What is the first thing your piano students do when they rise and shine? Practice note reading?
Unlikely 🙂 But with the strategy and printable we’re sharing today, things just might change.
For new piano students, daily note reading practice is essential. A surefire way to ensure it never gets missed is to do it first thing in the morning.
With our “Rise and Shine Note Reading Flashcards”, your primer piano students can knock off note reading practice while they are brushing their teeth, eating their cereal, or riding to school.
The Importance Of Note Reading Can’t Be Overstated
Our “Rise and Shine Note Reading Flashcards” reinforce note reading in middle C position and are available at the bottom of the post, but first…
We share a ton of note reading resources—and for good reason. Kids who can’t read notes will quit piano lessons!
Think about learning to read. Young children will spend a year or two learning their ABCs before ever attempting to read a book.
But piano students are expected to learn to read notes and play music all at the same time. These kiddos don’t get the opportunity to spend a year just learning to read notes.
So, to ensure piano lessons are not a frustrating experience, teachers must find many ways for their students to practice note reading while also learning to make music.
One useful tool, in addition to today’s flashcards, is Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Timed Note Reading Tests for Piano.
Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Timed Note Reading Tests for Piano, Book 1 contains 90 days of timed note reading tests. But if you think we’ve just thrown a bunch of notes onto a bunch of pages, then you don’t know us.
We are passionate about piano pedagogy. Even our resources that appear simple on the surface are developed with the robust pedagogical foundation of a Mack Truck.
The exercises in Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Timed Note Reading Tests for Piano, Book 1 are meticulously designed, following a scaffolded approach to ensure piano students learn notes in a pedagogically sound manner.
Every note in this book has been placed with a purpose.
As your piano students progress through this book, they will learn notes and then never forget them.
Click here or on a cover below to learn more.
Download Our Rise and Shine Note Reading Flashcards
Click here or on the image below to download our “Rise and Shine Note Reading Flashcards” from the Teach Piano Today Homework Pages.
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