Read Music Method: The graph to staff approach - Paperback

by Joanna Rogers (Author)

Read Music Method, the Graph to Staff Approach, provides an unforgettably fun and easy way to teach and learn how to read music. The beginning stages of reading music are broken into easy progressive steps. Students gain a deep comprehension of the musical staff, and right away, begin writing and playing their own music. Tracking and note recognition become second nature. Children of all learning styles are tempted to quickly advance by the sheer fun of trying the next task Students will: 1) Build a solid basic skill of reading lines and spaces, 2) Recognize intervals like old friends, 3) Recognize notes by reading, writing, and listening, 4) Quickly and easily begin reading notes on the musical staff. This edition has been revised to make teaching and learning even easier. Table of Contents: Finding Middle C, Line Notes and Space Notes, Stepping Up and Down, Crossovers, Middle C Position, Letter Names, Compose In Middle C Position, Contrary Motion in Middle C Position, The Staff Today, Flash Cards Middle C Position, Treble Clef and Bass Clef Symbols, Compose in Contrary Motion, Contrary Motion on the Staff, Listen and Write, Whole Notes, Half Notes, Quarter Notes, C Scale, Reading C Scale, Finger Numbers, Reading Skips, Compose Using Skips, Eighth Notes, C Position, Flashcards C Position, Intervals, The Grand Staff, Symmetrical Cs, Intervals and Octaves, Triads, Root of a Chord, Sixteenth Notes, Dynamics, Triplets, Sharps and Flats, Time Signature, Flashcards.

Author Biography

Joanna Rogers, mother of seven children and well-loved piano teacher, has built a career around the joy of music. For thirty years she has tuned-in to discover the learning styles and preferences of her many students, becoming acutely aware of the best methods of teaching children how to read music and play piano. Designing lessons to reach every student and make piano lessons fun; she created Read Music Method, the Graph to Staff Approach. Joanna has a BA in Elementary Education from the University of Phoenix, and studied piano pedagogy at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho and Illinois Central College.