Music flashcards help teach note names, technical names and those dreaded Italian terms!

Dear Music Teaching Friend,

I remember the first students I took through examinations – I remember it like it was yesterday!
We worked really hard on the pieces, the scales and technical work and we knew all the aural exercises the student needed to do. I remember looking through the exam syllabus thinking “I’d better check the students general knowledge”, so in the last lesson I pointed to a note and said:

“what kind of note is that?”
I was expecting to hear “That’s a crotchet”, or “That’s a quarter note”
I just got back a blank look.
“What’s the rhythm name?“ I said
“What’s a rhythm name?” I got back
“Its time name“ I said
“What’s a time name?”

Whoops! I think something’s been missed somewhere in this student’s education! Of course I spent an extra hour or so with this particular student and they got through alright, but it taught me a very valuable lesson about how students learn.

I could of course blame their theory teaching, the school system or the parents… but I can’t do that. The student needs to know these things, and it is my responsibility to make sure that they know it.

I then started using flashcards in my lessons. I just made some simple ones that matched the various notes and symbols that the children needed to know for their exams.

It became a game – I simply showed them each card, and they had to answer within two seconds or they’d lose a point. It was great fun, even for older children who I thought would be past games. They loved it, and it was part of the routine. It took less than one minute per lesson to quickly run through five or six general knowledge concepts that they had to know, and it resulted in them always getting 100% in the general knowledge section of their exams.

My flashcards were pretty primitive – I simply wrote the symbols on pieces of card and covered them with clear plastic.

When I married my husband we started creating our own flashcards on the computer. My husband also taught theory, so we developed hundreds of different cards that suited the various teaching situations.

Introducing:

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You might think “Wouldn’t it be better to get them pre-printed?”

If you got cards pre-printed you’d have to worry about losing them – the box would end up looking pretty tired and used and you’d have to constantly sort through a whole heap of cards that you might never use.

Just think – Wouldn’t it be great if you could go to your computer and print out exactly the set of flashcards you needed for a particular student, and you can pop a rubber band around them and keep them for just this student?

Then, next time you see this student you’ve got their flashcards all ready for them.

Alternatively you can print out all the cards and organize them into your grade or examination levels that you need. That way, whenever you have a student doing a particular grade you can pull out the appropriate set.

Its impossible to do this with a pre-printed set of cards, as there is likely only one or two of each card!, not enough for each grade to have everything.

Of course you might think to yourself “I can make these cards myself – I just need to find the clipart on the internet and lay them out on my computer”

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I really want you to make it fun for your students to learn their general knowledge, and you can do with flashcards like these!