In last week’s post, we announced the release of our newest Piano Student Workbook, Andrea And Trevor Dow’s Playing With Note Printing Activity Book For Piano, Book 1.
We are excited to let you know that it is now available here on Amazon.
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In today’s post, we wanted to do something a little different and share a video of Andrea digging a little deeper into our newest release. After the video, we have a preview of the book, as well as the video script.
Look Inside Playing With Note Printing
As mentioned earlier, Andrea And Trevor Dow’s Playing With Note Printing Activity Book For Piano, Book 1 is available today! You can preview 10 of its 73 pages below or check out the book on Amazon for an even longer preview (when viewing on a desktop or laptop). Click on the image below to have a look at what makes this note reading resource so wonderfully different!
The Note Printing Video Script:
Last week you probably read about our newest piano student workbook, Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Playing With Note Printing Activity Book For Piano, Book 1.
With it now being officially available on Amazon, today I wanted to dig a little deeper into why we created this book and why we created our new piano student workbook series.
So, let’s first begin with our Piano Student Workbook series.
In early June we released Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Timed Tests For Piano, Book 1. Now we’ve released Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Playing With Note Printing Activity Book For Piano, Book 1.
And in July, “Book 2” in each of these two series will also be released!
So, why did we create our piano student workbooks in the first place?
For two reasons:
- Because the single biggest stumbling block for piano students is learning to read music notes, AND
- Because teachers shouldn’t have to waste valuable lesson time watching kids struggle with something that can easily be reinforced at home.
Learning to read notes is as simple as putting in the time. But that time shouldn’t be your lesson time.
You have 30 minutes a week to give students a lifelong gift. You must maximize that time to give your students those things that only a teacher can give… those things that a book will never replace.
Which is exactly why we created our piano student workbooks.
These books are simple-to-follow resources, with daily activities that your students will happily complete at home.
When they come to piano lessons, you won’t have to be frustrated with a kid that doesn’t know F from G or C from E; instead, they will get a full 30 minutes of your piano teaching magic!
The progress your students will make when note reading struggles are finally removed from lesson time will be like night and day.
So, that’s why we are creating piano student workbooks…
Now, let’s talk about today’s release!
The best way to reinforce note reading so kids never forget is through repeated practice. That is why we created Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Timed Note Reading Tests For Piano.
But the best way to LEARN to read notes is to actually print them on a page. To take a pencil, place the tip of that pencil on the correct section of the music staff, shade in a beautiful little circle, and then add a stem.
Simply put… when you print a note, you put it in your brain.
I’ll say it again: When You Print A Note, You Put It In Your Brain. It really works.
But there’s a second piece to the puzzle…
Kids need to create notes with purpose.
And that’s why in Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Playing With Note Printing Activity Book For Piano, Book 1, our innovative learning approach gets kids note printing full piano pieces.
That’s right… the kids put the music on the page. Following our note guides, they build piano pieces that they can actually play.
Kids find this super-satisfying.
But the motivational exercises don’t end there. In addition to creating the music, in Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Playing With Note Printing Activity Book For Piano, Book 1, kids also use their note printing skills to complete mazes, spelling activities, note sorts, and patterning paths.
I really do believe this book will be the future of note reading instruction.
By using this book, you will have way less homework to plan, your students will enjoy learning to read notes, and your actual lesson time can put the one teaching tool to use that a book will never replace… wonderful YOU!
Now, while you’ll obviously want to stock your students’ music bags with this book when kids return to lessons, getting your kids started over the summer is just as good an idea.
Speaking from experience, parents get a lot of satisfaction from seeing their kids do a little bit of learning over the summer and will be thrilled to know that their kids are perfecting their piano skills, even when the weather’s warm.
Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Playing With Note Printing Activity Book For Piano, Book 1 is available right now on Amazon.
And as always, if you ever have questions about this book, or anything related to piano teaching, please reach out to us through our Contact Form on the site or come chat with us in our Facebook Groups.
Thanks for watching. Have a great day.
