats are often confusing on the keyboard. This game is great for tactile learners, and it.... (More) |
 | (SP406) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Scales Play this game or use it as an activity to teach how to construct major and natural minor scales on a piano keyboard. Students love to play it, and it makes learning the concept easier. This is great for students who have trouble understanding "WWHWWWH ... (More) |
 | (SP415) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading I made this to help a student who had trouble finding the correct starting position. The PDF contains ... (More) |
 | (SP416) Level: Late Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This worksheet is more difficult than Find the Starting Note #SP415, posted above. Students write the finger numbers on the worksheet and then play the examples, using more difficult positions and accidentals. Excellent to check up on the student ... (More) |
 | (SP417) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a fun music game to learn note names and practice note identification. The printable is black and white and looks great on colored card-stock. After printing, choose which cards you want to use for your student or group..... (More) |
 | (SP419) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading You can use this as a game with a magnetic wand and as a diagnostic tool to test your beginning student ... (More) |
 | (SP420) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a fast Bingo game to review the notes on the Grand Staff. Depending on your time, you can play 3 in a row or black out. If you use a ... (More) |
 | (SP425) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a grand staff large enough for a student to manipulate a dime (or a small colored stone) up and down the lines and spaces. Young students can often learn better with manipulatives. On this staff they can easily see the C is the landmark note in the middle and can count up and down from there ... (More) |
 | (SP426) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Key Signatures Another teacher suggested this worksheet. Give each student a bag of candy corn and use it to to practice placing key signatures. ... (More) |
 | (SP428) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Have fun using peppermints to "write ... (More) |
 | (SP431) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is another grand staff to use for learning steps and skips, learning note names, or taking music dictation. I use glass "stones.... (More) |
 | (SP432) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids This staff is sized to use plastic chips that are about 3/4" in size and come with a magnetic wand to scoop them up. Students love these! You can order them here. You can also use any 3/4.... (More) |
 | (SP435) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Piano Keyboard This worksheet helps students learn the music alphabet with 4 different exercises on the page. The print is large for younger students and to make it easier to use with an iPad. ... (More) |
 | (SP437) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Rhythm This worksheet helps students practice beginning rhythm vocabulary, drawing note values, and counting. The print is large for younger students and to make it easier to use with an iPad.This is a companion to I Can Write the Music Alphabet. (SP435 above) ... (More) |
 | (SP439) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Rhythm This worksheet helps students practice naming whole, half, and quarter rests. They also practice drawing rests and counting them in a measure. The print is large to use with an.... (More) |
 | (SP490) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids This colorful poster can be used in your music studio. If you want a black and white version that students can color, please go to my blog and leave a comment with your request. ... (More) |
 | (SP495) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is an early childhood activity to learn to identify piano finger numbers, and to identify LH as left hand and RH as right hand. Students will match the glove to the hat. Please see my blog for directions. ... (More) |
 | (SP499) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Beginning students can learn their left and right hands with this worksheet. ... (More) |
 | (SP500) Level: Early Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Picture Scales These are 5-finger pentascale patterns on all the keys. The diagram makes it easy for students who are not proficient in reading music. ... (More) |
 | (SP501) Level: Early Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Picture Scales These scales are the minor version of the 5-finger pentascales. ... (More) |
 | (SP502) Level: Late Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Picture Scales Picture Scales help students learn to play major scales for memory. ... (More) |
 | (SP503) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Picture Scales This ... (More) |
 | (SP504) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Picture Scales These scales with the fingering on the keys help students who are visual learners and are an aid to memorization. ... (More) |
 | (SP505) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Picture Scales I tried to use the most common fingering for these two octave minor scales. ... (More) |
 | (SP506) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids This is a handout for intermediate students to practice writing all the major and minor keys. It is just like the colorful one previously posted, but this one is my original, in black and white. ... (More) |
 | (SP507) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids This poster/worksheet is to help students learn how to identify inverted chords. Print it out in card stock and either laminate it, cover in clear plastic, or put it in a sheet protector. Have the student fill in the examples with a dry erase marker. That way you can use this sheet over and over .... (More) |
 | (SP508) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids This is another poster in my humorous series about triads. This poster shows how triads move into 1st and 2nd inversion and uses humor to help students remember the word "inversion ... (More) |
 | (SP509) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids This is the next poster in the inverting triads series. It uses humor to show students how to play chords in first and second inversion. You can laminate these posters and use a dry erase marker to write in the fingerings. Students will learn the fingering for inversions in the bass clef is differen ... (More) |
 | (SP510) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids This is a poster with a little humor to show the major and minor Circle of Fifths. ... (More) |
 | (SP511) Level: Intermediate Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Key Signatures This worksheet can be printed out for students to ... (More) |
