PianoPanda's Sheet Music (Leveled Songs in .pdf format) Music Theory Lessons Lesson - Note and Rest Durations Lesson - Elements of Music: Rhythm Lesson - Note Names: Ledger Lines Lesson - Articulation Marks Lesson - Tempo Lesson - Dynamics and Phrase Marks # - Ear Training: Interval Songs # - Technique: Fingering Rules # - Technique: Scales # - Technique: Arpeggios # - Technique: Pentascales # - Technique: Inversions # - British Terms # - Music Textures ------------------------------------------------------------ Piano Technique Book/Sheet Music (coming soon) Worksheets/Homework/ Learning Aids Terms and Symbols: Key Names: Note Naming: Scales: - white key only scales (2 octaves) - white key Major scales (one octave) Rhythm and Meter: -Basic Rhythm and Meter (pianopanda) -Adding Note Durations(MMF) -Dictation (Stomp, Blast, Bluemangroup) use a sequencing app to compose a cool groove loop and have the students notate the rhythm and or parts. | Drills (from Musictheory.net) Grading for Tests: Once you finish a drill test click "View Report." 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Copy and Paste your code into a text, email, or google classroom assignment and send it to your teacher along with this link: Drill #1 (Practice) Key Names (White Keys) Drill #2 (Practice) Key Names (Flats) (Test) Key Names (Flats) - 1 minute Drill #3 (Practice) Key Names (Sharps) (Test) Key Names (Sharps) - 1 minute Drill #4 (Practice) Key Names (Whites & Blacks) (Test) Key Names (Whites & Blacks) - 1 minute --------------------------------- Grand Staff Note Naming Mnemonics: Bottom to Top Treble Lines - EGBDF - Elephants Go Bouncing Down Freeways Treble Spaces - FACE - Flamingos Are Climbing Everest Bass Lines - GBDFA - Grizzly Bears Don't Fly Airplanes Bass Spaces - ACEG - All Cows Eat Grass Drill #5 (Practice) Note Names (Treble Lines and Spaces) (Practice) Note Names (Treble Lines) (Practice) Note Names (Treble Spaces) (Test) Note Names (Treble Lines and Spaces) 1 minute Drill #6 (Practice) Note Names (Bass Lines and Spaces) (Practice) Note Names (Bass Lines) (Practice) Note Names (Bass Spaces) (Test) Note Names (Bass Clef Lines and Spaces) - 1 minute Drill #7 (Practice) Note Names (Grand Staff) no helpers (Test) - Note Names (Grand Staff) - 1 minute --------------------------------- Drill #8 (Practice) Treble Clef Ledger Lines (Practice) Bass Clef Ledger Lines (Test) Bass Clef Ledger Lines - 1 minute Drill #10 (Practice) Grand Staff Notes to Keyboard (Test) Grand Staff to Keyboard - 1 minute --------------------------------- Order of Sharps: Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle FCGDAEB = F+5+5+5... etc. or two letters to the right for key Order of Flats: Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles Father BEADGCF = B-5-5-5...etc. or one letter backwards for the key Drill #11 (Practice) Key Signatures (Sharps) (Test) Key Signatures (Sharps) - 1 minute Drill #12 (Practice) Key Signatures (Flats) (Test) Key Signatures (Flats) - 1 minute Drill #13 (Test) Key Signatures (Sharps & Flats) - 1 minute Drill # Specific Intervals (Ear Trainer) (Practice) Specific Interval Identification (Test) Specific Interval Identification - 1 minute Drill # Basic Staff Interval Identification (Practice) Staff Interval Identification (Test) Staff Interval Identification- 1 minute Drill # Specific Keyboard Interval Identification (Practice) Staff Interval Identification (Test) Staff Interval Identification- 1 minute Customize your own drills at: --------------------------------- --------------------------------- also available: Theory Lessons, Tenuto2 ------------------------------------------------------ Chord Piano Method/Sequence #1 - Tonic (I) - One Chord Songs terms: interval, triad, chord, scale degree, Frere Jaque/"Are You Sleeping, Brother John" - Hooktheory Lime in the Coconut - Harry Nillson/Muppets adds 7th to I chord Most Rounds, Bugle Calls: Orff Music, Snake Charmer, Mighty Truck, Canoe Song, Row Row Row, Three Blind Mice, Indian Songs, Pentatonic Improv, sections of songs with pedal tones: going home, (bagpipe), Kodaly Game Songs (Sorida), boomwhaker songs, We will rock you, Ram Sam Sam, #2 - Authentic Cadence (V-I) "Shave and a Haircut - Two Bits" #3 - Dominant (V) - Two Chord Songs terms: chord function, chord quality, groove, cadence London Bridge, Itsy Bitsy Spider, mary had a little, My Hat, Plly Wolly, Rock a My Soul, Hush Little Baby, Where Has My LIttle Dog Gone, (V-I add 6) - "Dot Com" American Authors - Best Day of My LIfe #3 - Minor Chord Quality (ii) (This can also be used to teach modality) terms: chord quality, mode, Sailor Sea Shanty - Hooktheory #4 - "Amen" - Plagal Cadence (IV-IV-I) #5 - All Primary Chords (I, IV, V) inversion or slash chord, cadence (authentic V-I, plagal IV-I), Happy Birthday - Hooktheory In the Jungle - Hooktheory Labamba, Saints Go Marching, Louie Louie (minor v) #6 - Secondary Chords (vi7, IV, I) - Stay with Me - Sam Smith (inversions) (V-iv-iv-i) - Coldplay Clocks (inversions) (I, V, vi, IV) Major Let it Go, Don't Stop Believing, Let it Be, Hey Soul Sister (verse,chorus uses only I,IV,V), (vi, IV, I, V) minor Apologize (vi, ii6,I,V) , Someone Like You (chorus), Grenade (vi, IV, I) - Stay with Me (I, V, vi, VI) Jar of Hearts, Country Roads (chorus), Right Here Waiting (chorus), Home - Philip Phillips, Someone Like You (chorus), (I, iii, vi, V) Someone Like You- Adele (verse) #9 - The 50's Progression - "Heart and Soul" Blue Moon, Duke of Earl, Lolipop, Stand By Me, Beyond the Sea, Stand By Me, We Go Together from Grease, Heart and Soul ... can also be I, vi, ii, V rather than I, vi, IV, V YMCA (I vi ii V), Stand By Me, In the Still of the night Duke of Earl, Goodnight Sweetheart, circle of 5ths progression #10 - The Canon in D Progression It's raining Tacos # - I V ii IV- somewhere over, closing time time to say goodbye # - 7th chords # - circle progressions (5ths, 4ths, 3rds) # - Sus Chords # - ii-V-I cadences # - Rhythms Grooves: Alberti, Jazzy Anticipations, Arpeggiation, Bass Notes, Walking Bass, Boogie, 3-3-2 pattterns, In-the Style of Patterns, Right Hand Left Hand Alternation patterns, 1 and 3, 2 and 4, offbeats/ska, drones, repeated notes, Heart and Soul, country feel, floyd cramer style, # - Voicings - root, rootless cadences, inversions of rootless or other chords, shell voicings and inversions of, jazzy, quartal harmony, shell, bassline,etc. drop two voicings, # - 12 bar blues with primary chords # - pop song form / 32 bar form / AABridgeA # - tritone substitutions, chord scales, landing notes Meet the Flintstones, I Got Rhythm, #- make it jazzy - add in 7ths, add tensions, willie's step by step standards,spreading chords out between hands. 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