Students will be encouraged to discern between duple vs. triple meters and major vs. minor tonalities, learn to harmonize using chords, play in a variety of keys, use several accompaniment patterns, and more.
The format encourages the development of audiation, improvisation, and creativity skills by presenting multi-level steps/variations on playing each tune. Each song includes its own checklist so students can use and build on these sheets year after year as their skills progress.
This 34-page DIGITAL download includes:
(1) How to Use This Book – Explanations include details from this post along with a few more in-depth details.
(2) 8 Pieces – Two pages per piece as described above.
(3) Notation Appendix – Lead-sheet style notation of each piece intended as a reference for teachers who are more comfortable notation handy.
(4) BONUS Step-by-Step Teaching Tips – A few more step-by-step teaching tips to help walk you through the process.
*NOTE: This book is a 34-page DIGITAL DOWNLOAD sold only as a studio license which means teachers can purchase one copy and print it for as many of their students as needed. (It is not sold as a hard-copy book.)
A sequenced set of custom links to use with the Note Rush app.
This product was a result of wanting to give all my students well-sequenced, note-naming assignments to do at home each week that focused on small groups of notes at a time with lots of repetitions.
Rather than creating these assignments manually for every student every week, I sat down and designed an entire well-sequenced set all at once.
Teachers will find it especially useful when using it in conjunction with any kind of online assignment tools such as email, Google Docs, or Tonara.
3 student pages: Melody (previewed above), Harmony, and Get Creative
A create variations tracker: A checklist for students to keep track of different creative combinations they’ve used (such as waltz bass, what keys they’ve transposed to, creating an introduction/ending, etc.)
3 teacher pages: Suggested teaching tips for approaching each area including a “bonus” page with some extra MLT-inspired activities if you would like to take the audiation-based instruction a little further.
2 notated pages: One with the melody only and one that includes chord root harmony. These are included as a reference for your convenience, but I would strongly encourage teachers to consider not giving students the notation.
Thank you for your weekly Friday Finds. They are so fun to read! Thank you also for creating cool Music Labs and your Happy Birthday product. I think I’ve just purchased all your lab products that I didn’t have!
Please continue to create these really neat products to help us as teachers be effective with our students. I currently have lab time for 2nd-6th graders and your products work well for them.
-Cheryl Leigh Stringfield
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My students have really enjoyed listening to the Halloween Lab videos. They were really wowed by the glass harp and the Harry Potter theme piece!!! It was fun to hear the reactions of a 7-year-old boy watching the Harry Potter theme yesterday. He normally gets fidgety watching a video but he absolutely loved it!!! Thank you for choosing a video with a male pianist, too. I’m hoping he’s inspired for years to come.
-Cheryl Leigh Stringfield
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This fun holiday-themed listening activity introduces students to “spooky” classical music and accompanies the (free) Halloween Videos series published here on Piano Pantry.
A 4-page guide with 13 videos and over 60 minutes of listening!
My students have really enjoyed listening to the Halloween Lab videos. They were really wowed by the glass harp and the Harry Potter theme piece!!! It was fun to hear the reactions of a 7-year-old boy watching the Harry Potter theme yesterday. He normally gets fidgety watching a video but he absolutely loved it!!! Thank you for choosing a video with a male pianist, too. I’m hoping he’s inspired for years to come.
-Cheryl Leigh Stringfield
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Inspire your students with this series of 60 videos organized into eight “theme” sets such as classical music fun, musical humor, and music history mashups.
Five pages long, this lab guide accompanies the (free) Fun Music Videos series published here on Piano Pantry.
Are you looking for a great tool for reinforcing all the information students take in during the short time they have with you? Music theory videos are a fun way to do this!
Two pages long, this lab guide accompanies the (free) Music Theory Videos series published here on Piano Pantry.
A compilation of 48 of the best music-theory videos I’ve found online, the video series has been divided into four leveled sets based on a rough/general order in which concepts are introduced in most piano methods.
Waay is an app available on iOS that teaches music theory via four courses:
1. Melodies (free)
2. Chords ($4.99)
3. [Chord] Progressions I ($4.99)
4. [Chord] Progressions II ($4.99)
Each course is comprised of videos and interactive practice exercises.
If you use this app as part of an in-studio music lab assignment, this sheet allows students to track their individual progress in the app since they cannot “log in” to track individual progress.
This download is four pages – one page for each course.