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Music Theory Speed Tests (GROWING BUNDLE!!)
By HiggyBs Choir
Accelerate your students' music theory skills with the Music Theory Speed Tests Bundle! This comprehensive collection of speed tests is designed to reinforce essential music theory concepts, helping students improve their speed, accuracy, and confidence in identifying key elements of music notation.
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With the Music Theory Speed Tests Bundle, you’ll have everything you need to help your students master the fundamentals of music theory. The included answer keys ensure that grading is quick and easy, allowing you to focus on helping your students excel. Add this bundle to your teaching toolkit and watch your students' skills soar!
Accelerated Piano Adventures Group Piano Guide
By HiggyBs Choir
Elevate your piano teaching with our comprehensive Accelerated Piano Adventures Bundle! This all-in-one bundle includes everything you need to guide your students through Books 1 and 2 of the Accelerated Piano Adventures series, offering a structured, engaging, and effective learning experience.
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Invest in this bundle to streamline your teaching process, keep students motivated, and create a productive learning environment. Download the bundle today and provide your students with everything they need to succeed in their piano adventures!
Progress Tracking Poster for Accelerated Piano Adventures
By HiggyBs Choir
Enhance your piano classroom with our Free Progress Tracking Poster designed to complement the Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 1 & 2: Comprehensive Student Guide & Vocabulary Review! This engaging poster is perfect for tracking student progress through Books 1 and 2 of the Accelerated Piano Adventures series.
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Download this free poster today and give your students a fun and motivating way to track their success through the Accelerated Piano Adventures series!
Connect the Staff to Piano Worksheet Activity
By HiggyBs Choir
Help your students confidently bridge the gap between reading music and playing it on the piano with this engaging "Connect the Staff to Piano" worksheet activity! Designed specifically for beginners, this resource provides a fun and interactive way for students to practice identifying notes on the staff and matching them to their corresponding keys on the piano.
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This activity is perfect for individual practice, homework assignments, or as a classroom learning station. It reinforces note recognition and keyboard geography, laying a solid foundation for future music reading and playing skills. Whether you're teaching piano lessons or general music classes, this resource will help students build essential connections between written music and the piano keyboard.
Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 1: Comprehensive Student Guide & Review
By HiggyBs Choir
Product Description: Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 1: Comprehensive Student Guide & Vocabulary Review
Elevate your group piano lessons with our meticulously crafted guide for Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 1. This product is designed to provide your students with clear, step-by-step instructions to ensure their success while keeping the learning process engaging and manageable.
What’s Included:
Essential Books: To maximize the effectiveness of this guide, you will need the
following books:
These books provide a comprehensive approach to piano instruction, and our guide complements them by focusing on core concepts without overwhelming students. For additional support, you can draw on the extensive resources found in these books.
Supplemental Materials: For added motivation and variety, we recommend having popular repertoire and Christmas books on hand. These resources can offer students a refreshing break and keep them inspired throughout their learning journey.
Classroom Tips: In my classroom, I use a progress tracking poster where students place a sticker for every unit they complete. This visual aid motivates them to advance at their own pace. Each time they complete a portion, they receive a stamp as a symbol of their achievement. This system has proven incredibly effective in helping students progress at their own speed, ensuring they gain mastery without feeling rushed.
Note: While this guide does not cover every aspect of the supplementary books, it provides a solid foundation for understanding the key concepts. For students needing extra help, the additional materials in the listed books will offer further practice and support.
This Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 1 guide is the perfect tool for group piano classes, combining structured guidance with flexibility to accommodate each student's unique learning pace.
Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 2: Comprehensive Student Guide & Review
By HiggyBs Choir
Product Description: Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 2: Comprehensive Student Guide & Vocabulary Review
Elevate your group piano lessons with our meticulously crafted guide for Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 2. This product is designed to provide your students with clear, step-by-step instructions to ensure their success while keeping the learning process engaging and manageable.