 | (SP512) Level: Late Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids Continuing the series with the Noteboys™, this worksheet is for students to draw inversions themselves. If you laminate this, the staff is large enough to use a dry erase marker. ... (More) |
 | (SP513) Level: Late Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids This is another theory poster featuring my NoteBoys, BlueBoy, RedBoy, and GreenBoy. The poster uses humor to explains the whole and half step pattern for major scales. ... (More) |
 | (SP514) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids The NoteBoys ... (More) |
 | (SP515) Level: Late Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Music Reading The NoteBoys are back explaining ledger lines, as well as a way to remember them. This is meant to be humorous way for teachers to review how to read ledger line notes with their students. By learning the line notes first, teachers can then explain how to read the space notes. Teachers can.... (More) |
 | (SP516) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids Join the infamous NoteBoys as they try in their own humorous way to present Roman numerals. I made this because some students haven ... (More) |
 | (SP518) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is a worksheet for very young beginners who are learning finger numbers. ... (More) |
 | (SP519) Level: Pre-reading Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is another worksheet for the young beginner, to review finger numbers. Thanks to JoAnn who sent me a prototype. ... (More) |
 | (SP520) Level: Pre-reading Type: Composing Activities Sub-type2: Seasonal Christmas train is for early elementary and young beginning students to write their own tune using finger numbers. Depending on the age, it might take more than one week. Be sure and set the printer to landscape view. ... (More) |
 | (SP521) Level: Elementary Type: Composing Activities Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a seasonal worksheet for students to compose a two-line melody in 3/4 time to words that I wrote. Go to my .... (More) |
 | (SP522) Level: Elementary Type: Composing Activities This is a short Chanukah activity to help ... (More) |
 | (SP523) Level: Pre-reading Type: Composing Activities Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a composing activity for young children in 3/4 time. Students can write in finger numbers or note names and also draw in the bar lines. ... (More) |
 | (SP526) Level: Pre-reading Type: Composing Activities Sub-type2: Seasonal This is another Easter season activity sheet in my series of composing activities for the beginning student. You can use any position you wish and students can write in either finger numbers or note name in the jelly beans. ... (More) |
 | (SP527) Level: Elementary Type: Composing Activities Sub-type2: Seasonal This is an Easter.... (More) |
 | (SP528) Level: Pre-reading Type: Composing Activities Sub-type2: Seasonal I made this so students can finish my simple melody with their own ending and give it to Mom for Mother.... (More) |
 | (SP529) Level: Elementary Type: Composing Activities Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a short Mother.... (More) |
 | (SP530) Level: Elementary Type: Composing Activities Sub-type2: Seasonal I composed 8 measures and your students can compose 4 measures. This song uses the C pentatonic scale, and I think it would be a good opportunity to limit the notes in their part to the 5 tones in this scale. Also encourage your students to end on the tonal center, C. .... (More) |
 | (SP531) Level: Elementary Type: Composing Activities Sub-type2: Seasonal Here is another composer activity. It ... (More) |
 | (SP532) Level: Late Elementary Type: Composing Activities I made this staff paper to give some guidance to students composing piano music. There are two pages. The first page has a grand staff and 3 measures to a line. The measures are numbered because that will help you a lot when you write a.... (More) |
 | (SP540) Level: Late Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This printable worksheet will help students learn correct music notation, especially the stem rules. This is great for level 4 of the Texas State Theory Test. ... (More) |
 | (SP541) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is a worksheet for 1st year piano students. There are two ... (More) |
 | (SP549) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal Most students love note stories. This is a fill-in-the notes printable with 5 facts about bats. Students learn something about our friends, bats, as well as reinforce notes on the grand staff. Use this at a group lesson or in a classroom for some seasonal fun. ... (More) |
 | (SP550) Level: Elementary Type: Music I had some students who could not remember the names of the bass clef line notes. After they learned the words to this song in More Sunny Solos, I noticed they finally could remember the bass clef lines. I decided to post it here to share with other teachers. ... (More) |
 | (SP551) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Flash Cards This is a set of treble and bass clef flash cards that you can print out on card stock and cut into individual size flash cards. ... (More) |
 | (SP554) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Goofy Piano is played like the Old Maid card game. There are 22 cards. The object of the game is to match up 3 of the same note in different octaves. Students do not want to end up with the goofy piano card! ... (More) |
 | (SP555) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Print several of these for students to arrange the music alphabet, write white key 5 finger scales, arrange the music alphabet backwards, and anything else you can think of. If you print 2 copies, students can start the music alphabet at different places. This is good to use at the first lessons .... (More) |
 | (SP556) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sometimes students need a worksheet ... (More) |
 | (SP557) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is a worksheet for early elementary students who are learning the notes before and after middle C. ... (More) |
 | (SP558) Level: early elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading For those of you who want guide notes and have black and white printers, here is a worksheet that I hope will help. ... (More) |
 | (SP559) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading For all of us who use guide notes, here is a new work sheet. There are only 4 notes, treble and bass C, middle C, F, and G. Each of these notes are used 3 times, so this worksheet is not as hard as it first looks to a student. ... (More) |
 | (SP560) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is a worksheet for all the notes on the treble staff. ... (More) |
