5. Staff and Notes

  • Learn the grand staff and single staves 
  • Learn clefs (treble, bass, alto and tenor) as moveable and fixed
  • Learn the difference between lines, spaces and ledger lines
  • Learn the clef notes, G, F and C
  • Learn the symmetrical five C’s on the grand staff and keyboard, both treble and bass clefs
  • Relate the C’s to the piano and/or student’s instrument
  • Learn the concept of intervals
  • Become fast at locating the five C’s
  • Learn the Grand Nine (all grand staff notes are either a 2nd or 3rd away from these nine notes)
  • Learn the open strings on the staff and how they relate to the instrument (string players)

 

SN-1 "I'm a Note" Lines and Spaces

SN-2 Raindrops – Lines and Spaces

SN-3 "Hello Grand Staff"

SN-4 Tracing Clefs – GGG and FFF

SN-5 "I'm a Note" Clef Notes G and F

SN-6 Mickey Ears

SN-7 Step Up, Step Down

SN-8 Tracing Clefs – Alto and Tenor Clefs

SN-9 Eye Spy – Clef Notes G, F, and C

SN-10 These Five C's / 10a. Play or Pass – 5 C's

SN-11 "I'm a Note" Five C's, G, and F

SN-12 Trade the C's

SN-13 Grand Staff Cards C's

SN-14 Madrid Match – Five C's

SN-15 Slap the C's 

SN-16 We're the Grand Nine

SN-17 Raindrops – Grand Nine

Instrument Specific Games

S-1 Open Strings

S-2 Tap Tap Pluck Pluck

P-1 Chance Match – Piano Grand Nine