Fresh and Fun! Idea – Key Signature-Scale Matchup Music Worksheets
For the month of March, our theme is Know Your Signature – That’s the Key! My goal is to help students not only memorize their key signatures, but also understand the concept that key signatures indicate which scale forms the basis for a particular piece of music. In order to reinforce that concept, I’ve created these Key Signature-Scale Matchup Music Worksheets that I plan to go over with each student and have them complete at their lesson next week. (Actually, I’ll let them choose one to do at their lesson, and assign them the rest to do on their own and bring back to their lesson next week.) Feel free to download them for free and use them with your students as well!
There are four worksheets included in the set: Major-Sharp Keys, minor-sharp Keys, Major-Flat Keys, and minor-flat Keys.
If you have a Fresh and Fun! idea for the month of March that relates to helping students learn key signatures, please leave it in the comments below or e-mail it to me. Basically, a Fresh and Fun! idea should just be a simple activity requiring about 5 minutes that can be done at the beginning of a lesson to help reinforce the concept.
As usual your stuff is amazing! I was wondering which program you use to create such cool worksheets.
Thanks, Stephanie! I used MS Word and Finale to create this worksheet. I’m actually going to post some more specific step-by-step instructions for anyone interested in learning how to create a similar worksheet. I’ll do it a week from Monday for the Mailbag – so check back!
Wow!
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Do you have them in clefs?
Hmmm…no, I sure don’t, Kathy. It didn’t even occur to me that it might be nice to have some with the bass clef as well! Thanks for the idea!