Internet Resources

Hello Parents!

This week I simply would like to share a few internet resources that I have come across that may be of help.

Here is a simple, yet effective online game/drill for practicing reading notes:
http://www.emusictheory.com/practice/pianoKeys.html
If you are getting bored of flashcards, try this out! Offer your child a reward if he or she can get a score of 30 notes completed with at least a 90% score with an average time of 5.0 seconds or less. You can go into "settings" and turn off ledger line notes if that is making it too hard.

If you want to have more flexibility with which notes you are working on, try this online note reading game:
http://musictheory.net/trainers/html/id82_en.html
In "Settings" you can choose what range of notes to practice, and which clef.

Another game for practicing note names with the added challenge of having the notes scroll across the screen. You have to identify the note before it disappears.
http://www.emusictheory.com/practice/speedNoteNames.html

A game for practicing performing rhythms (go into settings to adjust the difficulty):
http://www.emusictheory.com/practice/rhythmPerf.html

A game for doing rhythm dictation:
http://www.emusictheory.com/practice/rhythmDict.html

Here is a fun site created by the San Francisco Symphony with many interactive features to help kids explore music. For example, students can try their hand at "composing" by arranging melodic fragments in whatever sequence they want, then they get to hear the results played back to them. There are many other fun learning activities here.
http://www.sfskids.org//templates/musiclab.asp?pageid=4

The New York Philharmonic also has some fun music games, I especially enjoy the "Minuet Mixer".
http://www.nyphilkids.org/games/main.phtml?

Here is some software you can download for $10 which enables you to notate and print your own original music. This could be very fun for young composers.
http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/

If you know of other good Internet resources for piano students, please share!

Happy Practicing!