I came across a fun game for Preschool piano players! You may want to visit my WunderKeys Pinterest Board for additional resources. This particular game caught my eye because it's a familiar story, Five Little Monkeys! It's called, High and Low Game.
This upcoming week in the New Year I'll be sharing with my 3 to 5-year-old piano students High and Low Tones. For adults, it's an easy concept to play high melody tones with the right hand above Middle C. It's obvious to us that our left hand will grab chords and yes, sometimes single notes in the bass below Middle C.
Free single-staff version of NotateMe - the ground-breaking music
composition and music notation software from Neuratron, with handwriting
recognition plus PhotoScore Now printed sheet music capture (using your
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- Featuring powerful handwritten music recognition
- quickly and accurately enter music notation with your finger or
stylus, on a tablet or smartphone.
- Write music on the train, in a plane, by a lake, or just sitting comfortably on your sofa!
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Simple, intuitive interface with little to distract you from your
creativity - similar to writing with pen and paper, but with instant
playback, editing and a printable score at the end!
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PhotoScore Now - A free 1-staff version of the PhotoScore Add-In (In-App
Purchase) for full NotateMe. Take photos of printed sheet music with
your device's camera, so you can play back and edit them with NotateMe
Now! Recognizes 5-line staves and most markings including chords, flags,
beams, rests, accidentals, articulation marks, clefs, key signatures,
time signatures, tuplets, slurs, ties, hairpins and text including
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- Great when learning or teaching music notation.
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Email MusicXML and MIDI files of your scores to friends or other
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NotateMe Now recognizes a wide range of music notation symbols,
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If NotateMe Now doesn’t recognize your style immediately, keep at it,
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Review
This is an awesome tool for teaching music notation and is loaded with lots of cool stuff. Upon opening the program, you can accurately enter notations with your finger or stylus on your tablet or iPhone. If you don't have a stylus, I'm pretty sure you can get one at Fry's for little cost.
The app is nicely laid out, as well as user-friendly. I found the software easy to understand and very effective. You'll find that bar lines, time signatures, clefs and triplets can be added automatically. There are many dynamics to choose from. Plus, you can email your files to friends, students and other musicians.
There's a good selection of activities and you can customize it to fit your needs. Check out the requirements, here and download NotateMe Now - Neuratron Ltd. I'm very pleased with it and give it 5 stars! If you'd like a glimpse of what it's all about, here's a video presentation.
Record your music! Capture your practice, songs you’re writing, or anything else, and
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You can search any song and get the lyrics and chords for it. This application is a mobile songbook and notation book. It allows you to read the lyrics, chords and the music score. (Free)
This application isn’t really a calculator, but like a calculator, it
does help to make figuring things out a little bit faster. Packed with
the names of scales, chords, and intervals, this app is a must-have
reference tool for any learner. Music Theory Calculator plays and displays note names for scales,
chords, and intervals. Much like an ordinary calculator speeds up math,
Music Theory Calculator speeds up the process of making music. Use it to
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Scales & Modes is an interactive visual and audio reference for the
diatonic scales and modes that are fundamental in music theory. View
major and minor modes on the musical staff, see fingerings for both
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Violin and bass guitar fingerings are also available as an in app. Both major and the minor scales are explained in detail for a thorough understanding of using them in a modal context. This interactive visual and audio reference tool is perfect for learning
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Improve your piano note reading skills with this educational music game.
This simple game challenges you to correctly identify notes in the
treble and bass clefs as quickly as you can. A great game for anyone
learning to read music. This musical training game helps aspiring pianists improve their
note-reading skills by challenging them to correctly identify notes as
quickly as possible. ($3.99)
For playing the piano you need to know what keys you should press and how they are named. This application can be a great introduction to learning piano. It
features lessons on note names, piano key names and locations, note
representations on sheet music, and ear training. ($2.99)
Tenuto is a collection of thirteen customizable exercises designed to
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includes five musical calculators for accidentals, intervals, chords,
analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices. Use the 12 customizable exercises in this app to practice and enhance
your musical abilities, from learning the keys on a piano to recognizing
chords. ($3.99)
Play By Ear is a call-and-response ear training application that helps
you develop the ability to hear pitches and play them back on your
instrument by ear. Unlike other applications which force you to press
buttons to indicate the notes you've heard, Play By Ear uses pitch
recognition so you can play the notes back on your instrument. Help give yourself the ears of a musician by trying out this ear
training app. It offers call-and-response training that will help you
develop your ability to understand and play any music you hear. (Free)
A portable Solfège practice partner! Develop pitch recognition, memory,
and transcription ability by repeating musical phrases. Take advantage
of spare moments to brush up on your music theory and transcription
skills! Here you’ll find another ear training app, which can help musical
novices with the recognition, memory, and transcription of different
pitches. ($4.99)
"If you have always wanted to be able to read music or you are studying
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can help to build that ability, testing and motivating note-learning on
a piano. ($.99)
A must-have for young children to learn piano notes. Young music learners will love this application that makes learning notes fun through games, colors, and feedback. ($1.99)
The online mode BATTLE ARENA!
Connecting via a network, you can play against 4 people on a piano battle! This application is similar to Rock Band or Guitar Hero in that it
challenges users to play a selected song as notes come up on the screen.
Users can even play against each other to really test their skills. (Free)
Also, if you are a singer and want to improve on your vocals, my friends over at Hear and Play are offering a great sale on Vocal Mastery System. You might want to check this out.
I love teaching beginners, young children, and adults. I offer piano lessons for ages 3-103 and all levels from primer to advanced. We have a blast with piano games, playing duets, learning songs and theory.
I offer private and group lessons. I am a WunderKeys piano teacher for preschoolers, 3-years-old to Kindergarten. We have 2 recitals, Fall and Spring.
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Billie
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