 | (SP561) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Students write the names of all the notes on the bass staff under the note in this worksheet. ... (More) |
 | (SP562) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Piano Keyboard This is not a game, but a worksheet for beginning students to review the names of the keys on the piano. I printed 2 on each page to save on paper. Be sure and set your printer to landscape. ... (More) |
 | (SP563) Level: Late Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This worksheet is one more way to help students learn their notes. ... (More) |
 | (SP564) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is a worksheet to help students learn the bass clef notes. For my students they seem to be the hardest to learn. I have had students try this out and they seem to like it. I made it black and white for those of you without color printers. I drew the turkey myself, so be gentle! ... (More) |
 | (SP565) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is a fun worksheet that might be helpful in a group lesson. ... (More) |
 | (SP566) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is an adaption of a color worksheet for teachers without color printers. ... (More) |
 | (SP567) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a coloring activity to reinforce the name of the keys on the keyboard. ... (More) |
 | (SP568) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is another season worksheet to write notes on the grand staff. ... (More) |
 | (SP569) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is a worksheet that you can use during the holidays or for a Christmas time group lesson. ... (More) |
 | (SP570) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is another version to practice writing notes in order that I made for beginning students. If you had a student who was not ready for the Halloween or Thanksgiving worksheets like this one, maybe they are ready now. However, if you teach private lessons, use these worksheets sparingly and do it ... (More) |
 | (SP571) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is a seasonal worksheet to identify notes. ... (More) |
 | (SP572) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Piano Keyboard This is a quick checkup to see if beginning students know the keys on the piano. ... (More) |
 | (SP573) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading If you ever get tired of printing out things I make for my own students, here is one you can make for yourself. Be creative, and if you have a good idea, post a comment on my blog to share with others..... (More) |
 | (SP574) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is a worksheet for students to write notes on the grand staff. ... (More) |
 | (SP575) Level: Late Elementary and up Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a really fun board game from Cecilly that you can play with 4 students. Don't let the fact that it is not colorful keep you from using it. Once students put their colorful Skittles on it, it will look good. .... (More) |
 | (SP576) Level: Late Elementary and up Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols This is the game board that you use for Cecilly's ... (More) |
 | (SP577) Level: Early elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a game that, hopefully, new students can play. There aren't very many difficult symbols, just the ones students learn in the first few months of lessons. The game is for 2 students, or modify it for one student. .... (More) |
 | (SP578) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols These are the game pieces for the New Years Game I posted above, #577. ... (More) |
 | (SP579) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This is another worksheet in my holiday series of identifying notes. Set your printer to landscape. In addition to just writing the notes inside the hearts, you could also call out notes and the student can put something on the heart. You could use candy or a token. ... (More) |
 | (SP580) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading This Valentine-themed worksheet has all the notes from bass C to treble C. Laminate it and use if over and over. ... (More) |
 | (SP581) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Flash Cards My other set of flash cards this size [Grand Staff Flash Cards] doesn.... (More) |
 | (SP582) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a 3–page set of single staff flash cards to play fishing games. Make a fishing pole for your students with a dowel, some string, and attach a magnet on the end of the string. Or you can do what I did and buy a toy fishing pole at a dollar store..... (More) |
 | (SP583) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a very simple game for students just learning the names of the notes (keys, to be precise) on the keyboard. You call out a note and the student covers it with a token. Later, you can also make the game more challenging by using flashcards with the notes on a staff. Two keys ... (More) |
 | (SP584) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Here are some small music alphabet cards to cut out and use to draw and place on the key when playing the Cover the Keys game. I think these cards make the game more fun to play..... (More) |
 | (SP585) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading All the world does not use the same names for music notes. If you are from a Spanish or French speaking country, here is the musical notation you can use with your students. There are many games you can play with this, so try them out! .... (More) |
 | (SP586) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Christmas worksheet you can use at group lessons to practice note identification. The notes range from C below to C above middle C. ... (More) |
 | (SP587) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This is ... (More) |
 | (SP588) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Sub-type2: Seasonal I made this for a group lesson with beginners. There are 4 cards. The teacher calls out a letter and the student covers the key. The first student who covers a row or covers all the keys, wins. ... (More) |
 | (SP589) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This worksheet is for beginning students to draw lines to match up musical symbols. ... (More) |
 | (SP597) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a staff to practice writing note names. You can laminate this and use it over and over, or make a worksheet to pass out to students. You can turn it into a game by putting M&M ... (More) |
 | (SP598) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This is an Easter season worksheet for students to draw the names of notes on the colored egg shaped notes. Beginners who haven ... (More) |
 | (SP599) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids Print this out in landscape, cut it out and tape the two pieces together. This is a good resource for young children or children who need to learn with manipulatives. ... (More) |