What’s Included:
Essential Books: To maximize the effectiveness of this guide, you will need the
following books:
These books provide a comprehensive approach to piano instruction, and our guide complements them by focusing on core concepts without overwhelming students. For additional support, you can draw on the extensive resources found in these books.
Supplemental Materials: For added motivation and variety, we recommend having popular repertoire and Christmas books on hand. These resources can offer students a refreshing break and keep them inspired throughout their learning journey.
Classroom Tips: In my classroom, I use a progress tracking poster where students place a sticker for every unit they complete. This visual aid motivates them to advance at their own pace. Each time they complete a portion, they receive a stamp as a symbol of their achievement. This system has proven incredibly effective in helping students progress at their own speed, ensuring they gain mastery without feeling rushed.
Note: While this guide does not cover every aspect of the supplementary books, it provides a solid foundation for understanding the key concepts. For students needing extra help, the additional materials in the listed books will offer further practice and support.
This Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 2 guide is the perfect tool for group piano classes, combining structured guidance with flexibility to accommodate each student's unique learning pace.
The Greatest Night in Pop (2024) movie analysis questions! We Are the World!
By The Red-Haired Reader
On January 28th, 1985, dozens of the time period’s most popular musicians gathered in Los Angeles to record a charity song for African famine relief. Setting stylistic differences and egos aside, they collaborated on a song that would make history. This documentary, which debuted at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, examines how the song came to be, who was involved, and the implications of the recording.
This Doc (printable OR digital) asks students 9 thought-provoking questions for during and after viewing the film. This is NOT a guided viewing assignment; it's a series of thought-provoking questions that asks them to consider the film as a whole and to synthesize what they might already know about these musicians and the event with what they saw in the film. They are asked about the title, the lyrics to "We Are The World", the impact of the event, who planned the event and why, the artists who participated, the arrangement of the recording, the public's response, the impact of the song during this particular time period, etc.
I use this with my high school elective "Lyrics as Literature" with 9-12th graders, but I'd feel comfortable using it with upper middle school students as well.
By ZS Music Publishing
SET 4: Two Measure cards in 4/4 time using Quarter Notes, and Quarter Rests.
These flashcards are a great compliment to your resource library! Each set is 1 to 2 measures of a vast variety of rhythms to build sight reading, fluency, and rhythmic skills in the music classroom. The flashcards can be used in both the classroom and private studio setting. They are small enough for you to slip into a binder, or envelop if you are a traveling teacher! You can also slip these under a document camera, or stick them on a music stand for rapid fire reading with your kiddos!
For optimal durability, I recommend printing on heavier paper, cutting each section out, and laminating the cards. Binding is up to you, but you can hole punch and put them on binder rings, or have each set coil bound.
By ZS Music Publishing
SET 1: One Measure cards in 4/4 time using Quarter and Eighth Notes, and Quarter Rests.
These flashcards are a great compliment to your resource library! Each set is 1 to 2 measures of a vast variety of rhythms to build sight reading, fluency, and rhythmic skills in the music classroom. The flashcards can be used in both the classroom and private studio setting. They are small enough for you to slip into a binder, or envelop if you are a traveling teacher! You can also slip these under a document camera, or stick them on a music stand for rapid fire reading with your kiddos!
For optimal durability, I recommend printing on heavier paper, cutting each section out, and laminating the cards. Binding is up to you, but you can hole punch and put them on binder rings, or have each set coil bound.
By ZS Music Publishing
SET 5: Two Measure cards in 4/4 time using Quarter and Eighth Notes.
These flashcards are a great compliment to your resource library! Each set is 1 to 2 measures of a vast variety of rhythms to build sight reading, fluency, and rhythmic skills in the music classroom. The flashcards can be used in both the classroom and private studio setting. They are small enough for you to slip into a binder, or envelop if you are a traveling teacher! You can also slip these under a document camera, or stick them on a music stand for rapid fire reading with your kiddos!
For optimal durability, I recommend printing on heavier paper, cutting each section out, and laminating the cards. Binding is up to you, but you can hole punch and put them on binder rings, or have each set coil bound.
