I’m doing some spring summer cleaning here on Music Matters Blog and am going through old drafts of posts that never got published. Here’s one I completely forgot about and will definitely be coming back to! Check out the awesome and huge collection of free music worksheets on the Fun and Learn Music website! I […]
Free Resources
Page of Free Piano Resources
Piano teachers are notorious for keeping busy, and Jerald Simon is perhaps at the top of the list! As a Utah piano teacher and prolific composer, he keeps busy creating and providing all sorts of music and resources for the piano teaching community. I was thrilled to see that he has compiled many of these […]
New Free Music Theory Worksheet Find!
If you haven’t been over to MusicTheoryLessons.net lately, check out this incredible collection of free worksheets that you can download and use with your students! Since I rarely use theory books with my students, I am always on the lookout for specific worksheets that I can use to reinforce various concepts. These are also a […]
Free Image Files to Make Your Own Composer Trading Game
One of our favorite loud and lively games we’ve played in the studio is Composer Trading. It was one of the highlights at our September Surprise! piano lesson kickoff for the year! If you download the free image files from the Music Matters Blog store, you can upload them to MOO.com, and from now until […]
Free Piano Scale Discovery Worksheet
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 […]
Free Music Fonts!
In working on curriculum for the Carnival of the Animals music camp in our studio next week, I realized that the Bach musicological font I used to use all the time on my PC was not rendering correctly on my Mac. With a little digging, I discovered a great new Rhythms font that works even […]