 | (SP600) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard This is large 2 octave keyboard you can put together and use of the floor for games, such as Cecilly's Keyboard Middle C Bean Bag Toss. There are 5 pages to print, cut out, ... (More) |
 | (SP601) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading There are two pages to this set of cards for the Keyboard Toss game above. This is a game by Cecilly. There is a set of cards for each hand, one color for the RH and on for the LH. .... (More) |
 | (SP602) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a different and somewhat more difficult version of Cecilly.... (More) |
 | (SP603) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a large grand staff (22 inches high) for early elementary students to practice moving guide notes around the staff. There are 2 pages to print out which you can attach to make a grand staff. It is called Three C's because we are learning middle C, treble.... (More) |
 | (SP604) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading These are notes to place on the giant staff posted above. I cut the notes out including the inside of the whole and half notes before I laminated them. ... (More) |
 | (SP606) Level: Intermediate Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Scales A piano teacher requested picture scales without finger numbers so ... (More) |
 | (SP607) Level: All Levels Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends This is a fun way to keep track of which scales your students have learned. You can use it for 5-finger scales, or major and minor scales. Cut out and laminate one fish for each student and put it on a bulletin board. Write in inside the "fish scale.... (More) |
 | (SP608) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a quick game to play with beginning students who are learning the names of the piano keys. It it is a lot of fun with students of all ages. It is the same game as the Shamrock Keyboard Race, but with an Autumn theme. One card has pumpkins, and the other autumn leaves. The teacher a.... (More) |
 | (SP609) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Sub-type2: Seasonal When I made my first Keyboard Race game, I really had no idea that it was going to be the first in a series of games for every season. I ... (More) |
 | (SP610) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal If you did not play the Shamrock Keyboard Race game last year, you can try it during the winter months with a snowflake graphic. Print 2 pages of the cards and cut them out. Give one set to the student and the other set to the teacher..... (More) |
 | (SP611) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids Please see my blog for different ways to use this paper keyboard. Print in landscape format, laminate, cut on the lines, trim next to the next to the second group of three, and tape together with clear mailing tape. Place the first group of three on the left. ... (More) |
 | (SP612) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard There are several ways to use these cards. - You can use them to play Swat the Fly like the Fly Flash Cards I posted earlier. Place the cards on a table, call out a letter, and the student swats it as quickly as possible.
- You can play hide and seek with the cards, hiding the ca ... (More)
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 | (SP614) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Piano Keyboard This is a worksheet to help beginning students learn the keys on the piano. Students draw a line from the keyboard to the correct alphabet letter name. I originally made this for an iPad or other mobile device. Click here if you want directions on how to get it o ... (More) |
 | (SP634) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Christmas timed note game to review 7 notes of your choice on the grand staff. Please see my blog post for complete directions and objectives. You can use your own flash cards for this game. .... (More) |
 | (SP636) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Christmas timed interval game to review intervals from 2nds to octaves. Please see my blog post for complete directions and objectives. The cards for this game are available below or you can make your own. Th.... (More) |
 | (SP637) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal You can use the cards with the Christmas Snowmen and Interval Game. These rhythm flash cards include quarter, half, dotted half, and beamed eighth notes. There are also half, whole, and quarter rests. Please see my blog ... (More) |
 | (SP638) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Christmas timed rhythm game to review note values in 4/4 meter. Please see my blog post for complete directions and objectives. The cards for this game are available below or you can make your own. This game .... (More) |
 | (SP639) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal You can use the cards with the Christmas Snowmen and Rhythm Game. These rhythm flash cards include quarter, half, dotted half, and beamed eighth notes. There are also half, whole, and quarter rests. Please see my blog .... (More) |
 | (SP645) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Christmas bingo game to review all the notes on the grand staff. There are 2 game boards on each page, enough different cards for 8 players. It can also be played with teacher and student..... (More) |
 | (SP646) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal These cards can be used as "calling cards" for the Christmas Note Bingo game. You can also use them for other Christmas and winter themed games. See my blog for suggestions. An "H ... (More) |
 | (SP650) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Scales I made a music bingo game that is easier than some of the ones you can buy. This game is appropriate for students in Level One of their method book. The shortest note value is an eighth note. I also made a wild card that the students love..... (More) |
 | (SP651) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols This music bingo game only has 8 squares, so it is quick for young students with short attention spans. It includes only words and symbols from the Primer level of most method books. Students can play one or more cards at a time, depending on their age. I.... (More) |
 | (SP652) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Sub-type2: Seasonal Musical Christmas Lights is a simple bingo type game to identify note values with a few other symbols, too. Students can win by covering three of the same color or they can play "black out", depending on how much time you have..... (More) |
 | (SP653) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Sub-type2: Seasonal Newly Updated! Sometimes I use these game pieces when I play this game. You can print out as many as you need, but you can also play the game without them. ... (More) |
