Need a music theory quiz for your elementary music classroom? Look no further! This engaging worksheet, adorned with animal icons, allows you to easily assess your students’ understanding of six commonly used tempo terms.
The tempo terms that will be tested in this music theory worksheet are:
Presto
Allegro
Andante
Moderato
Adagio
Largo
About the Creator/Author
Andrew Fling was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1963. As a child he played clarinet and trumpet in the school band. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory and Composition and K-12 Music Education Certification at Arizona State University. He has shared his love of music over the years by teaching kids in Christian and public schools, through private lessons, and presently through MakingMusicFun.net which he founded in 2007. He is known for creating music education resources that make learning fun, and for original compositions and arrangements of masterworks that cater to beginning and intermediate students. Every arrangement is carefully written to preserve the original work, while making the music accessible and enjoyable for students of all levels.
Wondering how to get kids easily learn music theory? Here’s a fun Beginner Music Note Name Worksheets called Alien Cow Snatchers. Let their curiosity guide learning, embrace the wonders of music theory, and embark on an exciting journey of musical discovery! You can also browse MakingMusicFun.net if you are looking for more music theory lessons and activities.
Calling all young musicians! We have an important mission that needs your musical skills! Get ready for an incredibly fun task where you can save the world while having a blast. Your mission, should you accept it, is to conquer the beginner-level musical symbols and terms found in this amazing worksheet pack.
With each correct answer you provide, you’ll rescue an adorable cow from the clutches of aliens. Keep track of your heroic efforts by tallying the number of cows saved at the bottom of each worksheet. Once you’ve completed your mission, report your triumph to your commander and become a legendary champion known for rescuing cows!
The cows are cheering for you and counting on your musical prowess! So grab your musical gear, prepare for an exciting adventure, and let’s embark on this extraordinary mission today!
Contents
Treble Clef Note Name Worksheet Bass Clef Note Name Worksheet Viola Clef Note Name Worksheet More Musical Symbols Worksheet (Clefs, Time Signatures, Rhythms and Rests) Tempo Terms Worksheet Answer Key
About the Author
Andrew Fling is the author and founder of MakingMusicFun.net, a website dedicated to music education, as another way to share his passion with a wider audience. as actively spread his love for music by teaching children in both Christian and public schools. He has also provided private lessons to aspiring musicians.
During his childhood, he played the clarinet and trumpet as part of the school band. He pursued higher education at Arizona State University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory and Composition. Additionally, he achieved certification in music education for kindergarten through twelfth grade.
MakingMusicFun.net is an online platform dedicated to music education, offering a diverse array of valuable resources. It provides an extensive selection of sheet music tailored for different instruments and proficiency levels. Whether you’re a beginner or an intermediate pianist, guitarist, or part of a band or orchestra, you can find suitable sheet music arrangements accompanied by piano.
Beyond sheet music, MakingMusicFun.net also offers an assortment of music theory materials. These resources, including worksheets, board games, and listening maps, serve as valuable tools for students to grasp musical concepts and enhance their theoretical understanding. The website aims to make learning music an enjoyable and accessible experience for students and educators alike.
Is your child just starting to learn the piano? This Mother Goose Piano Lesson Book is a great choice for beginning piano students. What’s more, the PDF is guided with helpful audio files at MakingMusicFun.net that your child can listen to add fun in learning.
This book has easy piano arrangements for popular Mother Goose nursery rhymes. This 14-page book covers songs that are perfect for pianists at the beginner level up to Level 1B. It’s designed to complement the All-In-One Piano Lesson Library from the MakingMusicFun.net books or any other piano lesson book series you’re using. It’s a helpful resource that makes learning the piano even more fun!
What’s Inside
Here are the contents of the Mother Goose Beginner Piano Lesson Book:
London Bridge Lucy Locket I Had a Little Hobby Horse Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater Little Bo-Peep Humpty Dumpty Hey Diddle Diddle Better Botter Hickory Dickory Dock Sing A Song of Sixpence Pop! Goes the Weasel Cackle, Cackle, Mother Goose
About the Composer and Illustrator
Andrew Fling, who was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1963, had a passion for music from a young age. During his childhood, he played the clarinet and trumpet as part of the school band. He pursued higher education at Arizona State University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory and Composition. Additionally, he achieved certification in music education for kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Andrew Fling has actively spread his love for music by teaching children in both Christian and public schools. He has also provided private lessons to aspiring musicians. In 2007, he founded MakingMusicFun.net, a website dedicated to music education, as another way to share his passion with a wider audience.
