What should I teach my preschool kid?

What's a good way to teach a kid how to actually read musical notes like a book?

  • The kid knows the notes...but she just can't seem to read them at first sight [it's especially important for her band class]. What are some excercises I can do to help her read the notes at first sight, like a book? She knows them but she usually has to count to get them right, which is a problem for her class. She uses the F clef. [Bass]

  • Answer:

    Teach her the acronym All Cows Eat Grass; for the spaces and for the lines teach her Good Boys Do Fine Always and see if that helps.

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try and teach her an acronym, that's pretty much the basic thing any player learns so they can remember the notes, but you said she already knows them right? i think the best method is just to do a lot of sight reading for example: i just started to learn french horn i play viola and have been for 7 yrs i had to learn a new clef and everything i found a good way to read the notes is through sight reading start with simple songs then get harder if she relle has to count let her but have her guess first i think that'll be the best method for her

sami

Sounds like she just needs practise reading! I use several different things depending on how they learn I have students who learn by doing and movement! So I put 5 long pieces of electrical/sticky/ masking tape on the ground to look like a staff and make stress balls. ( balloons filled with lawn seed/ rice etc) Then I use these stress balls as notes, Getting them to spell out words with the music notes! step on the lines as we say them out loud. There are a million things you can do!! Other I use is flashcards, speed games like http://www.practicespot.com/theorycenter.phtml?cat=4 etc The more creative ways you can find the easier it will be for her to remember. You can find flashcards at http://www.mtrs.co.uk/flashcards2.pdf

bcooper_au

The acronyms I use are Great Big Dogs From Africa for the lines (the kids like that one) and for the spaces All Cows Eat Grass. Do word games with her in a manuscript book. BAD FEED FACE FADED CABBAGE BAGGAGE etc. etc. You write the notes on the appropriate lines or spaces, and ask her what word is that (she will spell it out) or you tell her the word and get her to write the letters on the correct lines and spaces. Find her an easy sightreading book, if you can find one with the main emphasis on the bass clef. Or create your own in a manuscript book or even a scrap book. There are lots of beginners' tunes using only five or six notes. You might find suitable tunes online, that you could copy and paste. She will be happy to play if she likes the sound of the melody. Make it fun for her.

bluebell

Have her go through and say the notes out loud while you play them, so she get to hear how they sound and what they look like at the same time. Have her finger the notes while she says them. If it is a string instrument, have the student play the note and say the name at the same time. This allows the brain to remember the note as well as the sound of the note.

tnpjj13

Some things I do with children, depending on my time spent with them: *Using staff paper, I write out a set of notes for the first line with just the NOTE NAME above the staff and have them fill in the corresponding note on the staff. *I also do this the other way around...draw the notes and have the child write the note names. *Theory worksheets that involve note naming. I like the Alfred series. *Simple method book exercises and constant repetition are your other best option. Try writing out simple exercises, such as a B-flat, C, and D major scale for their instrument and have them repeat each note of the scale 4 times in 4/4 time with a tempo of 72. What grade is she is, and how is this causing a problem in class? It's completely normal for beginners to take time visually decoding and processing notes until they've had at least six months of experience practicing and playing daily. I encourage you to find a basic method book for her and have her practice 20 minutes per day from the book, or at least two sessions of 10 minutes each.

FifthSonata

Why should she count in the first place ? Play each note slowly and she will progress , little by little, but will gain speed in the end. You have to watch, because I teach guitar and some students memorized the whole sheet and played it by heart. How I figured that out? When they were rehearsing, I used to pull the sheet from under their nose and they kept on playing. Briefly, play and read each note at the speed you are comfortable and the rest will follow automatically. No 2 ways about it.

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