Preparatory B (from 3 to 5). Lesson 32
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Today I have very special information for you: how to teach your toddlers to see the music notation on the piano keys. Today in our Pedagogy Class:
When teaching your toddler at home always remember that ...
Notes and keys hook together through lines and spaces more obviously than by the note’s name on a scale and keys
Most methods of teaching music have always focused on the differences in similar looking notes and keys.
They start teaching the patterns of octaves, for example. They offer different strategies of matching each note from the score to the piano keys by having students--
- Remember phrases such as Every Good Boy Does Fine
- Color code or picture code each note/key of the octave differently
- Give different names to notes/keys.
If this works, why do we need the Music Staff? Just place the different-looking notes on one line and try to read music! It won’t get you any closer to sight-reading though!
In fact, all fluent readers don’t have time to stop and think about the name/color/picture associated with every note. They grasp music text visually, based on their notes’ position on the lines and spaces.
Until today we also were mostly working on different looking pictures and their names. Time to move on to the more advanced level!
The visual position of notes – this is what makes the difference.
In the illustration below:
Blue is the color of all space notes.
Red is the color of all line notes.
A bluish tint marks the space between the third and fourth lines, since this is the beginning of the next octave.
As you may see there are many Do, Re and Mi etc. notes, but only 5+5 stripes (lines).
Focusing on these stripes/lines will save you and your toddler time in connecting 1+1.
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1. We continue to improve the playing of the DO (C) Major scale with separate hands.
2. Play a scale and repeat the formula 1-2-3, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3, 1-2-3-4-5 and in the opposite direction 5-4-3-2-1, 3-2-1, 4-3-2-1, 3-2-1
3. Try playing the scale with separate hands and singing notes at the same time.
Video example of one of our students:
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1. Music Note Flash Cards - Level 1.
Continue to work with cards - to find out where the notes are boys and where are girls.
Check the answer on the back of the card
Sample:
2. 
Note Duration ®
Keep working on the module and write the score down each time.
Sample:
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