Big Dog Boogie

My First Piano Adventures Book B students are all playing, or have played, Tucker's Secret Life.This big dog boogie is a big hit in my studio. 

 What a great way to introduce the next rhythm pattern I want to highlight. CBAGFE will get much attention as we find different ways to drill this group of notes.Using the white board on my I-Pad, we locate and draw the CBA. The stylus makes drawing so much easier. Thanks Pianoanne for the heads up.

 Next we drill with Note Goal Pro on the I-Pad which has added a new tutor option of showing notes in sequence.

Then with some weeks on seeing these notes as steps we will practice them on Note Squish.

The great sequential lesson book and my added enrichment is making better progress than ever before.

2nd Most Used I-Pad App

   My second favorite I-Pad app is called Note Squish. It is a note reading tool and it is unique because of it uses groundhogs to interact with.

Letter names appear over animals who come out of the their holes. They must touch the right letter to match the note on the staff above. The groundhogs come and go and at times the correct letter is not on the screen so the student cannot guess by touching them all. The background music is fun and if it is annoying it can be muted.

I like the versatility in that I can choose which notes to drill and how many notes to drill,

This is the set-up page. Notice the speed can also be adjusted.

My students love it and it is small finger friendly.