 | (SP654) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is the first in a set of Memory Games to teach music theory vocabulary words. This set uses the words in Level 1 of the TMTA Student Affiliate theory test. There are 2 pages to this PDF. The second page is the back to the first page, so use your printer.... (More) |
 | (SP655) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is the second in a series of memory games to teach vocabulary words and musical symbols. Included are the dotted half note, sharp, flat, piano, forte, 2nd, 3rd, and half step. There are two pages, and the second page is the graphic for the back of the cards. ... (More) |
 | (SP656) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is the third level of a musical symbol and vocabulary memory game. Students try to match the words and symbols with the difination. This game correlates with level 3 of the Texas State Theory Test, but is suitable for all elementary piano students. The PDF is two pages, and includes a back f.... (More) |
 | (SP657) Level: Elementary Type: Games This is level 4 of a series of memory games I made to learn music symbols and vocabulary words. There are two pages to print, front and back. The second page is the optional backs of the cards. Students turn over two cards and if the definition matches the word, the student keeps the cards.... (More) |
 | (SP658) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is the 5th level of a memory type game for music vocabulary words. Levels 1-4 are found above. Print the first page on sturdy card stock, being careful to set your printer to print page one only. After printing the first page, re-insert the page.... (More) |
 | (SP659) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is the second part to the 5th level of a memory type game for music vocabulary words. Levels 1-4 and 5A are found above. (You can mix and match these cards to create a game just for your own students.) Print the first page on sturdy card stock, being careful to set your printer to.... (More) |
 | (SP675) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a fast, easy game for Thanksgiving. It can be played with student and teacher or modified for groups. Students try to "save the turkey.... (More) |
 | (SP676) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a slightly more advanced gamed than posted above. Please check out my blog for the simple directions. Concepts in this set include tie, slur, accidentals, half step, intervals of a 4th and 5th, and a few more notes in middle C position. ... (More) |
 | (SP677) Level: Intermediate Sub-type: Key Signatures Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the last set to the very fast game, Save the Turkey. This game is for student and teacher, but you can modify it for groups. Please check out my blog for directions. This set includes a few symbols, some ledger line notes, and all the sharp and flat key signatures. My students enjo.... (More) |
 | (SP680) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Play this game to review music vocabulary and symbols at various levels, intervals, and some key signatures. There are 7 pages in the printable, but the 7th page is an optional back to the cards. Print only the cards you need. You can also play this game using your own music flash cards to review no ... (More) |
 | (SP695) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading If you're looking for a quick game to learn music intervals, try this colorful bingo game. This is a 6 page PDF with 4 different bingo cards and 2 pages of teacher calling cards. Print in landscape orientation. This bingo game can be played as "black out.... (More) |
 | (SP698) Level: Early Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Flash Cards These flash cards are designed to help students learn to sight read patterns. Students do not need to know the names of notes to use these cards. They place the designated finger on any key on the piano and then use the correct finger to step, skip, or repeat. Included in this file is a very detaile ... (More) |
 | (SP700) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Steps and Skips are such an important part of learning to read music that I made a category for them. This game can be played in many ways, with one student or a group. The simple way to play with one student is to hold up a card and the student moves a step or skip on the board. The objective of.... (More) |
 | (SP701) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading You don.... (More) |
 | (SP702) Level: Early Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids If a student gets a good foundation in steps and skips, a lot of reading problems in the future can be avoided. Use these cards with young children or any student who needs help. ... (More) |
 | (SP703) Level: Early Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids If you want your students to be good sight readers, teach them by steps and skips. If students have no trouble with the 2 line step and skip cards, try these 5 line cards. Teachers who are concerned about students learning in all positions will find a use for these cards. Set your printer on land.... (More) |
 | (SP704) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a set of bass clef cards that step, skip, and a few that repeat. You can use them with the Step Skipping Game above, or make up a new game with them. ... (More) |
 | (SP725) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Rhythm This is a set of 3 rhythm worksheet that correlate with the first 3 levels of the Texas Music Teachers Association (TMTA) theory test. Each printable increases slightly in difficulty. Level 3 of this set includes quarter notes and rests, half notes and rests, dotted half notes, and whole notes an.... (More) |
 | (SP726) Level: Late Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Rhythm This is a set of 3 rhythm worksheet that correlate with levels 4-6 of the Texas Music Teachers Association (TMTA) theory test, which is an exam with 12 levels..... (More) |
 | (SP740) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Halloween game to reinforce counting. The object is to match the 'bat.... (More) |
 | (SP745) Level: Elementary Type: Games For those of you in the UK, here are your rhythm terms such as crotchet, semibreve, and minim. ... (More) |
 | (SP746) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Do you have a student who forgets the rhythm names of simple notes and rests? Sometimes students know how many beats a note receives, but can.... (More) |
 | (SP747) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm These cards are for the game Rhythm Round About. They are made to be printed on 2 X 3 1/2" ... (More) |
 | (SP748) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm My students love to have a colorful back for the cards I print out for games. Print this on the back of.... (More) |
