Aural training game for semitones and tones by Piano Comics
There is a piece I like to teach to young piano beginners, even preschoolers, called ‘I want ice-cream’ . It uses 3 consecutive notes up and down and the lyrics help kids memorize the piano keys as well because… who doesn’t want to eat all those sweets and sing ( so of cour
‘Music notes are the alphabet and chords are words’ by Piano Comics
When I start teaching intervals and chords in my piano and music theory classes I want kids to feel the importance and richness of the harmony that chords create. Chords are not just an addition to our piano scales or a new exercise on our score sheet. It is the beginning of understanding what harmo
‘Little Bunny’ by Piano Comics a piece to train tempos, dynamics, articulation and major-minor aural skills
‘Little Bunny’ is a piece by Piano Comics that I created for my preschooler beginners and transcribed it for late beginners as well ( students learning piano for over a year ) . Here you can watch me and a 7 year old student playing it and at the end of this post you can […]
‘Spiky woke up feeling grumpy’ by Piano Comics for piano preschoolers
‘Spiky woke up feeling grumpy’ is a new song for piano preschoolers. There are 2 score versions: the 1st one is the original ( for the teacher to play or students at intermediate piano levels) just for the young piano beginners to sing and a 2nd version where even preschoolers can play i
‘School Again’ an easy piano piece for preschoolers to learn dynamics by Piano Comics
‘School Again’ is a song I created for a 4 year old and a 5 year old student. It uses 3 consecutive keys , do, re, mi ( c, d, e ). I usually use these 3 keys so that the kids start noticing the different patterns of 2 black keys and 3 black keys. […]
‘Lady Bug’ a song for piano preschoolers by Piano Comics
This cute, short, easy peasy little song called ‘Lady Bug’ can be taught to preschoolers and older piano students. It teaches forte, piano, allegro and adagio as the Lady Bug is being loud and carefree in the beginning but not so joyfull in the end. It also trains the ear to major and mi
A matching game to learn the dynamics in music by Piano Comics
When I want my piano beginners, especially younger ages and preschoolers, to learn a new music term or principle I always try to find examples from everyday life and demonstrate it. It’s not enough for me to just show it on the piano. Yes, piano means soft, quiet and I can play soft and quiet
Have fun learning music theory with ‘Workbook Sheet Music’ for piano beginners by Piano Comics
Need a light, fun break in between regular piano practice, scales, etudes and repertoire or exam pieces? Use the games and fun activities from ‘Workbook Sheet Music’ for piano beginners by Piano Comics. This 64 page digital material teaches basic music theory principles such as dynamics,
When piano students practice during holidays whitout even realising it! Free fun worksheets by Piano Comics
When holidays approach, especially after concerts, the only thing that we as piano teachers desire is to rest. But we always will give some holiday homework with the hope that our students will practice a bit. And since we too need the rest, making the time and energy to prepare new music sheets, ga
‘The Magic Shark’ a song for preschoolers about coordination of finger counting by Piano Comics
I have a 4 year old student that loves sharks. So I transcribed the song ‘5 fingers’ to ‘The Magic Shark’ so that he can concentrate and play with it. The original song is from a very creative educator I found on tik tok, she has all the social channels, here is her instagram
