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Everything a teacher needs for their beginning students to master naming the white keys of the piano. This approach teaches students to name keys all across the keyboard, avoiding only working in the Middle C area. With color coded images, drawing exercises and stories to illustrate this concept, students will utilize nearly all methods of learning and achieve quick mastery. This bundle includes two worksheets, two visual teaching aids and a set of game pieces for all seven letters of the musi

This duet is perfect for two beginning students to play as a duet, and it can even be used for group pieces with multiple pianos. This is for beginning level pianists who have learned how to place the RH in the middle c position (Fingers 1-5 on middle C - treble G) and who also have learned basic rhythm values including quarter note, eighth note, and half note. The primo and secondo parts share a system to help students synchronize rhythms. This duet can be taught by rote or by following the eas

Teach your students about the names of the white keys in a fun and stimulating way! The colors of the images and the stories of the pictures for each note give students multiple ways to internalize this concept and allows them to name all of the notes on the piano quickly and fluently. The first two pages are visual aids to use while teaching about the houses on the keyboard and the animals and people that live in the Big House and the Animal House. It introduces the rooftops that go above the

This is a handy key to help students easily locate chords. Thinking through the half step/whole step pattern for chords or any of the other methods students are taught to find chords can become taxing. This is a helpful reward for my students who are enjoying playing chords or lead sheets but not yet automatic with chord recognition. This chord key includes the basic chord qualities of major, minor, diminished, augmented and dominant seventh. The first page is organized according to the circle o

Help beginning students master the letter names of the white keys on the piano. This worksheet teaches students to see the groups of three black keys, and to be able to identify the FGAB keys underneath. Students write the letter names in for multiple octaves of the keys. They also get to have fun drawing rooftops and reading about who lives in the big house! Watermark only on preview, removed in purchased product.

Teach your students about the genre of 'Lieder'. And help them expand their listening skills with an assignment that breaks down the lieder Erlkonig (The Elf King) by Franz Schubert. The assignment is linked to a recording of the lieder with an accompanying animation to help with the analysis. This helps students recognize how music can use many textures to create a full story. It also gives students an introduction to one of the largest genres of collaborative piano music.