By ZS Music Publishing
SET 3: Two Measure cards in 4/4 time using Quarter Notes, and Quarter Rests.
These flashcards are a great compliment to your resource library! Each set is 1 to 2 measures of a vast variety of rhythms to build sight reading, fluency, and rhythmic skills in the music classroom. The flashcards can be used in both the classroom and private studio setting. They are small enough for you to slip into a binder, or envelop if you are a traveling teacher! You can also slip these under a document camera, or stick them on a music stand for rapid fire reading with your kiddos!
For optimal durability, I recommend printing on heavier paper, cutting each section out, and laminating the cards. Binding is up to you, but you can hole punch and put them on binder rings, or have each set coil bound.
By ZS Music Publishing
SET 6: Two Measure cards in 4/4 time using Quarter and Eighth Notes, and Quarter Rests.
These flashcards are a great compliment to your resource library! Each set is 1 to 2 measures of a vast variety of rhythms to build sight reading, fluency, and rhythmic skills in the music classroom. The flashcards can be used in both the classroom and private studio setting. They are small enough for you to slip into a binder, or envelop if you are a traveling teacher! You can also slip these under a document camera, or stick them on a music stand for rapid fire reading with your kiddos!
For optimal durability, I recommend printing on heavier paper, cutting each section out, and laminating the cards. Binding is up to you, but you can hole punch and put them on binder rings, or have each set coil bound.
By ZS Music Publishing
SET 7: Two Measure cards in 4/4 time using Eighth Notes, and Quarter Rests.
These flashcards are a great compliment to your resource library! Each set is 1 to 2 measures of a vast variety of rhythms to build sight reading, fluency, and rhythmic skills in the music classroom. The flashcards can be used in both the classroom and private studio setting. They are small enough for you to slip into a binder, or envelop if you are a traveling teacher! You can also slip these under a document camera, or stick them on a music stand for rapid fire reading with your kiddos!
For optimal durability, I recommend printing on heavier paper, cutting each section out, and laminating the cards. Binding is up to you, but you can hole punch and put them on binder rings, or have each set coil bound.
By ZS Music Publishing
SET 2: One Measure cards in 4/4 time using Quarter and Eighth Notes, and Quarter Rests.
These flashcards are a great compliment to your resource library! Each set is 1 to 2 measures of a vast variety of rhythms to build sight reading, fluency, and rhythmic skills in the music classroom. The flashcards can be used in both the classroom and private studio setting. They are small enough for you to slip into a binder, or envelop if you are a traveling teacher! You can also slip these under a document camera, or stick them on a music stand for rapid fire reading with your kiddos!
For optimal durability, I recommend printing on heavier paper, cutting each section out, and laminating the cards. Binding is up to you, but you can hole punch and put them on binder rings, or have each set coil bound.
By ZS Music Publishing
SET 8: Two Measure cards in 4/4 time using Eighth Notes, and Quarter Rests.
These flashcards are a great compliment to your resource library! Each set is 1 to 2 measures of a vast variety of rhythms to build sight reading, fluency, and rhythmic skills in the music classroom. The flashcards can be used in both the classroom and private studio setting. They are small enough for you to slip into a binder, or envelop if you are a traveling teacher! You can also slip these under a document camera, or stick them on a music stand for rapid fire reading with your kiddos!
For optimal durability, I recommend printing on heavier paper, cutting each section out, and laminating the cards. Binding is up to you, but you can hole punch and put them on binder rings, or have each set coil bound.
Sightreading Cards for Guitar Set 1
By ZS Music Publishing
Don't you think Guitar students should work on sight reading as well? Students struggling to read the treble staff or the TAB?
Check this new resource out! Sightreading Cards for Guitar are two measure, bite-sized flash cards for you to use with students of any age and stage.
Set 1 uses notes on String 1: E, F and G. There are 24 cards included in set 1. The cards are perfect for a warm-up, activity transition, or for assessment; the options are limitless!