 | (SP749) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Rhythm Students can cut out these blocks and manipulate them to understand the relationship of note values. ... (More) |
 | (SP750) Level: Late Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Rhythm Some students just don't get note values the first time. When you help your students fill out this chart, they will see the relationship between the note values..... (More) |
 | (SP751) Level: Various levels Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Rhythm I made this one year in an attempt to explain sixteenth notes. I had tried everything else in my book of tricks, and this was just another way of looking at it. ... (More) |
 | (SP752) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm This game is about as simple as it gets. I made it for beginners who are just learning the value of notes in 4/4 time. If they draw a whole note they move 4 places, dotted half note, 3 places, and so on. You can play with one student and it makes learning the notes more fun. As with all my games, yo ... (More) |
 | (SP753) Level: Pre-Reading Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm You can use your own cards or print these. The little happy faces are game tokens, in case you have a need for them. ... (More) |
 | (SP754) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Having trouble explaining 8th notes to a student who hasn ... (More) |
 | (SP755) Level: Early Elementary-Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Rhythm One way to teach 2 sounds on a beat and beginning rhythm dictation. Go to my blog for instructions. ... (More) |
 | (SP756) Level: Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Rhythm This is the companion worksheet to Rhythm Hearts, when students are ready for 2 measure dictation. Go to my blog is you want to know how to use hearts to teach eighth notes. ... (More) |
 | (SP757) Level: Late Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Rhythm This is a little checkup to see if ... (More) |
 | (SP758) Level: Early Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Rhythm ... (More) |
 | (SP759) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Rhythm This is like my worksheet 750, except the smallest note value is an 8th note instead of a 16th. I suggest you use this with your students at their lesson, guiding them as they draw the notes. Use the Rhythm Pizza first, so they know what ... (More) |
 | (SP760) Level: Late Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Rhythm This is like the one I made with 16th notes that you can use with Level 2 students. ... (More) |
 | (SP761) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm These are the cards you can use for a beginning rhythm activity by Cecilly called Quarter Note Hunt. Go to my blog for the directions for this activity and a photo of the cards ready to be used. ... (More) |
 | (SP762) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm This is a game from Cecilly. You can get the full instructions to the game here. ... (More) |
 | (SP763) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm These cards go with the game above so you can add 6/8 meter to the game. ... (More) |
 | (SP765) Level: Late Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Rhythm If you want a funny poster to explain dotted notes, you are in the right place! ... (More) |
 | (SP766) Level: Early Intermediate/Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm This is a game for older students who need some reinforcement on dotted eighth notes and sixteenth notes. To get instruction for this game and see pictures of students playing the game,.... (More) |
 | (SP768) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm I had some beginners who wanted to play the flash card fishing game, so I made these cards. To help students to focus, I tried to make the colors more basic. For older students, we see how many they can catch and identify in a certain amount of time. ... (More) |
 | (SP770) Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm You can make a game out of these cards and the fish rhythm cards posted above. All a student has to do is match the rhythm note cards with the number value on these cards. Students can fish them out, or you can use them as matching cards. ... (More) |
 | (SP771) Level: Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal These are cards you can cut up and use for mystery tunes or mystery rhythms and use in group lessons. You can print out a sheet to list the tunes you are going to use below. ... (More) |
 | (SP772) Level: Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal Use this sheet if you want to make a list of the tunes you will be using for the Christmas Tune Challenge. ... (More) |
 | (SP773) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is a group lesson game. Students pick one card with a silly sentence and one card with a music vacabulary word. ... (More) |
 | (SP774) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is a group lesson game where students read a silly sentence using the musical vocabulary expression cards above. Print and cut out the cards and let the students draw a sentence card and then an expression card to read to the group. The first person to guess gets to be the next reader.... (More) |
 | (SP775) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm This is a memory game for students who have learned the basic notes and rests. .... (More) |
 | (SP776) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm If you want to make the Rhythm Memory Match Game more interesting, print this on the back. You might want to print a test copy to make sure the front and back line up, because that can be a little tricky. ... (More) |
 | (SP777) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm This is an activity where students hold up a small sign after listening to a piece (Olympic style) to indicate if the meter moves in 3 or 4. There are two pages to print out. One page has 3's and the other 4.... (More) |
 | (SP778) Level: Early Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Rhythm This is a rhythmworksheet for beginning pre-school students to practice drawing quarter, half, and whole notes..... (More) |
 | (SP779) Level: Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is the same game posted above for Christmas, but it is black and white so it can be played anytime. There are two pages, one with the vocabulary words and the other with the "silly sentences ... (More) |
 | (SP780) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal This Easter activity is so much fun for students. Hide these eggs with rhythms on the back around the room. When the student finds them, he taps or claps out the rhythm. Eighth, quarter and half notes are used. Be sure and set your PDF document to print just the first page before you inser.... (More) |
