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Scale Blocks

Using Scale Blocks for Musical Form and Memorization

February 12, 2024 by natalie 2 Comments

As I mentioned last week, we focus on musical form at piano lessons right from the beginning. This week we had to get creative with the song, Ferris Wheel, from Piano Safari Level 1. The first line, which we labeled “A” is repeated in inverted form for the third line, and the second line is […]

Filed Under: Game Ideas, Scale Blocks

Using Scale Blocks to Teach Common Tone Voicing in Chord Progressions

November 2, 2018 by natalie Leave a Comment

Having a functional understanding of music theory is extremely important to me as a piano teacher, so my students are continually learning scales, intervals, chords, etc. Our state Music Progressions curriculum has been invaluable to me in helping me establish an appropriate and systematic approach to teaching theory. And my indispensable teaching tool is a […]

Filed Under: Scale Blocks, Scales, Teaching

I see the pattern!

February 27, 2018 by natalie 2 Comments

One of my favorite aspects of teaching is leading students to a discovery of knowledge. Renowned pedagogue Frances Clark reminded us, “Teaching is not telling.” As easy, and seemingly efficient, as it is to fall into the rut of telling students what I want them to know, the reality is that they will almost assuredly […]

Filed Under: Key Signatures, Scale Blocks, Scales, Teaching

The Speedy Scale Game for Piano Students!

January 24, 2017 by natalie 2 Comments

As I mentioned last week, I love to incorporate a variety of games to reinforce and evaluate music theory concepts with my students. This week we tried a Speedy Scale game to help students develop visual-spatial skills (they weren’t allowed to look at the piano keyboard, but had to visualize it in their mind) and […]

Filed Under: Fun Extras!, Game Ideas, Scale Blocks, Scales, Teaching

These are a few of my favorite [teaching] things…

September 20, 2016 by natalie 3 Comments

We are officially two weeks into piano lessons for this fall, and everyone is off to a great start with our Vanishing Voices practice incentive theme! It’s fun to watch the students study the gallery of composers on the studio wall and learn how to pronounce their names. I attended a training seminar this weekend […]

Filed Under: Game Ideas, Scale Blocks, Teaching, Videos

Free Piano Scale Discovery Worksheet

March 1, 2016 by natalie

It’s amazing how much more fun it is to learn about chords and scales on the piano when you’re using a magnetic board, some cool thumbtack-looking magnets, a set of scale blocks, and a piano scale worksheet! After learning how to count the half steps to construct major chords, I called out the name of […]

Filed Under: Scale Blocks, Teaching, This Week in Photos, Worksheets Tagged With: Free Resources

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