Tracing Through Theory

Tracing Through Theory uses simple instructions, diagrams and easy tracing exercises to help young, beginner piano students understand and decipher music notation and theory. These lessons will enable them to more easily learn how to read and play music.

Volume One teaches the basic and most common components of the grand staff. The grand staff is used to read music. Without an understanding of the grand staff, the beginner music student-whether their instrument is the piano, digital keyboards or organ-will find it difficult to adequately progress in their music studies.

Tracing Through Theory-Volume One: The Grand Staff uses eleven, easy lessons to teach students how to recognize and identify the symbols and elements of the grand staff including:

• Horizontal and vertical lines
• Treble and bass clef signs
• Music staff Bar lines
• Measures Brace
• Treble clef Bass clef
• Ledger lines Whole note
• Line notes and space notes
• Notes, keys, and keyboards

Each lesson introduces a single musical concept about the grand staff. As the student progresses through the book, each subsequent lesson and worksheet builds upon previous concepts-an easy and effective way to learn how to read music.

The student reads the short (one-page) lesson and completes the worksheet. Worksheets employ multiple-choice and true/false questions, diagrams, and tracing exercises. Extra worksheets are included to learn how to trace the treble clef, bass clef and identify the two groups of black keys on the keyboard.

Acombination of oral instruction, visual diagrams and tracing over the elements of musical notation and concepts have proven to teach students as young as five-years-old the basics of music theory. By following the simple, clear directions the student (and teacher ) will be surprised how easily children can learn the language of music.