 | (SP781) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal This game is like Quarter Note Hunt, but for the Easter season. Print and cut out the cards. Fold each card in the middle so that the egg is on one side and the note on the other, like a tent..... (More) |
 | (SP801) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Revised! Young beginners often don.... (More) |
 | (SP802) Level: Pre-Reading Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard This is another way for beginners to learn the keyboard. After printing it, cut it out into puzzle pieces and let them see how fast they can put it back together. It's a good activity to use at the first lesson, because with the bright colors they can ... (More) |
 | (SP804) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Theory Aids This chart shows your students how the the Major keys are organized. It also has a sentence that students can use to memorized the key signatures. If you want a minor chart, use the one I posted above. ... (More) |
 | (SP805) Level: Late Elementary Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Key Signature Students can use this colorful chart to fill in major key signatures. If you would like them to fill in major and minor keys, use this black and white key signature chart which is posted near the top of the page. ... (More) |
 | (SP806) Level: Intermediate Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Key Signature This is a large staff with the order of sharps written in a easy to follow way. If you have a student who needs to learn how to do this for an exam, this will help them learn the correct placement. ... (More) |
 | (SP807) Level: Intermediate Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Key Signature This is the companion worksheet to Simple Sharps. ... (More) |
 | (SP809) Level: Late Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Flash Cards These flash cards are the size of playing cards. There are four pages of cards and include all the ledger line notes from low C to high C. If you want an easy set for beginners, print the first page only. ... (More) |
 | (SP810) Level: All Levels Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Flash Cards If you can print on the back of your playing card size flash cards, you might find this helps students and parents. Bear in mind that if you print your flash cards on regular paper, this will show through. ... (More) |
 | (SP811) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a three page set of grand staff flash cards to use with games where students identify notes with by swatting them with a fly swatter. Students love this! Go to my blog to find ideas on how to use these cards! ... (More) |
 | (SP812) Level: Intermediate Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Key Signature This is a large staff with all the sharp key signaures displayed with instructions to go down a 4th, up a 5th when writing them. There is a small staff for students to practice. Use this with the Simple Sharps worksheet. Be sure to set the printer for landscape printing. ... (More) |
 | (SP813) Level: Intermediate Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Key Signature This is the companion sheet to the one posted above to help students learn how to write the flat key signatures. Be sure and set your printer to landscape. ... (More) |
 | (SP814) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading These are larger than my other fly flash cards so they are more helpful for younger students. Give your young student a fly swatter and call out note names for him to swat. Or let him call out note names as he ... (More) |
 | (SP816) Level: Late Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Flash Cards These mini flash cards are 2" x 2 1/2 ... (More) |
 | (SP817) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Flash Cards This is a set of mini sized flash cards featuring notes beyond the top and bottom lines of the grand staff. These cards have room under the staff for the thumb to hold the cards when working for speed playing the notes at the piano. For the mini cards on the grand staff, print SP816. ... (More) |
 | (SP840) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading These flash cards contain words made with the letters in the music alphabet. Use a large staff board or a paper keyboard to write out the words. Check out my blog for an activity from Cecilly using these cards. ... (More) |
 | (SP845) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Key Signatures This board game reinforces the key signatures of C, G, D, A, E, F, B flat, E flat, and A flat. It is fun and colorful, and students love it. See my blog for directions. ... (More) |
 | (SP846) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Key Signatures You can print as many of the cards as you need for flash cards or card games. This page is in black and white. If you want some color, be sure and print the backs, which are posted below this. Set your printer to landscape. ... (More) |
 | (SP847) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Key Signatures This can be printed on the back of the Key Signature Cards above. The name of the keys are not on the cards so they can be use for games. To make it line up properly for printing on the back of the Key Signature Cards, set your PDF printer page scaling to "none" and your printer to ... (More) |
 | (SP848) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Key Signatures Print this is you want the answers on the back of the Key Sin gature Cards so you can use them like flash cards. A set is published ... (More) |
 | (SP849) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Worksheets Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal The NoteBoys are back with a worksheet to circle music vocabulary words. The other words on the page are Christmas words from around the world. ... (More) |
 | (SP850) Level: Teacher Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends This is a notice to send to parents if they forget their monthly tuition. I like to print it out on brightly colored paper. It seems friendlier that way. It is printed in landscape format with 2 per page. ... (More) |
 | (SP851) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends See my blog for suggested uses of these. Set your printer to landscape and be sure and laminate them if you use an ink-jet printer. ... (More) |
 | (SP852) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Staff Paper This is the staff paper I used for the upper elementary grades when ... (More) |
 | (SP853) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends Here is a set of 4 holiday season bookmarks. Be sure to set your printer to landscape and laminate these so the ink won ... (More) |
 | (SP854) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Staff Paper This sheet has 2 large staves that you can use as a grand staff for young children. ... (More) |
 | (SP855) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends Please check my Blog for instructions on how to use these.
