Keyboard Pentascale Sheets

I had a request to make the Keyboard Pentascale Cards into a reference page for young pianists.  Here is the result – All of the major pentascales on 2 pages.  Susan Paradis also has a wonderful version of the pentascales here.  Keyboard Pentascale Sheets

Fun Game Ideas

Megan, a piano pedagogy master’s student at Wichita State University, shared some fantastic games. I am excited to try these with my students. Review Cube: I made a giant dice by wrapping a styrofoam cube in paper. For each class I teach, I make 6 cards with the concepts we worked on in that class [...]

Technique Achievement Poster

My good friend Claire showed me a wonderful technique chart she had made for her studio.  I liked the idea so much I made a poster for my own studio.  I LOVE it!  When a student masters a scale, they earn a foil star in the corresponding box.  Different colors of stars represent various levels.  [...]

Musical Alphabet Blocks

Have you seen Natalie’s great post about making scale blocks? Well, we must be thinking along a similar wavelength. I love my scale blocks, but wanted to have more to use in group classes. Unfortunately, the budget wouldn’t allow it. Then I thought back to elementary school and those cool 3-D shapes we used to [...]

Musical Alphabet Flashcards

Nothing fancy with these! Just cards with the musical alphabet on them. I also included cards with the sharps and flats as well. Great for learning the musical alphabet forwards, backwards, and skipping up and down. Also use them for scales, chords, and anything else you can come up with! Musical Alphabet Cards     [...]

Keyboard Pentascale and Triad Cards

These are the result of some serious procrastinating on my part. I really need to finish a pile of stuff before a soon-to-come deadline, so I did these instead. The triads and pentascales are shown on keyboards. These can be used for simple identification, or print 2 copies for matching games. I made small cards [...]

Treble and Bass Cards

I use these for all sorts of things. I will use bingo chips, and have students place them on landmarks, various notes, build triads, intervals, scales, or whatever else I can think of. They are great fun, especially when Hershey Kisses are used instead of bingo chips. Yummy! Treble and Bass Cards       [...]