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A Spooky Classical Freebie!

9/28/2019

October is a great time to introduce a few spooky pieces in your studio--and a great way to introduce your students to Classical favorites that they might hear around Halloween!

Today I am sharing a free, elementary-level arrangement of the opening theme from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. This fun piece includes several concepts that are great for elementary students: playing both hands in unison, listening carefully for dynamic contrasts, crossing finger 2 over the thumb, and moving both hands down an octave.

Click HERE or on the picture above to get your free copy. And don't forget to check my Free Stuff page HERE for more fun Halloween music!

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Free "Falling Leaves" Composition Activity

8/18/2019

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It has been a long, hot summer around here. As my studio gears up for the new school year, my thoughts are turning toward fall--cooler weather, changing leaves, and everything pumpkin spice!

With that in mind, I have created a fun, fall-themed composition activity that can be customized for beginning to intermediate students. Use this activity to jump start creative thinking in your beginners, or to review scales and notation on the staff with your returning students.

Click HERE to get all three pages of the "Falling Leaves" composition activity, including an instruction sheet and staff template page for notating each student's composition.

What do you think? Are you planning any special fall activities for your students this year? I'd love to hear your ideas in the comments!

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Updated Transposing Challenge Worksheets!

6/12/2019

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One of my goals for the upcoming year is to help my students become more comfortable playing in a wide variety of keys. Studying scales is great--but I have found that scales make the most sense when students have a practical application for the scales they are learning.

To that end, I have updated the "transposing challenge" section of my Free Stuff page to include 8 revised transposing challenge worksheets! These worksheets will help students progress from transposing simple five-note melodies played by one hand, all the way up to playing melodies using the entire one octave scale harmonized by primary chords.

These worksheets are a great way to give your students more practice with pentascales, one octave scales, and primary chords in all 12 major keys. They also build reading skills by encouraging students to look for interval patterns and blocked and broken chords.

Click on the links below to download any of these free worksheets:

Challenge #1: Jingle Bells (5 note melody, RH only)
Challenge#2: Ode to Joy (5 note melody, LH only)
Challenge #3: Row, Row, Row, Your Boat (5 note melody with simple LH harmony)
Challenge #4: Deck the Halls (stretching to a sixth in each hand)
Challenge #5: Alouette (5 note melody using I and V7 chords in LH)
Challenge #6: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow (extended melody using I, IV, and V7 chords in LH)
Challenge #7: Country Gardens (using the entire major scale with I, IV, and V7 chords in LH)
Challenge #8: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (extended melody with I, IV, V7 chords in each hand)

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