The start of a new month means it is time for a new "Musicianship Monthly" activity!
What is "Musicianship Monthly?" Each month, I share links to free resources you can use to focus on a specific musicianship skill with your students all month long! Want to see past skills we have covered? Click HERE!
Do you find that your students sometimes get a bit rusty with their note names? While we focus quite a bit on reading by pattern and interval in our lessons, sometimes it helps to get back to basics and do a good, old-fashioned review of individual notes on the staff as well!
Today I am highlighting lots of free resources that will help your students refresh their note recognition skills. As a bonus, these worksheets would be perfect supplemental review for students who will be taking a break from lessons this summer.
Keep reading to see the note recognition resource round-up...
What is "Musicianship Monthly?" Each month, I share links to free resources you can use to focus on a specific musicianship skill with your students all month long! Want to see past skills we have covered? Click HERE!
Do you find that your students sometimes get a bit rusty with their note names? While we focus quite a bit on reading by pattern and interval in our lessons, sometimes it helps to get back to basics and do a good, old-fashioned review of individual notes on the staff as well!
Today I am highlighting lots of free resources that will help your students refresh their note recognition skills. As a bonus, these worksheets would be perfect supplemental review for students who will be taking a break from lessons this summer.
Keep reading to see the note recognition resource round-up...
First up, I have 3 brand-new worksheets that challenge students to identify and write notes on the staff that create familiar words. If you have students who love word games, these worksheets are a must-have!
Download a free PDF of any of these "Noted!" worksheets by clicking on the images below.
- Noted! Challenge #1 gets students identifying notes in both treble and bass clef.
- Noted! Challenge #2 asks students to notate the given words on the staff, then to play them on the piano.
- Noted! Challenge #3 requires students to draw the given words using only ledger line notes.
Download a free PDF of any of these "Noted!" worksheets by clicking on the images below.
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One of my favorite ways to work on note recognition is to reinforce the concept of landmark notes. These 3 worksheets help students quickly identify 3 sets of landmark notes: Treble G and Bass F, the 3 C's, and "ground" G and "flying" F.
Click on the images below to download your free PDF worksheets for each group of notes (each set includes 2 worksheets).
Click on the images below to download your free PDF worksheets for each group of notes (each set includes 2 worksheets).
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But what if you have beginners who are just getting their bearings on the staff and aren't quite ready for the worksheets shown above?
This "Notation Station" worksheet is a perfect introduction to note reading! It gives beginners practice drawing clefs, line notes, and space notes.
Click on the image to download your free PDF.
This "Notation Station" worksheet is a perfect introduction to note reading! It gives beginners practice drawing clefs, line notes, and space notes.
Click on the image to download your free PDF.
| Finally, another wonderful and FREE note naming resource that I use often with my students can be found at the website musictheory.net. This website has a customizable, flashcard-style note naming exercise that works especially well with older students and adults that don't need all of the "bells and whistles" found in some of the other note recognition apps out there. All of the exercises on the website are also customizable, so in this exercise you can select clefs and specific ranges of notes to drill, as well as choose to drill notes with or without accidentals. Click HERE to see the free note identification exercise! |  Note identification exercise available at Musictheory.net |
What do you think? How do you help your students keep their note recognition skills from getting rusty? I would love to hear from you in the comments!
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