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Free Landmark Note Worksheets!

4/26/2018

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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. 
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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.


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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.



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​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.
10 Comments
Mel
6/11/2020 03:53:21 pm

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

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Chrissy Ricker
6/11/2020 03:59:29 pm

You are very welcome!

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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!

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Chrissy Ricker
6/24/2020 09:33:20 am

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

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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 😊

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Chrissy Ricker
12/9/2020 05:49:29 am

You are very welcome!

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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.

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Chrissy Ricker
4/21/2021 11:00:26 am

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

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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!!

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Chrissy Ricker
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!

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