A Strong Foundation
If you are looking at house to buy you will exam the walls and foundation for any signs of cracking. This is extremely important because any cracks would be a sign of structural weakness that can cause serious problems with time.
The same is true in music. Note Reading is the foundation of music. Few can succeed if they are not able to accurately read notes. Just as it takes time to build a strong foundation for a building; it takes time to insure a student has good note reading skills before adding the many wonderful techniques that make music so beautiful and entertaining.
For young children, the Animal Notes, their word clues, and the Animal Note to Standard Note flash cards, allow the teacher to help the student acquire a strong working knowledge of note reading. The Animal Notes allow the child to read music notation that are caricatures of fun and familiar animals. Thus the note can take on characteristics that make its place on the Grand Staff and the keyboard easier to remember. Once these word clues are part of the child’s memory, they can be used to quickly learn standard notation. Very young students achieve multiple benefits from this method, including a jump-start on students who begin their training when they are older and improved development of eye-hand-brain coordination in their golden period of assimilation.
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