The Baroque period is a treasure chest of legendary composers and keyboard repertoire but, students usually don’t ask to play the music from the powdered-wig style.

Go Baroque will change that with engaging activities to spark curiosity, mastery and creativity.

Step-by-step instructions, must-have resources, videos, photos and spreadsheets shared by Marie Lee, group teaching expert.

Inspector Whiz Cards offers a deck of cards and instructions for playing at least a TEN games of guaranteed fun. Watch your students gain confidence as they dig deeper into the landscape of the grand staff and become friends with all 88 pitches!

Bucket drumming is THE perfect solution or supplement for your holiday or summer camps, group and private lessons.

Get buckets full of tips and ideas so that you can learn how to teach bucket drumming in style. With the help of over 80 “recipe cards,” integrate bucket drumming into any of your current plans with pedagogically sound and guaranteed-to-rock activities.

Pete, the Pitch Profiler worksheets help students spell chords and identify how a pitch functions within chords.

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This catalog of “spooky puzzle pieces” promises to spark creativity beyond the page. After your students choose a favorite “creepy” idea or two, they will be equipped to design their own Halloween hit! BONUS: it now comes with its prequel—Twinkle Treat!

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This best-seller needed an update and it’s finally completed.

The resource is a plan for you to implement immediately into your tech-savvy studio.

Do you need app assignments to reinforce rhythm?

How about ideas for off-bench fun that will build rhythmic security?

Rhythm Make it Count is the resource for you!

Do your students struggle to understand the duration of note values? Here’s a game that I created for my own group lessons and it was a winner. I believe it will be for your studio, too!

This resource includes visual aids and games to boost and fortify rhythmic understanding in students of all ages.

This regal-looking set of flashcards and companion instructions will help your students master intervals because it’s a step above your typical flashcard card deck!

Innovative, tech-savvy and engaging activities for you to implement immediately into private or group lessons on and off the bench.

A fast-paced card game that builds confidence in recognizing and adding note values.

Dive into the nitty gritty of the tune sung at every birthday party and mine it for unforgettable teaching moments. The colorful resource for private or group instruction is packed with plans to help students master an original arrangement. It features curriculum for at least four camp days, 2-6 hours each.

Explore and create with hip harmonies and pop-inspired patterns that ignite imaginations.

Loads of ideas!

Writing a good melody can be mysterious and that’s why we are thrilled to offer you this unprecedented 48-page resource to shed light on this area of creative music making. Packed full of melody-writing ideas organized into a hierarchy of importance, perhaps the best thing about it are that 15+ worksheets to equip you or your students with the practical skills to improvise and compose strong melodies.

The grand staff is a map that provides location and direction of pitches. The problem for piano students is that there are only 7 pitch names but 88 keys! The grand staff grid may look more like a maze rather than a map for early readers.

That’s why I give specific names to important pitches or landmark notes.

This package of digital downloads helps your students correlate landmarks, their names and locations on the staff with their location on the keyboard.

As students gather information about time periods or composers, let them show what they know by creating a one page report.

Plenty of information for your students’ one page reports can be found in the Music History Infographics.

Here’s a recipe for built-in success with occasions for creative decision making along the way.

 Some of the best cookies I’ve ever tasted had few ingredients: flour, sugar, vanilla and lots of butter. It doesn’t take much to make a really good cookie. That being said, I’m not opposed to chocolate chips, oatmeal, sprinkles, molasses, cinnamon, frosting, butterscotch chips or peanut butter added to a cookie, just not all at once.

The point being, a good cookie starts with a few quality ingredients with maybe a few extras for flair and flavor. The same is true with composing. A good composition starts with a few quality ingredients or elements. Extra touches add variety and contrast.

The Cookie Cutter Composing Resource gives you all the necessary ingredients to inspire composers in private and group settings.

Flip The Lid is a piano camp curriculum targeting beginning students up to early intermediate skills.  It is unique because it allows you to combine students of different ages and skills in one class.

The title,  Flip The Lid is in no way referring to losing control or being angry. It is about opening up the lid of the piano to discover how to make new sounds and the minuscule details that make up this beautiful instrument.

Round One includes three escape room games for early level recognition of pitch recognition and note values.

Round Two includes three escape room games for early levels recognition of pitch recognition and note values.

Round Three includes three escape room games for early levels pitch recognition.

ONE game with 12 questions. Ideal for Off Bench Time or a LONGER group activity.

Round Four includes three escape room games for mid level theory.

ONE game with 16 questions. Ideal for Off Bench Time or a LONGER group activity.

Includes questions about Am, Dm and Em minor scales and the three forms of minor. The National Federation of Music Club’s latest bulletin does not include minor scales until Level 7, however, most students encounter minor keys in their repertoire soon after lessons begin! So, this game is geared towards those who need to master or review concepts related to a limited amount of minor scales. 

BONUS: when you purchase this game, you'll also receive links to a tutorial video and customized drills to prep players before they play the game!

Round Five includes three escape room games about intervals.

Here’s 50 ways to use just the app called Decide Now. It’s one of the most versatile apps around!

ONE game with 19 questions. Ideal for Off Bench Time or a LONGER group activity.

The game test skills on the most popular chords and progressions and cadences within the keys of C, F, G, D, A and E. Students must recognize the "anatomy" of single chords and also how chords work together to form pleasing patterns.

There are seven species of sea turtles in the oceans of the world just like there are seven scale tones on which chords can be built. These ancient reptiles, which have been around since the age of the dinosaurs, are here to serve up a challenge for your students! 

BONUS: when you purchase this game, you'll also receive links to a tutorial video and customized drills to prep players before they play the game!

Round Six includes three escape room games focusing on the C, G and F major scales.