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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 5 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 5 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

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 7 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 7 years ago
• hand positioning, Laurie Richards, reading notes, RN, RN streams, streams

I’m working through the Reading Notes program for the first time and I just introduced the Ladder and Race conversations. On page 5 of the Reference Book, the Streams page alternates between treble and bass clefs. I haven’t introduced clefs yet. Do you have students…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• clef symbols, clefs, masters of the rhythm, MORs, reading notes, reading rhythm, RN, RN streams, RR

My first student is at the end of Reading Rhythm! Question: for the student, dotted notes and ties aren’t as confident as I wish they’d be. What would you do in this case (he has no trouble with rests)? Would you move on anyway to…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• dots, dotted notes, Laurie Richards, masters of the rhythm, MORs, reading notes, reading rhythm, RN, RR, RR mastery, tied notes, ties

I have a brother/sister shared lesson who can read music (although not confidently) and I’ve just assigned their first MOR. Next would be to ask them to take the rhythms to the keys over 5SS. Being that they can read music, would you still do…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• 5 steps of sound, 5SS, Laurie Richards, masters of the rhythm, mor, reading notes, reading rhythm, rhythm tracks, RN, RR, tfmm, Time for More Music

I need some help in teaching the Reading Rhythm course. I am beginning my second year with Simply Music and I love it. Now it’s time to start several students into RR. One student is an adult, played in the school band, and is familiar…

• Last updated 8 years ago
• reading notes, reading rhythm, RN, Robin Keehn, RR, students with prior experience

I need some reading advice please. Ellen has been with me for 7 years – a hardworking teenager. Getting started in a reading piece is the issue. Once she’s off and running, she gets all the reading strategies she’s been taught in an applied way.…

• Last updated 8 years ago
• accompaniment, Laurie Richards, leger lines, location points, middle C, reading notes, RN, visual learners