![]() These piano puzzle cards are one of my most popular resources. Get ideas for games and see what my floor staff looks like here. Plus the kids love it, especially at group lessons. Setting up a floor staff is a wonderful way to get inside the grand staff. The Thinking Theory video for the landmark notes will be out this Thursday – subscribe to the newsletter (on the right) to make sure you don’t miss that and all the other music theory videos coming soon. Piano Anne made this really fun series a while back using animation to explain the clefs and landmark notes. There are some videos out there that explore the grand staff and note identification. If you don’t have one already just pick up a mini one at a dollar store and start quizzing and exploring at a mile a minute. The whiteboard can open up so many possibilities for exploring the grand staff. Review the difference between lines and spaces using this free worksheet here or using the Thinking Theory Prep Book and Thinking Theory Prep Book Plus. You might be surprised by what your student is NOT seeing the way you think they are. I learned using mnemonics myself – and I think I turned out OK. But if your student isn’t catching on using other methods, it might be worth a try.Īfter all, ultimately we want instant recognition anyway so sometimes needs must. We’re all moving away from mnemonics these days. I’ll actually be releasing a new free Thinking Theory video for the landmark notes this Thursday – subscribe to the newsletter (on the right) to make sure you don’t miss that. Review the landmark notes using the free Landmark Xs and Os game here. If your student started out using a different note reading method, introduce her to the landmark notes and help her find her way around using them. ![]() Change their outlook to flip the switch on their grand staff confusion. There are many different angles to view the staff from and your weak note reader is probably seeing it from a funny direction. For students who are having a hard time with the grand staff, I would also be supplementing with the T hinking Theory Plus books for extra review. My own Thinking Theory workbooks take the landmark approach to note names. This step is included in several of the practice step stickers that you can find here. Note Naming BlitzĪ cheeky, fun name for asking your student to name every single note before she plays her piece. Let me know your favourite note naming apps in the comments, I’m always looking for new ones to try. There are so many iPad apps out there now that it can be hard to choose which ones to recommend to my students. Get all the info on how I do this and the free printables for the 60 second challenge here. Students name the notes as fast as they can to gain bronze, silver or gold levels. The 60 Second Challenge is a favourite in my piano studio. Blanket them in note names with these gameified note reading strategies. When you need to push your students over the note name hill, what you want is grand staff immersion. (And if the first one doesn’t work…come back and give one of the other twelve a try.) Note Reading Immersion Help your students recover from grand staff bafflement with these note name teaching ideas. Or you may have long term students of yours who are still getting that deer in the headlights look when it comes to note names and reading. You may have received transfer students who were taught using questionable methods. Chances are there at least a couple of students in your music studio right now who are desperately in need of some new note reading strategies.
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