Resources
Note-Finding Games
Race game to practise identifying and finding notes on the piano keyboard.
You will need:
– one small counter (or, eg. an eraser ie something big enough not to slip between the piano keys), for each player
– cards each with a letter from A to G. You can download these here (or make your own or use letter tiles from another game).
To play:
Shuffle the cards and and place them face down.
Place the erasers at one end of the piano (starting on the left is easier to begin with as then the letter names are in alphabetical order).
Players take it in turns to take a card and move their counter to the first note on the piano of that letter name. The first player to the other end of the piano is the winner.
For more of a challenge, start at the right-hand end of the piano, as then the players have to work out the letter names in reverse alphabetical order.
Nuvo Toot – fingerings for higher notes
Chart of extra fingerings for notes higher than on the supplied fingering chart
Duets
Rounds – London’s Burning, Frère Jacques & Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Manuscript Paper
A4 portrait 5mm line spacing, two pages.
A4 landscape 5mm line spacing, two pages.
Scales & Arpeggios
Scales – all two octaves, hands together and with fingerings:
Arpeggios – all two octaves, hands together with fingerings
Major arpeggios
Scales Fingering Finger Mat (colour)
Scales Fingering Finger Mat (black & white)
for C, D, E, G and A majors and minors, both hands; right hand B Major and Minor and left hand F major and minor. Very simple! Just put your fingers on the corresponding numbers on the mat to practise the fingerings for these scales. My pupils have found this useful. (They are slightly smaller than real size in order to fit them onto one sheet of A4.)
You are welcome to download and print as many of these as you like.
Please note: As far as I know, these documents are virus-free but I accept no responsibilty if not.