🍎 Music Teacher Grades 7 - 12 💜 Welcome! I’m Kim Maloney, creator of MusicTeacherResources. My objective is to provide you with a range of quality, classroom-ready resources. Resources for busy teachers who want the best for their students, and to spend more quality time with the people they love the most!
🍎 Music Teacher Grades 7 - 12 💜 Welcome! I’m Kim Maloney, creator of MusicTeacherResources. My objective is to provide you with a range of quality, classroom-ready resources. Resources for busy teachers who want the best for their students, and to spend more quality time with the people they love the most!
Help your students understand Stage Fright/Performance Anxiety
**what it is,
**why it happens and
**strategies to control it!
This is a 26 page PDF file focusing on Performance Anxiety or Stage Fright
The file:
Describes the mental, behavioral and physiological symptoms of stage fright.
Discusses Fear versus Adrenalin and how performance adrenaline is a necessary and positive part of performance.
Gives TEN easy to implement tips/strategies for reducing stage fright.
There are also FOUR worksheets and ONE written response page for students to record their individual responses to stage fright!
If students understand stage fright they will be more able to control it!
Musical Instruments - 47 beautifully presented posters of musical instruments from around the world.
World Instruments Word Wall Cards
This is a PDF file of 48 World Instruments Word Wall Cards
These bright and colorful Music Posters would be an excellent resource for your listening lessons and World Music unit.
PRINTABLE FORMAT
Enlarge and laminate to place in a your music room OR copy and distribute as an information handout to your students.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
One TITLE Card: Instruments of the World
Four (4) CATEGORY cards each in a different color:
* Aerophone (11 instrument cards)
* Chordophone (10 instrument cards)
* Idiophone (10 instrument cards)
* Membranophone (11 instrument cards)
Print off, laminate, and create a World Music Wall for your classroom!
Included on each card is the name of the instrument in bold, clear colorful letters, a picture of the instrument, the country the instrument is from and a colored border matching that of the category it belongs to i.e. all aerophones have a blue border.
A content packed, valuable resource that is complete and ready to go!
Suitable for: Years 3-6
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You may also like this Recorder Fingering Charts: Set 1
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Permission to copy for single classroom use only.
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**Begin the new year/term with a discussion on setting goals! **
Having the students write down their goal/s and how they plan to achieve them takes the goal/s out of the students’ heads and makes them REAL!
Place the completed page in the front of their class workbook.
Writing goals forces students to be specific and adds clarity to their thoughts.
Writing down our goals takes them from our thoughts to something more concrete and real!
This free resource supplies you with teaching slides and student response sheets!
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You may also like this Music Theory - MODULATION in MUSIC
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Guitar Trio for your Christmas Student Concert!
We Wish You A Merry Christmas Guitar Trio. This is a lovely arrangement of the popular Christmas song for a guitar trio.
This is an easy arrangement of the popular Christmas tune, this resource is arranged for a beginner - intermediate guitar trio and will be a wonderful addition to your teaching and concert repertoire.
This arrangement will help to build listening skills, rhythmic accuracy and general confidence in ensemble playing, which are essential to all musicians
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
Arrangement with standard notation and TAB
Arrangement with standard notation only
Part 1 only
Part 2 only
Part 3 only
HOW TO USE:
It is played through THREE times. The first time all play part 1, which is the melody.
The second time Part 1 and Part 2 play, and the third time all parts play. However, this is very flexible - you can enter the parts in any way you wish.
It is played through THREE times.
A content packed, valuable resource that is complete and ready to go!
This resource is suitable for all year levels and not grade-specific!
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You may also like this Christmas Music: Carol of the Bells Guitar Trio
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This arrangement of the well known Christmas tune 'It Came Upon a Midnight Clear' is for a guitar trio.
The chord symbols are included on the score so a fourth guitar or a piano accompaniment could be added if desired, making this a very flexible arrangement
NOTE: Copies of individual parts are not included in this file
The score includes guitar tablature as well as standard notation.
Jingle Bells Guitar Trio: easy guitar arrangement
This arrangement of the well known Christmas tune Jingle Bells is for a guitar trio.
It is the CHORUS only; not the verse and is 22 bars in total.
Parts 1 and 3 are very suitable for beginner guitarists.
Part 2 could be played by a more advanced student or you the teacher!
The chord symbols are included on the score so a fourth guitar or a piano accompaniment could be added if desired making the arrangement very flexible.
This is an excellent way to introduce and involve beginners in the joy of ensemble playing.
The zipped file includes:
-The arrangement with standard notation and TAB
-The arrangement in standard notation only
-Part 1
-Part 2
-Part 3
Good King Wenceslas: Easy Guitar Duo
This is an easy arrangement of the popular Christmas tune, for beginner guitar duo.
Part 1 has the melody
Part 2 plays a counter melody.
First time through the two parts are mostly playing note for note rhythm. On the second time through Part two is developed to contain 8th notes in the rhythm.
The zipped file contains:
-Arrangement with standard notation and TAB
-Arrangement with standard notation only
-Part 1 only
-Part 2 only
This arrangement will help to build listening skills, rhythmic accuracy and general confidence in ensemble playing, which are essential to all musicians.. and will be a great concert piece for the Christmas season.
Guitar Trio for your Christmas Student Concert!
Carol of the Bells - the beautiful Ukrainian Christmas Carol arranged for a guitar trio.
This is an easy arrangement of the popular Christmas tune, this resource is arranged for a beginner - intermediate guitar trio.
This arrangement will help to build listening skills, rhythmic accuracy and general confidence in ensemble playing, which are essential to all musicians
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
Arrangement with standard notation and TAB
Arrangement with standard notation only
Part 1 only
Part 2 only
Part 3 only
It will be a wonderful addition to your teaching and concert repertoire.
A content packed, valuable resource that is complete and ready to go!
This resource is suitable for all year levels and not grade-specific!
Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource!
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You may also like this Christmas Music Ensemble: Away in a Manger Guitar Trio
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Easy Guitar Trio
This is an easy arrangement of the popular Christmas tune, Away in a Manger is arranged for a beginner - intermediate guitar trio.
This arrangement will help to build listening skills, rhythmic accuracy and general confidence in ensemble playing, which are essential to all musicians
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
Arrangement with standard notation and TAB
Arrangement with standard notation only
Part 1 only
Part 2 only
Part 3 only
THE SCORE:
Part 1 has the melody
Part 2 is a harmony part with the same rhythm as the melody.
Part 3 is very simple - consisting of one note per bar except - towards the end where there is a bar containing three quarter notes.
*It will be a wonderful addition to your teaching repertoire. *
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You may also like this GUITAR in the CLASSROOM: Melody
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Rhythm and Meter - North American terminology
This PDF resource consists of 20 activity/worksheet pages with a Santa theme!
♦ There are TEN different Activity/worksheet pages.
♦ Each page is included in both black and white and color
♦ The black and white sheets can be used for individual work in the classroom or given as home revision.
♦ Students also have the option of coloring the page.
♦ The colored sheets are particularly good for whole class teaching/discussion/questioning. Project the slides for whole class viewing.
Students are ask to:
♦ Add up the beats and insert the correct meter.
♦ Create their own measure of rhythm according to the given meter.
♦ Clap the measures.
Music Worksheets: Music Math with a Santa Theme!
24 music worksheets aimed at reinforcing students’ understanding and knowledge of note and rest values.
Each music math worksheet has a SANTA image for the student to color.
The resource contains:
♦ TEN addition worksheets with an image to color and
♦ TEN subtraction worksheets with an image to color
♦ These worksheets vary in difficulty, so can be used with - different grade /ability levels
♦ There are also FOUR worksheets for students to create their own music math worksheets to share with their music peers/friends.
+++Have students create a music math worksheet to exchange with another student.
+++The student who created the worksheet is also the one who will correct the completed worksheet.
This is an excellent activity for higher order thinking!
This set contains 30 Music Coloring Glyphs!
Each page appears TWICE:
1. With music symbols and color code added for students to complete
2. As a template for the students (or you the teacher) to create your own Music Symbol Glyph
Concepts covered:
♫ Notes
♫ Rest
♫ Music symbols
♫ Treble staff pitch names
♫ Bass staff pitch names
♫ Dynamics
SIX THANKSGIVING MUSIC COMPOSITION ACTIVITIES
Have your students compose and perform their very own songs for THANKSGIVING!!
♦ This file contains SIX guided music compositions activities and
♦ Teacher Ideas and Suggestions.
♦ Each of the SIX music composition/song activities comes in TWO versions, color, which is perfect for you the teacher to project as you explain/model the activity AND black and white for the student to color while they wait for inspiration OR when they are completed their song!
♫ Students compose their very own THANKSGIVING song by choosing from the given bars/measures of rhythm with words and placing them in an order of their choosing.
♫ The more advanced students in your class can use the given measures/bars as a springboard for creating their own THANKSGIVING verse for their song and using the templates provided to notate their song!
♫ Students can only use the specified pitches in their music composition. This is specified for FIVE of the activities
♫♫ NOW INCLUDED is a song writing activity sheet where the pitches have NOT been specified. Teachers can use this sheet to draw the clef and pitches they have been working on in class.
Use this resource to develop/assess understanding of:
♦ Pitch
♦ Rhythm
♦ Words and rhythms
♦ Standard notation on the treble staff
Completed activities/songs can then be used for:
♦ A class concert
♦ A wall/bulletin board display for your music classroom
Thanksgiving Themed Rhythm Sheets
♦ This PDF file contains 35 rhythm sheets.
♦ The student is asked to count the number of beats in the boxes and writing the answer on a Thanksgiving related image.
♦ All images are black and white. Students can color the images to complete the sheets.
♦ The rhythms become progressively more difficult, allowing for extension work or for use with a range of abilities and grade levels.
Thanksgiving Rhythm Sheets - color
♦ This PDF file contains 35 rhythm sheets.
♦ The student is asked to count the number of beats in the boxes and writing the answer on a Thanksgiving related image.
♦ All images are color - excellent for projecting as a group/whole class activity.
♦ The rhythms become progressively more difficult, allowing for extension work or for use with a range of abilities and grade levels.
THANKSGIVING Themed Music Worksheets
Black and white version
This PDF file contains 24 worksheets covering the following music concepts:
1. Names of Notes and Rests (4 worksheets but TWO versions. One set using North American terminology and the other using British Terminology)
2. Treble Pitch
3. Bass Pitch
4. Alto Pitch
5. Music Signs and Symbols
This PDF file contains 24 worksheets covering the following music concepts:
1. Names of Notes and Rests (4 worksheets but TWO versions. One set using North American terminology and the other using British Terminology)
2. Treble Pitch
3. Bass Pitch
4. Alto Pitch
5. Music Signs and Symbols
This PDF file contains 30 pages: TWO x 15 page sets of Student Worksheets/Listening Journal pages.
The two sets are very similar with one being just a little more difficult to cater for older or more advanced students.
You can choose to use them as individually selected worksheets or combine them to create a Danse Macabre Listening Journal for each student
Suit Grades 1-4.
This PDF file contains:
♫ 20 question pages designed to reinforce students' knowledge of notes on the BASS staff.
♫ a student answer sheet
♫ answer sheet
Either print of sheets for individual/group work or display the question sheets to the whole class and have the students fill in their answers on the answer sheet!
Use this resource as:
♫ individual worksheets,
♫ centers
♫ homework,
♫ a quiz (quiz sheet and answers included) or as
♫ a whole class game!
These Halloween Worksheets are a fun and engaging activity to review TREBLE pitch note names during your Halloween Music Lessons. Also suitable for cover lessons.
PRINTABLE OR DIGITAL:
Choose Your Format - These activities come in 2 different formats.
PRINTABLE FORMAT
Print individual pages or the set to create a Halloween Treble Pitch Workbook
GOOGLE SLIDES
These activities can be assigned in Google Classroom or with a link. You can access the Easel version via your purchases page or the product listing page.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
20 TREBLE Pitch review worksheets are provided in the following version:
Printable (single pages, both colored and black & white)
Google slides
Task Cards
A student response/answer sheet in color and black & white
Teacher answer sheet - single page
20 colored answer sheets to project
Teacher Tips and Ideas page
Designed to reinforce students’ knowledge of and quick recognition of Note names on the TREBLE staff
TO ASSEMBLE TASK CARDS:
Print and cut along the guidelines.
Laminate and use them again and again.
Cards may also be printed on card stock.
Print sheets for individual/group work or display the question sheets to the whole class and have the students fill in their answers on the answer sheet!
Use this resource as:
Individual worksheets
Centres
Homework
A quiz (quiz sheet and answers included) or as,
A whole class game!