Piano for Kids

The Animal Note Method of teaching music, created by the Noteimals, is carefully built so each book adds new skills and abilities until the student is reading and playing in the standard note method with confidence.  You will need to start with “The Animal Note Method of teaching music, created by the Noteimals, is carefully built so each book adds new skills and abilities until the student is reading and playing in the standard note method with confidence.  You will need to start with “Note Reading for Children” and a set of the Animal Note/standard note flash cards.  As each new note is added, review it with the flash card, the word clues for that animal, and then again with the corresponding standard note.  At each lesson, review the notes learned with the flash cards.  Make games with them, let your child create little songs with them.  When the “Note Reading for Children” book is finished, move on to the “Timing for Children”.  When you have started on the section on Half Notes add the “Fun Songs Book One” and/or “Christmas Songs for Children”.  Move on to “More Fun Songs” and “Moving On Book One” and possibly “Moving On Book Two” if you feel your child needs more time with the Animal Notes.  The Theory is very helpful to you as a guide, as it gives  ideas and suggestions to help  you explain basic elements of Music theory as you move forward with your teaching. You can order the books as needed or all at one time, whichever is best for your personal situation.   Please visit our new Website: www.noteimals.com for more important information and helpful suggestions.

For the last 18 months we have been working on another website.  While there is a great amount of useful information about learning to play the piano on piano4kids.com, we wanted to expand the animal note method to other instruments and thus broaden the scope of children’s musical education. In addition to that, we wanted to have information better organized and structured, yet be able to update and change it as needed.  This was not as easy as one might think.  Thanks to a lot of hard work, we are excited and proud to introduce www.Noteimals.com.  We created this name from animal notes – the core of our method – and it allows us to include a wider variety of instruments. For your convenience our new site’s structure takes into consideration students’ age and provides appropriate teaching suggestions. Please go and visit it.  We welcome your comments and ideas. Use the site’s Contact page to send us your thoughts.  We sincerely hope you enjoy the new site as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it for you.