Manuscript paper
Single stave (A4 portrait) - very wide (suitable for pracising writing notes for the first time)
Double staves (A4 landscape) - wide (suitable for transcribing and composing for young learners)
Great stave for piano / What can you see? (A4 landscape) - medium wide (suitable for practising writing notes to explore various intervals, including ledger line notes, and to discover melodic shapes that come out of it [give it a name!] - no need to know the note names, just have fun with line notes and space notes!; ledger line notes can be simply explained as needing a ladder to go higher or lower than the stave area.)
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Off-stave chord transcription sheet (A4) - print both sides ---> cut in half ---> fold in half to saddle stich using a rotary stapler (here's mine)
Off-stave chord transcription sheet (Letter size, US) - print both sides ---> cut in half ---> fold in half to saddle stich using rotatable stapler
Double staves (A4 landscape) - wide (suitable for transcribing and composing for young learners)
Great stave for piano / What can you see? (A4 landscape) - medium wide (suitable for practising writing notes to explore various intervals, including ledger line notes, and to discover melodic shapes that come out of it [give it a name!] - no need to know the note names, just have fun with line notes and space notes!; ledger line notes can be simply explained as needing a ladder to go higher or lower than the stave area.)
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Off-stave chord transcription sheet (A4) - print both sides ---> cut in half ---> fold in half to saddle stich using a rotary stapler (here's mine)
Off-stave chord transcription sheet (Letter size, US) - print both sides ---> cut in half ---> fold in half to saddle stich using rotatable stapler
Worksheet
Musical staircase (A4 landscape) - suitable for practise writing notes by steps, ascending and descending; for understanding the relationship between the notes on the stave and the notes on the piano; always useful to know where the middle C on the piano in relation to the middle C on the great stave.
Musical staircase_fill in the missing notes! (A4 landscape) - useful for consolidating the understanding of notes by step; useful exercise before start working on intervallic reading for melodic patterns.
More musical staircase (A4 landscape):
Trace over the brace, bar line, clefs, notes and staircase
Trace over the brace, bar line, clefs, stems and colour the notes black
Heartbeat in Music=Pulse (Beat) - useful as a follow-up worksheet after learning about the recurring pulse (beat) in music; silent but feelable like heartbeat in your body.
How to use it:
1. Colour the note(s) black in each heart and all the hearts with any colour.
2. You can play a rhythm singing game using this; e.g. teacher sings 2-beat patterns pointing each note as s/he sings, then student copies,
then swap the task when the student develops confidence in singing and following the rhymic patterns.
3. Based on the patterns the student has become familiar, compose a 4-bar rhythmic tune in 2/4; you can even add pitches to it to turn it
into a melody and develop it further from there if the imagination takes over!
Understanding beat & metre (A4 landscape) - 4 exercises, useful for developing the listening ear for recurring beats in music. Teachers can simply play a blocked chord on every beat for as many hearts there are on each line of exercise on the worksheet.
How it works:
1. Play with an accent on
(first line): every 4 beats
(second line): every 3 beats
(third line): every 5 beats
(fourth line): every other beat
2. Student taps on each heart as s/he listens and take notice of where the strong beat occurs
2. Colour the strong beat with a colour pen/pencil
3. Insert a bar line just before each strong beat
4. At the beginning of each line, write the number of beats that occurs in a bar
Musical staircase_fill in the missing notes! (A4 landscape) - useful for consolidating the understanding of notes by step; useful exercise before start working on intervallic reading for melodic patterns.
More musical staircase (A4 landscape):
Trace over the brace, bar line, clefs, notes and staircase
Trace over the brace, bar line, clefs, stems and colour the notes black
Heartbeat in Music=Pulse (Beat) - useful as a follow-up worksheet after learning about the recurring pulse (beat) in music; silent but feelable like heartbeat in your body.
How to use it:
1. Colour the note(s) black in each heart and all the hearts with any colour.
2. You can play a rhythm singing game using this; e.g. teacher sings 2-beat patterns pointing each note as s/he sings, then student copies,
then swap the task when the student develops confidence in singing and following the rhymic patterns.
3. Based on the patterns the student has become familiar, compose a 4-bar rhythmic tune in 2/4; you can even add pitches to it to turn it
into a melody and develop it further from there if the imagination takes over!
Understanding beat & metre (A4 landscape) - 4 exercises, useful for developing the listening ear for recurring beats in music. Teachers can simply play a blocked chord on every beat for as many hearts there are on each line of exercise on the worksheet.
How it works:
1. Play with an accent on
(first line): every 4 beats
(second line): every 3 beats
(third line): every 5 beats
(fourth line): every other beat
2. Student taps on each heart as s/he listens and take notice of where the strong beat occurs
2. Colour the strong beat with a colour pen/pencil
3. Insert a bar line just before each strong beat
4. At the beginning of each line, write the number of beats that occurs in a bar
Prop
Four-colour strip (template) - to place on the keyboard to reveal a repeating pattern of 2 black-key & 3-black-key as shown in the picture here.
Choose Acrobat Reader to open the file. For printing, make sure you select the page size setting to 'actual size', NOT 'fit' to page in the 'page sizing and handling' option.
To paste four strips together, I'd normally use self-adhesive book cover vinyl (2cm square). It's much stronger than cellotape.
Choose Acrobat Reader to open the file. For printing, make sure you select the page size setting to 'actual size', NOT 'fit' to page in the 'page sizing and handling' option.
To paste four strips together, I'd normally use self-adhesive book cover vinyl (2cm square). It's much stronger than cellotape.