John Bisceglia's FREE Piano Teaching Materials

Welcome Piano Teachers!

johnbisceglia — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:21:24 +0000

Howdy. Check out the WIDGET on the right for PDFs you may find useful. You will need to put your cursor (mouse) on the downward arrow at the bottom of the BOX to see all 100 files; only the first 5 are showing.

Click on the TABLE OF CONTENTS above for an idea of what is here.

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Tagged: Ear Training, Music Games, Piano Studio, piano teaching, Technique, Theory

johnbisceglia — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:18:59 +0000

A new page has appeared above…..I’ve finally got around to doing this:

An actual

Table Of Contents!

Tagged: arpeggios, Beginning Piano, Berens, cadences, Catherine Rollin, Children, Chopsticks, ELEMENTARY TECHNIQUE, Free Piano Teaching Materials, FREE!, Gurlitt, Hal Leonard Student Piano Library, HLSPL, INTERMEDIATE TECHNIQUE, John Bisceglia, Kohler, Kunz, Melodic Flashcards, Music Education, Pathways to Artistry, Piano Lessons, Piano Student, Piano Studio, piano teaching, Piano teaching resources, Piano Technique, Piano Theory, rhythm flashcards, scales, SIGHT-SINGING & SIGHT-PLAYING, Teaching Music

Touch Training

johnbisceglia — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:12:40 +0000

Well, I have one whole student now, so he is “inspiring me” to create out of need. And boy, does he needs to be able to find the Five C Grand Staff Landmarks by touch, so this is what I’ve been doing tonight:

Lights Out! – A Feel and Find Game for Pianists. Have Fun!

O.M.G. I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NEW STUFF! – (it’s really just old dusty things I found)

johnbisceglia — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:14:42 +0000

I added some pages of some “classic” piano-teaching stuff by Kunz, Gurlitt, Kohler, and Berens. The Kunz may be worth checking out for some first experiences playing canons (also see the PRIMO and SECONDO pages for some very short exercises in ensemble playing for your new readers).

For those using Musikgarten’s group piano course “Music Makers – At The Keyboard” (MMK), here are some new pages that I made specifically for young hands that were not ready for 3-note chords. There are also replacement cards for when you (inevitably) lose one of the melody or rhythm cards. Arghhhh….

Even if you do not use this particular course, the familiar folk songs and composing sheets may be useful in your piano studio.

RE-RUNS – These have been here for a while, but if you want a fun, very-adaptable theory game for group classes check out “A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS”, and if you want to begin making your OWN materials, look for the ZIP file “FONTS FOR TEACHERS” – I made it for the reluctant creator in you!

3 Relay Races

johnbisceglia — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:33:37 +0000

I added 3 more PDF’s for students who need practice with 1-octave major scales – HS.

I like the feeling of dropping arm weight on beat 1, and ending with a rotation on beat 4. I guess I like “technic/etudes/stuff” to FEEL GOOD PHYSICALLY. And fun.

BTW – I really like keeping most of my materials “plain”, so teachers can add dynamics, fingerings, and mark as needed for each particular student.

Some of my preschool materials also look “plain” on purpose, as I constantly use different colored crayons to bring the piece alive on the bench, and also to allow the child to color/draw, and personalize the page when appropriate. A common question,

“What’s you favorite color”

“Blue”

“I like blue too! You can see blue colors in the ocean and in the sky. Now watch for the blue eyeballs – they mean to LOOK AHEAD!”

(or draw arrows for note direction, lightly shade dynamics, etc.)

Tagged: 1-octave major scales, major scales, scales