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Key Signatures

In One Ear and Out the Other: 3 Keys to Teaching Music Theory to Students

July 27, 2021 by natalie Leave a Comment

The Colourful Keys blog recently posted a guest article from me highlighting a rather embarrassing discovery I made when I was a high school piano student and then three keys I’ve learned for teaching music theory effectively to my own students since then. You can check it out by clicking on the image below. And […]

Filed Under: Key Signatures, Teaching

Free Piano Scale Fingering Diagrams

July 3, 2019 by natalie 2 Comments

Free Piano Scale Fingering Diagrams

If you’re looking for simple, easy-to-follow piano scale fingering diagrams, look no further! A complete set of Major, natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor keyboard fingering diagrams has been added to the Music Matters Blog store, and you can download them for free! I’ve begun including these in the back of my student assignment […]

Filed Under: Key Signatures, Resources, Scales, Teaching Tagged With: Free Resources

And the Winner Is…

November 16, 2018 by natalie Leave a Comment

#2 – Tiffany! Tiffany, you’ll be receiving a free Circle of 5ths Wall Art Poster to hang in your studio and use with your students! Thanks to everyone who participated in the drawing. As a special deal, from now through the end of Sunday night, you can receive 50% off the Circle of 5ths Wall […]

Filed Under: Key Signatures, News

Win a Free Circle of 5ths Wall Art Poster!

November 9, 2018 by natalie 12 Comments

We are thoroughly enjoying and frequently utilizing the new Circle of 5ths Wall Art poster in our piano studio, so I thought it would be fun to give away a copy of this colorful poster for free to a special Music Matters Blog reader! Just leave a comment below to be entered in the drawing […]

Filed Under: Contests, Fun Extras!, Key Signatures, News

Circle of Fifths Poster a Hit!

October 10, 2018 by natalie Leave a Comment

I was curious to see if any of my students would notice the new Circle of Fifths poster adorning our studio wall this week (surprisingly, it arrived just two days after I ordered it!). Sure enough, the observant ones among the bunch mentioned it as soon as they walked into the studio! A couple of […]

Filed Under: Key Signatures, Scales, Store, Studio Ideas, Teaching, Worksheets

A Fun Key Signature Activity!

April 10, 2018 by natalie Leave a Comment

As I mentioned several weeks ago in the I See the Pattern post, Claire has been working on learning and understanding key signatures. For the latest key signature activity, I had her roll a block with letter names to determine the name of a Major key, then had her place magnets and write the note […]

Filed Under: Key Signatures, Scales, Teaching

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