In celebration of the 250th birthday of Mozart this year, I held a special birthday party at my February group class. The only catch was that I didn’t tell the students whose birthday we were celebrating. Throughout the course of the evening, they collected clues and at the end had to figure out whose birthday […]
Worksheets
Fun Practice Record!
Here’s a fun-looking Practice Record that you can download for free from the Piano At Pepper website and print out to use with your students. For about the past six years or so, I’ve made my own student assignment books and practice records, but I always like to get ideas from the designs of others […]
Scale and Chord Progress Chart
Several years ago, I developed this progress chart to include in each student’s practice journal so that we could easily track which chords and scales they had mastered at various tempi. Although I haven’t used the chart for a while now, I still get comments from other teachers who are using it successfully in their […]
Worksheets for Sightreading
The worksheets on this site work great for reinforcing note recognition and some basic sightreading. Each of the following categories contain three separate worksheets that can be downloaded for free: Bass Clef: C Position Bass Clef: Line Notes Bass Clef: Space Notes Bass Clef: Line and Space Notes Treble Clef: C Position Treble Clef: Line […]
Free Sheet Music
After clicking on a link provided by another teacher to free sheet music for Happy Birthday, I spent a few minutes on this site. There are a number of sites offering free sheet music, but this is the first time I’ve come across this one. The list of how many instruments they offer music for […]
Music Coloring Pages
Most children love to color! Would you like to have some fun coloring pages available for your students? If so, then check out this page of very cute music images that can be printed out as coloring pages! Here’s a sample of one of the coloring pages: