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Camp Curriculums
These resources feature daily lessos plans—all the planning has been done for you!
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.
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.
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.
Pura Vida! is a piano camp for 8 to 14-year-old students with 8 lesson plans, 5 piano student books, music exploration and discovery, improvisation, and games.
It is flexible enough to adapt for private lessons and weekly group piano lessons.
This piano camp is for 4-7-year-old students who are just beginning their musical journey. The teacher guide includes 8 lesson plans with step-by-step instructions, a schedule, music lessons, piano lessons, and games.
A version of this piano camp is also available for ages 8-14.
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Camp Supplements
These resources can be used as supplements to your camp plans or easily turned into a camp with a little innovation on your part!
A planning resource you’ll value and reference for years to come.
Get a complimentary copy of “Technical Difficulties Made Easier” with your purchase!
Step-by-step instructions, must-have resources, videos, photos and spreadsheets shared by Marie Lee, group teaching expert.
Pete, the Pitch Profiler worksheets help students spell chords and identify how a pitch functions within chords.
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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!
This resource includes visual aids and games to boost and fortify rhythmic understanding in students of all ages.
Innovative, tech-savvy and engaging activities for you to implement immediately into private or group lessons on and off the bench.
Colorful and versatile infographics that link music styles and composers of the past with happenings, food and fashion of the times.
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.
Explore the moods, tones and colors of music with your students using this colorful and engaging activities.
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.
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.
Use and modify pre-made digital badge boards to track progress in playing pentascales and scales.
Turn your students into artistic players through the power of imagination with a little help from a magical queen and some superheroes.
BONUS! Winter games digital badge board is included with your purchase!
A flipped classroom and blended learning approach that motivates kids to learn theory concepts.
An interactive way for your students to step back in time and connect with music styles and composers of the past.
A flipped classroom approach that motivates kids to orbit around the sun while they complete 3 missions and master five finger patterns and one-octave major scales.
This bundle includes heaps of ways to practice drawing note values, landmark notes, scales, key signatures, stems, circle of keys and even counting. No mindless, busywork, just downloadable PDFS that empower students to rock their theory!
An organized way to present music theory using Google Slides and fun activities, with some science mixed in!
I-88 is a freeway to improvisation. Simply borrow a short section of a favorite piece. The set of improvisation cards encourages pianists to change up one music element at a time. In minutes, something borrowed becomes something original!
A flipped classroom and blended learning approach that motivates kids to learn theory concepts.
This colorful village of animals is designed to help your students master key names.
This colorful village of animals is designed to help your students master solfege and hand signs
A flipped classroom approach that motivates kids to orbit around the sun while they master two-octave major scales. Use this AFTER completing the three missions in Cosmic Scale Challenge found here.
Practice leads to progress—and progress fuels motivation.
Discover 28 creative strategies that help students practice smarter, not longer.
Ready to turn your students into practicers? Practice Skill Builder includes a video to educate rookie practicers, a guide to help them develop strong practice habits and an NBA-inspired practice strategy that promises progress.
Use and modify digital or printable badge boards to track progress for a 30-piece challenge while celebrating the diverse cultures and music of 30 countries.
This 12-page resource will help you feel organized and efficient when planning games and apps for your studio.
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Grab games and graphics to make your camp a smash.
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.