It’s here… the second book in our smash-hit series WunderKeys Intermediate Pop Studies For Piano. Book 2 is jam-packed with pop-infused piano studies. Get ready for a cool workout in the keys of D Major, B Minor, Bb Major, G Minor, A Major and F# Minor as your students turn technical exercises into powerful pop […]
How to teach voice lessons, when you are a beginning teacher? Get some tips to quell your fears at this new venture!
We all know how important it is to keep new piano students engaged and motivated. So how do you keep lessons fun and rewarding for beginners? Experienced teachers know that moving forward at the ri…
This is an easy piano solo arrangement for beginners of the melody Old MacDonald Had a Farm in PNG format. You will also find this free piano sheet music score in printable high quality PDF format at my site Capotasto Music
Piano notes for kids easy song "The Music Alphabet" helps beginners relate note reading to the piano keyboard. The notes match the song lyrics!
Introducing the note family! first piano lessons to teach children musical note values in a fun and easy way, a perfect introduction to music theory.
Hello! This is Tanya LeJeune. I hope everyone is keeping warm. It’s cold here in Colorado! For my first blog post here at Kodály Corner I’m going to focus on what I refer to as opening songs. Before they walk into the music room, most students have been sitting in the classroom at their desk and working independently. In music they have to work musically as a group and independently. Students need to change gears. Opening songs set the stage for music and provide a warm-up for the voice and the brain. Additionally, the structure and predictability that an opening song provides is helpful in keeping students focused for the class time. The song we sing may or may not be connected to the specific concepts that grade level is working on. An opening song is not the focus of the lesson and should not take up more than a few minutes. Most of the opening songs I use are also canons and give us the opportunity to practice part work. I keep my opening songs for 1 – 2 months. As students become more confident singing their opening song we add complexity with canons, ostinati, and instruments. Here are a few opening songs I’m using this month. 4th Grade I Love the Mountains The 4th graders are preparing for their Colorado concert and this familiar song will be included. For concerts and performances I like to have an audience participation piece to end the performance. Sometimes the audience participation piece is a simple line dance audience members can do from their seats, (last year the students taught their families the South African dance Pata Pata,) and sometimes I choose a well known song. This might be the audience participation song for the Colorado concert. (or I may use This Land is Your Land, I’m still deciding.) I Love the Mountains is a good song to inspire the students to create accompanying movements. We'll sing and move in canon for the concert, possibly adding the audience as a 4th part. 3rd Grade To Stop the Train Here’s a fun and melodically challenging song to sing. I'm preparing low sol in 3rd grade and later we'll extract the last two note, "five pounds!" (We won't be decoding the rest of the melody!) The movements are as follows: To stop: hands out in “stop” position The train: slide hands together in a circular motion In cases of emergency: hands up “flashing lights”moving fingers out and in on the beat Pull on the chain: both hands up and pull down Penalty for improper use: waggfinger Five pounds: show 5 fingers on “five” and then flatten hand down as if to receive payment This song also provides great audition (inner hearing) practice. I'll have students audiate and perform the motions of sections until they are inner-hearing the entire song. 2nd Grade Are You Sleeping? The 2nd graders are practicing half note. Are You Sleeping is a perfect opening song for them. They sing the lyrics and then sing the rhythm syllables. I hand out hand chimes to four students to add the “ding, ding, dongs,” at the end of the song, (we sing it in F major with the hand chimes playing F C, F F C, F.) During the next class period we’ll turn the “ding, ding, dongs” into an ostinato with half of the class singing with the hand chimes. I have a ostinato song that is sung to the tune of Are You Sleeping that I’ll use as well. (It’s one of those songs I’ve known forever and I have no idea where I first heard it, definitely BK!) Soon they'll learn the Are You Sleeping? lyrics in french and we'll create a class arrangement using ABA form. 1st Grade The 1st graders love moving and grooving to That's a Mighty Pretty Motion! Due to the cold and snow, it's looking like we'll have an "inside recess" day everyday this week. You can bet we'll be very active in the music room! Stay warm and continue singing, playing, and learning!
Keyboard music notes for beginning piano music readers: Pizza Please (formerly known as "Hot Cross Buns"!)
The other day, Jacob was jamming away on his toy piano singing ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ – eyes closed, head bopping, slamming random keys on the key board… I loved the…
I Wonder Where Maria's Gone is an easy folk dance for the elementary music classroom, with free digital visuals for students to follow along.
These DIY music painted rocks are great for teaching kids about music theory
Sheet Music Search Acka Backa Easy Amazing Grace (Large Note) Easy America the Beautiful Hard Angels we Have Heard on High Medium Apples and Bananas Easy Are Yo
Group piano lessons involve a sense of sharing, cooperation, and community. This month, find out how to get started with group teaching.
I firmly believe that every child can learn to play piano. My goal is to make it true for all of my students. Being trained in Russian School of Music I use proven methodology and effective techni…
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See the Scarecrow It’s time for my yearly Halloween post, where I post a new a Halloween song as well as remind new readers of my old Halloween material. I wrote See the Scarecrow last year for a beginning student who was just starting to read on the staff. The only thing that might be …
There are so many different places you can start from when creating a Curriculum Outline. A curriculum outline is a broad overview of your entire program, across all grade levels. It’s a zoomed out picture of what concepts you want to cover, and what grades will cover them. I’ve written about a c
Green Grass Grows All Around
E is for Elephant is a set of songs for young beginners to introduce the names of seven notes around middle C.
New Release! Color Me Mozart Songbook with Free Keyboard Stickers Over 30 classic children’s songs! Sheet of Free Stickers included for your piano or keyboard! Easy to read colorful notes ...
As the parent of a budding musician, you know that it’s not always easy getting your child to sit down and practice week after week. Nonetheless, regular practice is essential to your child’s musical development.
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Jam-packed with age-appropriate piano pieces, off-the-bench activities, and game-based learning, WunderKeys Primer Book Three reinforces note reading, rhythmic awareness, and hands-together coordination in an environment carefully crafted to meet the physical capabilities of young piano students. The book’s engaging illustrations, hilarious dialogue, and step-by-step scaffolding approach combine to create the resource that piano teachers, piano […]
Do You Know The Muffin Man, The Muffin Man... Here is everything about this nursery rhyme: Sheet Music, Chords, Video and Lyrics.
Oh Mister Sun Sheet Music With Chords And Lyrics: "Oh Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun. Please shine down on me. Oh Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr....