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 | (SP857) Level: Late Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends These keyboard labels are long enough to write full scales. Print them on 1" X 2 5/8 "address labels so you can peel them off and use in your students.... (More) |
 | (SP858) Level: Varies Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends These labels can be used in student assignment books to practice writing scales or intervals. The staves are small, so these are best used with students old enough to read small note heads. These were made to be printed on Avery Label #8160, The ;abels are 1" by 2 5/8.... (More) |
 | (SP859) Level: Early Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends These bookmarks might be fun to use at a summer piano camp. Be sure and set your printer to landscape. ... (More) |
 | (SP860) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends You can use this certificate in a studio technique program you design yourself. As students progress, you can award them a certificate for each level. Check out my blog if you want more information. ... (More) |
 | (SP861) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends I made this to.... (More) |
 | (SP862) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Music Reading I created this graphic to help my young students learn how to spot practice. This graphic makes it fun to repeat a small section. The student puts his pawn on the first black tar pit and plays a very short section, such as a measure, of a difficult spot..... (More) |
 | (SP863) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Music Reading If your boys loved the Tar Pits practice game, your young girls will fall in love with Over the Rainbow,.... (More) |
 | (SP864) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends This is a certificate to pass out at your recital. It is made in a colorful, casual style. Be sure to set your printer to landscape mode. ... (More) |
 | (SP865) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends Here is the companion certificate to the casual certificate posted above. I made this in black and white so that you can print it on formal looking parchment paper, found in office supply stores. Set your printer to landscape, and use your color setting for best results. ... (More) |
 | (SP866) Level: Early Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends Here is a really cute certificate to celebrate with your early elementary students when they learn a complete a set of 5-finger scales. However, since it is blank, you can use it for anything you wish! If you want a technique certificate for older students, look .... (More) |
 | (SP867) Level: Late Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends I made a certificate to hand out for students who can say and play their notes in less than a minute. Read about the certificate here on my blog if you are interested in starting it. ... (More) |
 | (SP870) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids This is a cover for a see-through presentation binders. You can add your student's name at the top, or use it like it is. This is great for teachers who use binders for their student ... (More) |
 | (SP871) Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends This is an academic year calendar for 2012-2013. ... (More) |
 | (SP872) Level: Late Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Music Reading Record how long it takes your students to "say" and "play ... (More) |
 | (SP873) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends If your students can play and name notes in one minute or less, you can give them this card. Inside the yellow star-burst put the number of years they have been a member. These cards are made for elementary age children. However, I.... (More) |
 | (SP875) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends Make your own assignment book with this page. It contains items you have never seen in an assignment book before including the Circle of 5ths, a keyboard, and a metronome tab for scales. There is also a staff at the bottom for students to write scales or practice drawing notes. To help students orga ... (More) |
 | (SP877) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends This cover can be used to slip in the outside of a binder that is used for either an assignment book or to hold worksheets and music. ... (More) |
 | (SP885) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends Students can record the days they practice on this colorful practice chart. ... (More) |
 | (SP886) Level: Elementary Sub-type: Odds and Ends Students can keep a record on this fun practice chart! ... (More) |
 | (SP898) Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends If you ever get your music books mixed up with your students' books, try this printable music bookplate to label your personal books or books you loan out. Print on large shipping labels, 6 to a page, such as Avery brand label #8164. Be sure to set the page size option to "fit.... (More) |
 | (SP900) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Staff Paper This is manuscript paper for students. There are 8 blank staves with a little extra room on the right side so it can be put in a binder and room at the top for a title. ... (More) |
 | (SP901) Level: Intermediate Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Staff Paper This paper is standard size staff paper for the older student. ... (More) |
 | (SP950) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Rhythm The NoteBoys are back. This time they want to help your students understand that a whole rest means to rest for the entire measure, regardless of the time signature. Your students will enjoy the humor and it will help them remember! ... (More) |
 | (copyofSP855) Level: Elementary Type: Teaching Aids Sub-type: Odds and Ends Please check my Blog for instructions on how to use these.
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