A Unique Music Teaching Method for Young Students
Book one of this unique music teaching method was designed to help beginning music students from ages 4 to 9 learn to read notes. This is a difficult task for many music students, especially for this young age group. Children learn by association. There is nothing simple in their short lives that make it easy for them to associate the standard notes on the Grand Staff to anything familiar. This method of early music instruction uses caricatures of animals as the note heads. These friendly little creatures are something familiar to the child. They are something simple and fun as well as useful. Unique word associations can be developed for each note; and by frequent use of these word clues along with the specially designed Animal Note Flash Cards, transition to standard notes is simple and comfortable for the child.
Good note reading requires the individual to not only recognize the note on the staff and associate it with its tone and location on an instrument, if necessary, but its timing or length held. The first creates a song’s melody and the second its rhythm. Book two introduces timing, using the same animal friends. Since the child quickly recognizes the note, they can concentrate on its value. It is important training for every individual, but the Animal Notes make it possible for a young child to develop a workable knowledge and use of timing from the beginning of their musical training.
Be creative and have fun. This music was designed to make your job of teaching young children and succeeding with them not only possible, but a real joy.
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