MakingMusicFun.net serves as a platform for Andrew Fling to offer valuable resources and materials to individuals interested in music. Through this website, he provides various educational resources, including sheet music, lessons, and more. MakingMusicFun.net aims to make music accessible and enjoyable for people of all ages.
Andrew Fling’s journey from being a child musician in the school band to becoming a music educator and founder of MakingMusicFun.net showcases his dedication to sharing the joy of music. Through his teaching experiences and the creation of the website, he continues to inspire and educate others in the realm of music.
Want to teach your kids about music theater composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber? This all-in-one post will guide you to the best free and paid resources on the web. Included below is a video introduction created just for kids, free worksheets and piano sheet music to give them a hands-on music making experience.
Andrew Lloyd Webber – Composer Biography for Kids
Meet Andrew Lloyd Webber from the MakingMusicFun.net Piano Academy highlights Lloyd Webber’s early interest in theater and four of his most popular productions for the musical theater.
Phantom of the Opera – Title Song
This video features a clip from the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the performed by Emmy Rossum as Christine and Gerard Butler as The Phantom.
Get the Lloyd Webber Study Guide
Print this accompanying free Meet Andrew Lloyd Webber video study guide. It will help your kids get the most out of the lesson.
This crossword puzzle worksheet will help your kids review the facts presented in the Meet Andrew Lloyd Webber video lesson. Print away! It’s a FREE resource.
This free word search worksheet is designed to help your kids review the facts about Andrew Lloyd Webber and build reading skills. Print the Hey Kids, Meet Andrew Lloyd Webber composer biography and the worksheet on MakingMusicFun.net. Your kids will be searching the biography for keywords. The keywords are the words they will be searching the worksheet for.
The following beginner and easy piano sheet music arrangements are perfect for kids in their first year of piano lessons and throughout grade school. Providing arrangement like these to your piano teacher will give your kids a connection to the Andrew Lloyd Webber that far surpasses simply reading about him. His music also tends to encourage a higher level of excitement about learning a new piece.
All of these arrangements are available on MusicNotes. You can print the first page to give it a try. You can also listen to the first page of the arrangement to give you an idea as to what the music sounds like.
Want to learn about German great composer, Johannes Brahms? Get started with this popsicle stick theater production for kids from the MakingMusicFun.net Music Academy. If you’d like to dive in even more, I’ve included a collection of resources below the video to help you create a fantastically fun and engaging unit for your kids or music classroom students.
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Get more out of this FREE MakingMusicFun.net Music Academy video, Meet Brahms | Composer Biography for Kids, print the free study guide. It provides a series of questions that will keep your kids listening and learning all the way through.
The Hey Kids, Meet Brahms composer biography from MakingMusicFun.net is a printable version of the composer video. Your students will find it useful for completing the worksheets.
EXCERPT: Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany on May 7, 1833. Johannes’ father, a town musician, gave him his first musical instruction. At the age of seven he studied piano with Otto Friedrich Willibald Cossel. Young Brahms gave concerts in Hamburg and worked playing piano in restaurants and theaters to help support his family. Read more on MakingMusicFun.net.
Want to give your kids a hands on music-making experience? Print the sheet music below and provide it to them or their music teacher. Don’t have a music teacher? Give the FREE piano lesson a try. All you need is a piano keyboard with full-sized keys!
The Meet Brahms soundtrack features FREE and premium piano sheet music from MakingMusicFun.net. Click the links below to listen to and print the piano sheet music.
This one of several popsicle stick theater productions that MakingMusicFun.net has been creating to enhance their great composer biographies and music academy lessons. This video features Scott Joplin, an American ragtime composer and pianist. It’s a fun resource to share with your kids as a music appreciation lesson or to include in a music classroom lesson.
Begin with the Meet Scott Joplin video. Next, check out the supporting resources provided below, including a FREE Scott Joplin composer study guide, Scott Joplin coloring page, Scott Joplin word search worksheet, and piano sheet music arrangements of his most popular rags.
Learn About Scott Joplin | Ragtime Composer
Get the Meet Scott Joplin Study Guidefor FREE
Get more out of this MakingMusicFun.net Music Academy lesson with this free study guide. Click the link below to print this worksheet.
