After years of brainstorming, creating, editing, and revising, the second book in the Reproducible Rhythm Explorations series is finally here! Rhythm Manipulations picks up where Rhythm Menagerie left off. Rhythm Manipulations is designed to appeal to more mature students such as pre-teens and teens as it explores more advanced rhythmic concepts. Each unit showcases original contemporary art which visually represents the rhythmic […]
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Best Kept Secret on ComposeCreate
Best Kept Secret on ComposeCreate
I’ve been developing something on ComposeCreate.com for over 3 years and it is finally complete! I think its the best kept secret on this website and so I’m excited to tell you all about it.
Online Resources to Prepare for Music Progressions
At our KMTA conference this year, I was asked to present a short session about all the resources that are on the ComposeCreate blog for helping students prepare for the Kansas Music Progressions, the Washington Audition Examinations, and the North Idaho exams. I thought it would be helpful to provide a similar blog post so that you can just easily see where things are […]
Keeping Progressions, Inversions, and Arpeggios Straight
A few weekends ago, my students participated in the Kansas MTA musicianship exams called Music Progressions. One of my piano teacher friends and I were in the office commenting on how difficult it is for some students to remember the correct terms for the scale skills that they play. The students are usually able to play them, but if you ask them to name […]
More Games from Anne
I was visiting Anne Crosby’s Piano Discoveries site the other day and found that she had uploaded yet more exciting games! She has now divided and organized the games into categories including:
Beginner Concepts
Interval Identification
Key Signatures
Notes, Ledger Lines, and Accidentals
Major and Minor
The “Ledger Line Speller” game was particularly helpful to me as I have some students struggling to master these notes. The new […]
Fantastic New Games
Wow, I have just discovered another incredible website with fantastic new games! I remember Anne Crosby’s name from her book In My Dreams which I used with a student ever so long ago. Her compositions were delightfully fresh and appealing to my difficult-to-please student.
2-Handed Rhythm Drills
I have a student who has a bit of trouble tracking rhythms, often pausing between measures. I recently introduced eighth notes to him and we worked for a number of weeks on tapping these eighth note rhythm drills.
I then developed a series of 2-handed eighth note drills to help him track rhythms between the hands. These can also be used for rhythm […]
New Eighth Note Rhythm Drills
I have a few students who are learning eighth notes for the first time. I wanted to give them a series of eighth note worksheets to tap and count at home, but realized that there was only 1 posted on the website.
Circle of Fifths Worksheets
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I’ve recently begun to explain to my students how I choose the order of their scales by using the Circle of Fifths. Basically, I just told them that C is zero accidentals (I don’t show them the circle) and that every Perfect 5th up from C adds a sharp and every […]
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