Worksheets & Handouts

Posture

Half steps, whole steps and Pentatonic Do

• Check out this page for more information (under construction).

Do-Mi-Sol on D

Pentascales: major starting on white notes

Pentascales: minor starting on white notes

Pentascales: major starting on black notes

Pentascales: minor starting on black notes

Feeling Centered in the Scale: 1-4-5-THE-END

Feeling Centered in the Scale: chords on I, IV and V

Play that Tune — transposing (Other tunes to try: Happy Birthday, Christmas tunes)

Combined: Pentascales, 1-4-5, and Twinkle

Additional blank keyboard worksheet

The 6th Note of the Scale: Twinkle and Creepy Twinkle

Combined: Pentascales, 1-4-5, and Twinkle

Fifths and Sixths

“Filled in” sixths

Resolving Major Chords

Resolving Major Chords: in a Circle

Seventh Chords: Resolving V7

Seventh Chords: Octave, Major, Minor, Diminished

Playing the Circle of 4ths: How to Play Any Standard, Step 1 (How Major Chords Move)

Playing the Circle of 4ths: How to Play Any Standard, Step 2 (How Chords Move Within a Key)

Octave Scales, Group 1: C Major is Queen

• (Almost) all the white note scales, Major and Minor: C, G, D, A, E
• LEFT HAND: Do-re-mi-fa-SOL IS THE THUMB, la-ti-do. Do-ti-la-SOL IS THE THUMB, fa-mi-re-do.
• RIGHT HAND: Do-re-mi-FA IS THE THUMB, sol-la-ti-do. Do-ti-la-sol-FA IS THE THUMB, mi-re-do.
• See a written online explanation here.

Octave Scales, Group 2: All the Black Keys

• MAJORS: B, Gb and Db
• MINORS: Ebm, Abm and Bbm
• See a written online explanation here.

Octave Scales, Group 3: Doing It’s Own Thing

• MAJORS: Ab, Eb, Bb and sort of F
• See a written online explanation here.

Octave Scales, Group 4: Black Key Minors

• Gbm and Dbm: play ascending and notice which black key finger 4 (ring finger) plays. Be sure finger 4 plays the SAME black key on the descending scale.

Explore!

Clefs, Key, and Meter — Framework for every new piece of music

Note Reading: steps, clefs and spaces

FACEGBD — treble clef and bass clef. Video coming soon.

Try this drag-n-drop game.

Note Reading: writing Do

Note Reading: writing La

Note Reading: writing 5-note scales, 1-4-5, and Twinkle

Same as above, but with fill-in-the-blanks

I IV V warm-ups

• Key of D
• Key of E – two warm-ups
• Key of F
• Key of G – two warm-ups
• Key of Dm
• Octave-plus-5th warm-ups in E, F, G, D

Key Signatures

LARGE STAFF: blank piano staff, treble and bass clef

LARGE STAFF: blank, no clefs

Print your choice of clefs, staff size etc from here (leaves this website)

Go to this page for audio.