Tip #1
"Have your student label the Treble Clef Board."
Allowing a student to learn how to read musical notation has many benefits and is a major accomplishment. This tip can be a great way to review the 'lines' and/or 'spaces' of the treble clef. Typically, the Treble Clef Board is used by having the teacher or parent position a removable note on the board to create different musical notation. Adding the supplied letter and/or word prompts will allow the student to match and label the note with the correct symbol.
Before you begin your Theory practice during a lesson, remove all of the letter and/or word prompts from the board (even if you are still working on some of them) and lay them out in a random order. Since these prompts are mnemonic, or associated with words, this exercise becomes much more like a puzzle or game. It doesn't matter which order your student uses as long as the sequence is correct. To make this less challenging, try only laying out the "line letter prompts" (or Every, Good, Boy, etc.) and have your student match them to the correct line of the Treble Clef Board.
What is The Young Method?
The Young Method Piano Instruction Series is a unique and individualized set of manuals, songbooks and supplemental materials. To best serve the autism community each of these individual sets have been designed for specific groups of students on the spectrum. Offering over 17 distinct and in-depth sets of teaching material, including Workbooks, flashcards and teaching boards, The Young Method was created to allow a wide range of developmentally disabled individuals discover the piano.
Book 1: While this manual is meant to act as a baseline of the student's ability at the piano, they will also begin right away with learning musical notation.
Path 1: Books 2 - 7 of The Young Method will gradually shift from errorless teaching methods to a more typical style of piano education. Students will learn how to read musical notation, correct fingering, playing the piano with both hands as well as fun and challenging piano pieces.
Path 2: Books 2.1 - 7.1 offer students who find the skill of reading musical notation a little more challenging the chance to discover the piano as well!
Path 3: Books 2.2 -5.2 were created for students displaying a challenge with the matching skills associated with Book 1.
The goal of all of these materials is to help students with autism interact with the piano and discover the fun and beneficial ways in which music can impact their educational and developmental lives.
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