reading notes

Here ya go folks! There are 2 versions. One with and one without G and F. Scroll down to see the other one. (You may want to draw the C ledger lines a bit longer with a felt tip.) Keyboard-staff-landmark-notes Original discussion started October 4, 2022  

• Last updated 2 years ago
• location, location points, reading notes, RN

In the Reading Notes program, how are students supposed to decode Low C-1 and Low C-2 (pp 18-19) when they haven’t yet learned the location points of bass C and middle C? They’re not decoding it so much as recognizing it. You tell them what…

• Last updated 4 years ago
• high c, high c - 1, high c - 2, interval streams, intervallic, intervallic reading, intervals, location points, low c, low c - 1, low c - 2, note reading, playlist for reading, reading notes, reading pieces, RN, RN streams

Reading Notes – I have a couple of students currently, one senior and one middle school age, who seem to struggle with grasping the intervallic note reading process. Sometimes I wonder if it would be easier for certain students to learn note reading the old-fashioned…

• Last updated 4 years ago
• bass, bass F, clef symbols, clefs, expectation, expectations, identifying notes on keyboard, identifying notes on piano, identifying notes on staff, identifying written notes, interval streams, intervallic, intervallic reading, intervals, introducing reading notes, Laurie Richards, learning note names, location points, managing expectations, naming notes, note names, note naming, note reading, notes, Placing Intervals, reading expectations, reading notes, RN, RN streams, staff, streams, talking about expectations, teaching streams, transcribing, transcribing notes, transcribing Reading Notes, treble, treble G

Transcription projects in Reading Notes: are you just having them write notes on a staff as you verbalize different intervals? Do you start having them identify note names as they figure out intervals? Other ways to do transcription projects with notes? Yes Jen they write…

• Last updated 5 years ago
• Gordon Harvey, identifying notes on staff, identifying written notes, interval streams, intervallic, intervallic reading, intervals, introducing reading notes, Laurie Richards, learning note names, naming notes, note names, note naming, note reading, notes, pace of reading program, Placing Intervals, reading, reading notes, reading process, reading program, RN streams, streams, teaching streams, transcribing, transcribing notes, transcribing Reading Notes, transcription

I have a class of three students in Time for More Music. We are at Gray. Two students are comfortable taking on the reading in each step, and understanding scale journey, and I’ve kept the projects moving a bit at a time with discussions. One…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• Laurie Richards, reading, reading notes, reading strategies, student faking it, student not really reading, tfmm, Time for More Music

Is there a point in the reading notes process where you let the students use the music books from foundation levels that they already know, to practice reading notes/intervals? With each Location Point learned, you point students to Music Book examples that use the notes…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• intervals, Laurie Richards, music books, reading, reading notes, reverse engineering, using music books

I have an adult student who has been taking lessons with me for about 4+ years. We are still doing playing based instruction, but she is into the reading program and has reading projects. Her playing is very halting. Think of a first grader reading…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• Laurie Richards, playing fluently, reading, reading fluently, reading notes

I’d appreciate your advice as I move two of my students into the conclusion of the Reading Notes program. At the end of the book, it mentions the importance of identifying note names. Does anyone revert to the easy way to remember notes on the…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• EGBDF, FACE, identifying notes on staff, intervallic reading, intervals, Laurie Richards, location points, reading notes, sight reading

Once a student has started Reading Notes, should they continue to do rhythm projects every week (transcribing) or do they switch over to Reading Notes projects? It seems like a lot to have a weekly Rhythm project in addition to a weekly Notes project, but…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• continuing RR projects, Laurie Richards, Read n play, reading notes, reading rhythm, RN, RR, RR practice

When doing the Streams projects in Reading Notes, how do you explain how to start each line? In the Streams up to 3rds, the first line starts on finger 1 and is easy to figure out on the piano. But the rest of the line…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• hand positioning, Laurie Richards, reading notes, RN, RN streams, streams