Free Landmark Note Worksheets!

4/26/2018

A great way to build strong note-reading skills is by teaching "landmark" notes: notes on the staff that are easy for students to memorize and identify quickly.

The landmark notes that I have found to be the most helpful for my students are shown in the picture on the left.

To help students practicing identifying and drawing these landmark notes, today I am sharing six free worksheets that you can use with your students! Each worksheet focuses on just 2-3 of the landmark notes pictured above. Click on the photos below to download each set of PDF worksheets.

Worksheets 1 and 2:
Treble G, Bass F, and Middle C.

Students learn to use the treble and bass clefs to find these landmark notes quickly.

Worksheets 3 and 4:
The 3 C's: treble, middle, and bass C.

Students learn to count 3 spaces up or 3 spaces down on the staff to find treble and bass C.

Worksheets 5 and 6:
"Ground" G and "Floating" F, plus a review of drawing the 3 C's.

The terms "ground" G and "floating" F are great hints to help students remember the locations of these landmark notes.

What do you think? Do you teach note-reading using landmark notes? Please leave a comment if you find these worksheets to be helpful for your students--I would love to hear from you!

P.S. Don't forget to check out the other free worksheets and teaching resources on my "Free Stuff" page HERE.

16 Comments

Mel

6/11/2020 03:53:21 pm

Fabulous resources, just what I was looking for. Thanks!

Chrissy Ricker

6/11/2020 03:59:29 pm

You are very welcome!

sharon wenger link

6/24/2020 09:10:37 am

Perfect! I have a student using Piano Town which introduces bass clef f and treble clef g as landmark notes. (I only just switched to using P.T. and my previous series just based both hands at middle c and worked outward... so this approach is new for me.) He's been struggling from using pre-staff notation to now all of a sudden both clefs and both hands. These worksheets will be so helpful for him. Thank you! Can't wait to check out your other resources!

6/24/2020 09:33:20 am

You are very welcome! I hope your student finds these helpful!

Sachi

12/9/2020 03:26:38 am

This is perfect. Theres not too many online learning resources for the landmark system. This was very helpful. Thank you 😊

12/9/2020 05:49:29 am

Lohnay Bishoff link

4/21/2021 10:58:55 am

Thank you so much--I love these. I can't wait to try them out on some of my students struggling with note reading. I teach the Mayron Cole Method which I really love, but some of my transfer students struggle so much with note reading.

4/21/2021 11:00:26 am

You are very welcome! I hope your students have fun with these!

Elizabeth

4/5/2022 05:12:05 pm

Thank you for these, Chrissy! This will help with a student that's forgetting their notes. I love everything that you do! I am getting another student into your Let's Quest books very soon....thank you so much for helping with bored with their method books students too!!

4/6/2022 05:16:28 am

You are very welcome! I hope these worksheets are helpful. I am happy to hear that your students are enjoying the Let's Quest books too--thank you!

Jill

3/3/2023 01:26:59 pm

Would you give permission for these to be posted on my Google classroom? Thank you for replying.

3/4/2023 03:06:18 am

Hi Jill, you have my permission to post these in your Google classroom for the use of your own students. Thank you for asking!

Gary Koutcher

4/8/2023 08:37:10 am

I really like your modified version of the Landmark system. When I read about the original landmarks on line, I realized it made more sense if I used the landmarks you were suggesting (though at this time, I hadn't come across your web site yet and didn't know you were recommending them).
It was very helpful to have an expert piano teacher agree with what I was thinking as being a beginner-intermediate student I prefer not to modify things that have been around for years. So thak you very much. Also Your learning sheets are excellent too.

4/9/2023 06:06:19 am

Thank you for your kind words--I am glad that these sheets have been helpful for you!

Tabo Kawana Mwangelwa

6/8/2023 03:22:07 am

These are great! Thanks

6/8/2023 04:36:14 am

You are very welcome--I hope they are helpful!

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