The Meet Scott Joplin soundtrack features MakingMusicFun.net beginner and easy piano sheet music arrangements that celebrate the music of Scott Joplin. Click the links to print the piano sheet music.
“Mary Had a Little Lamb” is a great first song to learn on the piano, and this lesson will get your kids playing in minutes. Find a tablet or laptop to set up behind the piano keyboard, or put the tablet or laptop on top of the piano. Taking the first piano lesson with your kids, will help them understand what they need to do. Pause the piano lesson after every phrase to drill what was taught. Get it right and then play each phrase correctly a few more times. After the piano lesson, print the FREE beginner piano sheet music from MakingMusicFun.net. It’s a good idea to repeat the lesson daily to remind your kids what they need to do, as kids often forget what the rhythms sound like and don’t practice effectively. Twenty minutes a day is the perfect amount of piano practice time, including time with the video lesson. It won’t ever overwhelm your kids, and they’ll make excellent progress as long as they’re getting to the piano each and every day.
Mary Had a Little Lamb – FREE Beginner Piano Lesson
Print Beginner Piano Sheet Music
Print the FREE beginner piano sheet music for “Mary Had A Little Lamb” at MakingMusicFun.net. Your kids will need it to to practice after the lesson.
Yep, it’s true. Mary was a real girl, and she went to school in a little school house that’s around to this day. There’s also a statue of Mary and her lamb in the city where she grew up.
Want to teach your kids about one of the greatest composers of all-time?
Johann Sebastian Bach certainly qualifies as one of the greats, and with some of his being compositions being over 300 years old his works are still just a popular.
This post includes FREE music lesson resources to share German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, with your kids or in the general music classroom. Start by watching the Meet Bach popsicle stick theater lesson video that covers all the highlights, and follow by diving into the worksheets. If you kids are piano students, I’ve also included links to beginner and easy piano sheet music below.
Print the FREE Meet Bach Study Guide to get more out of this MakingMusicFun.net Music Academy video lesson. Click the following link to print this worksheet.
Hey Kids, Meet Johann Sebastian Bach Composer Biography
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany in 1685. As a child, Bach’s father taught him to play violin and harpsichord. His uncles were all musicians, serving as church organists and court chamber musicians. One of his uncles, Johann Christoph Bach, introduced him to the art of organ playing. In 1707, Bach married his second cousin Maria Barbara Bach. They had seven children. In 1720 Maria died, and Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcke in 1721. Bach had 13 more children with Anna Magdalena. He was a father to 20 children in all. Read more on MakingMusicFun.net.
More Free Johann Sebastian Bach Worksheets
Have fun completing the following free worksheets. Put on a recording while your kids color. It’s a great way to keep them focused.
Want to introduce your children to the musical instruments of the orchestra?
This lesson follows a young boy named, George, who chats with players of the Sydney Youth Orchestra. They teach him about the four families of the orchestra, including the strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. It’s so adorable and and easy lesson to understand.
This music lesson is perfect for kids ages 3-9. For at home learning or something to share in the general music classroom.
Beginning piano students make the same mistakes. I’ve see it a thousand times. You’re kids can avoid them with a few easy steps!
Beginner Piano Student Resources
Want to start to drill skills that will help you child achieve more and enjoy the learning process? Below are links to printable resources that are sure to crank up the fun.
M&M Challenge | Note Name Worksheet – Quiz students by placing plain M&M candies on the treble or bass staff lines or spaces. If they correctly identify the notes, they win candy.
Color That Note! | Note Name Worksheets – Grab your crayons and color your way to success. Complete this worksheet by first choosing 5 crayons. Color each of the first 5 whole notes with a different color. Then complete this worksheet by naming each note correctly, and by coloring each note the same color as it was colored at the top of the worksheet.
Princess-Themed Color-by-Note/Rhythm Worksheet Pack – Make learning note names and rhythms fun with this set of six professionally designed princess-themed color-by-note and color-by-rhythm music theory worksheets.
Piano Games for Kids | 10 Skill Building Games – Ramp up the fun with games that drill piano finger numbers, treble and bass clef note names, and basic rhythms. There’s even a game that teaches kids how to make piano practice more productive.
Free Piano Practice Records/Sticker Charts – Music practice charts are a wonderful way to encourage practice time. Kids love to be recognized for their effort. It could be for specific things like practicing scales, or stuff like meeting daily practice goals. Whatever the reason, practice records help and these are FREE!
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