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Have students notate all 12 major scales using the appropriate whole step and half step sequence. Includes a labeled piano keyboard graphic for step counting and all 12 major scales with treble clef staff below each for writing. Great music theory quiz or worksheet!

An organizer built to help students in the early stages of play writing. Great for assembly skits and drama classes!

Many of our students sing this song at the beginning of every school day but do they really know the words or what they mean? Use this graphic organizer to help students learn and appreciate our national anthem by drawing the events of the British attack on Baltimore in 1814. Directions: Draw a picture illustrating the events described in each of the 8 lines of the star spangled banner.

Use this form to write a song, story or even draw pictures consistent with the standard 12 bar blues form.

This packet allows students in groups of 3 or more to understand the structure and organization of modern song lyrics. Students are first asked to come up with a song title (main idea) Each of 3 students will be responsible for writing: 1. Verse 1 & 2 (Story) 2. Chorus 1 & 2 (Main Idea, Hook and Song Title) 3. Bridge & Outro (Story Development, Etc..) Students will then cut out their sections and arrange them in a logical order. Sections can be stapled or glued to paper, poster boards or bul

Music/Math Integration Assignment A definite administration pleaser, this graphic organizer was devised to have students listen, analyze, graph and compare dynamics, instrumentation, genre and more. Directions: Have students listen to each piece and graph the dynamic level at each time interval. A bar or line graph would be most appropriate Use a metronome or have students calculate bpm with a clock. Tip: Make sure students can see the track time or some sort of timer. Options: Project onto a

Help you jazz students play the right notes over any minor, dominant or major chord. Examples are in all keys and transposed for C, Bb and Eb instruments so that you can use this cart as and ensemble warmup of exercise! (Also includes C Bass Clef for trombones and base)

Music/Math Integration Assignment A definite administration pleaser, this graphic organizer was devised to have students listen, analyze, graph and compare dynamics, instrumentation, genre and more. Directions: Have students listen to each piece and graph the dynamic level at each time interval. A bar or line graph would be most appropriate Use a metronome or have students calculate bpm with a clock. Tip: Make sure students can see the track time or some sort of timer. Options: Project onto a

This brief quiz assesses student ability to identify and draw whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes on the staff!

A simple multiple choice quiz to assess student progress or review materials. Quiz Covers: Piano, Mezzo Forte, Pianissimo, Forte, Fortissimo, Mezzo Piano, p, pp, mp, mf, f, ff, crescendo and decrescendo.

Absolute beginner guitar students can use this movable 2 finger hand shape to compose a chord progression. By sliding the "power chord" shape to different frets along the E string, students can create up to 12 different chords. Each chord consists of Root, 5th and Octave Root. Lacking the 3rd, power chords can substitute any major, minor or 7th chord as long as the 5th is not augmented or diminished. This assignment requires no alternate tuning, or string removal. Suggestion: use stickers to

Music/Math Integration Assignment A definite administration pleaser, this graphic organizer was devised to have students listen, analyze, graph and compare dynamics, instrumentation, genre and more. Directions: Have students listen to each piece and graph the dynamic level at each time interval. Use a metronome or have students calculate bpm with a clock.

Page 1 includes a very large diagram displaying G diminished and G augmented as an example with arrows indicating the number of half steps between each note. Diminished: 3 and 3. Augmented 4 and 4. Great for the visual learner!! Page 2 includes all 12 randomly arranged diminished chords and all 12 randomly arranged augmented chords. (Written in bass clef) There is also a labeled piano keyboard at the top. This way students can identify the notes in each chord and use the keyboard to count t

This project is a ton of fun! Students will measure each boomwhacker, log the data on a color coded data chart and then use colored markers pencils or crayons to graph their results. These colorful assignments look great on a bulletin board or on the fridge at home. Enjoy!

Page 1 contains two large diagrams showing root position chords being inverted to either 1st inversion or second inversion. Great for visual learners! Can be blown up as a poster!! Page 2 contains root position chords. The first 12 must be converted and rewritten in first inversion. The last 12 need to be changed to 2nd inversion.

This is 16 measures of quarter notes places on the grad staff ranging from A1 up to E6. Notes begin easy within the treble clef, then into the bass clef. Eventually notes venture into ledger lines above and below in ascending and descending stepwise fashion. Finally, notes are arranged randomly in all registers.

Music/Math Integration Assignment A definite administration pleaser, this graphic organizer was devised to have students listen, analyze, graph and compare dynamics, instrumentation, genre and more. Directions: Have students listen to each piece and graph the dynamic level at each time interval. Use a metronome or have students calculate bpm with a clock.

A great worksheet preceding a harmonic analysis of any piece in C Major. Includes: -Note Names -Chord Symbols -Roman Numeral Analysis Suggestion: Have students label each note, determine the quality of each chord, label the chords on the lines above, determine the quality and scale degree of each chord as a roman numeral on the lines below.

Worksheet contains 24 small staves. Each stave has a half note already written with the name of an ascending or descending interval above. Have students write a second half note that is the appropriate ascending or descending interval from the first.

This is a selection of basic rhythms starting very simple and increasing in difficulty. Includes combinations of eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes, quarter rests and half rests. Possible uses: Rhythm Syllable Chanting (ta ta ti ti ta) Rhythm Count Writing (1 2 3 + 4) Ensemble Warmup Etcetera