Sightreading Cards for Guitar are school/studio licensed, meaning you may make as many copies as you need. If you are a multi-teacher music studio, you may make copies for each teacher. If you are a school, you may make copies for each student, but we ask you refer your colleagues to purchase their own copy!
Click here for Set 1: Notes on String 1 - E, F, G
Click here for Set 2: Notes on String 2 - B, C, D
Click here for Set 3: Notes on Strings 1 and 2 - C, D, E, F, G
Sightreading Cards for Guitar Set 3
By ZS Music Publishing
Don't you think Guitar students should work on sight reading as well? Students struggling to read the treble staff or the TAB?
Sightreading Cards for Guitar SET 3 are two measure, bite-sized flash cards for you to use with students of any age and stage.
Set 3 uses notes on Strings 1 and 2: C, D, E, F, G. There are 24 cards included in set 3. The cards are perfect for a warm-up, activity transition, or for assessment; the options are limitless!
Sightreading Cards for Guitar are school/studio licensed, meaning you may make as many copies as you need. If you are a multi-teacher music studio, you may make copies for each teacher. If you are a school, you may make copies for each student, but we ask you refer your colleagues to purchase their own copy!
Click here for Set 1: Notes on String 1 - E, F, G
Click here for Set 2: Notes on String 2 - B, C, D
Click here for Set 3: Notes on Strings 1 and 2 - C, D, E, F, G
Sightreading Cards for Guitar Set 2
By ZS Music Publishing
Don't you think Guitar students should work on sight reading as well? Students struggling to read the treble staff or the TAB?
Sightreading Cards for Guitar SET 2 are two measure, bite-sized flash cards for you to use with students of any age and stage.
Set 2 uses notes on String 2: B, C and D. There are 24 cards included in set 2. The cards are perfect for a warm-up, activity transition, or for assessment; the options are limitless!
Sightreading Cards for Guitar are school/studio licensed, meaning you may make as many copies as you need. If you are a multi-teacher music studio, you may make copies for each teacher. If you are a school, you may make copies for each student, but we ask you refer your colleagues to purchase their own copy!
Click here for Set 1: Notes on String 1 - E, F, G
Click here for Set 2: Notes on String 2 - B, C, D
Click here for Set 3: Notes on Strings 1 and 2 - C, D, E, F, G
Sightreading Cards for Guitar Set 4
By ZS Music Publishing
Don't you think Guitar students should work on sight reading as well? Students struggling to read the treble staff or the TAB?
Sightreading Cards for Guitar SET 4 are two measure, bite-sized flash cards for you to use with students of any age and stage.
Set 4 uses notes on Strings 2 and 3: G-A-B-C. There are 24 cards included in set 4. The cards are perfect for a warm-up, activity transition, or for assessment; the options are limitless!
Sightreading Cards for Guitar are school/studio licensed, meaning you may make as many copies as you need. If you are a multi-teacher music studio, you may make copies for each teacher. If you are a school, you may make copies for each student, but we ask you refer your colleagues to purchase their own copy!
The FGA Songbook - Songs in TREBLE CLEF
By ZS Music Publishing
The FGA Songbook features 6 songs using the F-G-A keys on the piano, in the Treble Clef. These songs are perfect for when your students are learning the three notes, or starting to learn these notes on the treble clef. Some songs use mainly steps, and some use skips as well. You can also use this book for students to learn Skips and Steps, aurally and visually. You can also teach these songs by rote.
Songs included in this book are:
Note: this book is reproducible, so you can make as many copies as needed.
Zachary Seckman is an up-and-coming music teacher, composer, author, and conductor. He primarily teaches from his studio in Kansas on Piano, Drums and Percussion, Ukulele, and kids bands. When he is not teaching, Seckman is busy with composing and arranging music, conducting local community choirs, cooking, and playing video games.
Thank you for downloading this songbook and supporting a small business! You are welcome to duplicate this book for your students but you may not share with other teachers or schools/studios. You are more than welcome to direct others to buy their own copy of the book.