The following are a list of customized educational resources that I have built and use during lessons as well as outside resources. Feel free to print and use. Other teachers are welcome to use these resources as long as I am credited for my work. While this curriculum is designed for people who either can’t read music or have trouble reading music, it is equally as effective for those that are proficient at reading music. At the bottom of the page are famous songs, and children’s music I have transcribed for students to play. (over 200 pages of curriculum below.)

OUTSIDE RESOURCES

• Silicone removable note tabs for beginner piano players. (A game changer for teaching beginners. highly recommended for young kids and beginners of all ages.)

• Removable Note Stickers with sharps and flats

• Alfred Basic Piano Course Book Level 1A (What I use for beginners)

• Faber Level 1 2nd level piano book for beginners after finishing 1A

• MusicTheory.net (Visit the Lessons page for information on concepts, and Exercises for drills. Highly recommended for learning how to read music and ear training.) FREE

• IMSLP Free Sheet Music Library

• James Bastien Favorite Classic Melodies Free (Printable)

ALL CUSTOMIZED MATERIALS BY ME

1. Note names, lines and spaces, treble and bass clef.

2. Notes Labeled on the Keyboard with Sharps and Flats

3. All Intervals simple and compound

4. Reading Rhythms Level 1

5. Reading Rhythms Level 2

6. Introduction to ties and dotted notes

7. Introduction to 3/4 time and 2/4 time (Waltz and March)

8. Introduction to triplets and the swing rhythm

9. Sight Reading Level One Right Hand

10. Sight Reading Level Two Left Hand

11. Introduction to song form. (Song forms of popular songs)

12. All major chords in half steps. (Major triads chromatically)

13. All minor chords in half steps (Minor triads chromatically)

14. Chords Within the Major Scale (Numbered Chords on Scale Degrees) Introduction to chord progressions

15. Chord Progressions in Major Key (To be used in tandem with chords within the major scale)

16. Chords within the Minor Scale (Numbered Chords on Scale Degrees)

17. Chord Progressions in Minor Key (To be used in tandem with chords within the minor scale)

18. First three notes of the major scale

19. First three notes of the Minor Scale

20. First Five Notes of the Major Scale in Every Key Right Hand

21. First Five Notes of the Minor Scale in Every Key Right Hand

22. All augmented chords in half steps (augmented triads chromatically.)

23. Whole Tone Scales with fingerings

24. All diminished chords in half steps (diminished triads chromatically.)

25. Inversions for Major Minor and Diminished Chords (Triads)

26. All Major Scales (Right Hand) with note names and fingerings

27. All Minor Scales (Right Hand) with note names and fingerings

28. All Pentatonic scales Major and Minor, and Blues scales with fingerings

29. All Dorian Minor Scales (Right Hand) With note names and fingerings

30. All Mixolydian scales (Dominant) Right hand with note names and fingerings

31. All Major and Minor 6th Chords

32. All Major and Minor 6th Chord inversions (minor 7th and half diminished 7th)

33. “So What” Left Hand Voicings (D and Eb Dorian)

34. “So What” Lead Sheet with Melody and Chords

35. “So What” Miles Davis Transcription Sheet music

36. “So What” Miles Davis Solo

37. “So What” Backing track (Use this to practice improvising)

38. “Little Sunflower” Left Hand Voicings (D and Eb Major7)

39. “Little Sunflower” Lead Sheet Melody and Chords by Freddie Hubbard

40. Little Sunflower Freddy Hubbard Recording

41. Little Sunflower Backing Track use this to practice soloing

42. All Seventh Chords in Half Steps (Major, Minor, Dominant, Minor-Major, Diminished, Half-Diminished, Diminished Major, Augmented Major, Augmented Dominant chromatically.)

43. Inversions of Major Minor and Dominant 7th chords

44. 2-5-1 Voicings in every key using 2, 3 and 4 note voicings

45. All Lydian Scales (Major 7th #11 4th scale degree) In every key with fingerings

46. All melodic minor scales with fingerings

47. All lydian dominant scales (dominant 7th #11 4th scale degree of melodic minor scale) with fingerings

48. All Half Diminished 7th Chords with Inversions

49. All Half Diminished Scales (Locrian #2) 6th mode of the melodic minor scale and fingerings

50. All Tritone Substitutions in Every Key

51. Minor 2-5-1 voicings in every key

52. All Altered Dominant Scales (Super Locrian) 7th Mode of the Melodic Minor Scale and fingerings

53. All Half Whole and Whole Half Diminished scales and fingerings

54. All modes of the Major Scale in every key

55. All harmonic minor scales with fingerings

56. All harmonic major scales with fingerings

57. Hexatonic scales for Major and Melodic Minor with fingerings

58. 7th Chord Inversions of Minor-Major, Diminished Major, Augmented Major, and Augmented Dominant

59. “C Jam Blues” Introduction to 12 Bar Blues.

60. ‘C Jam Blues” Clark Terry Recording and solo

61. “C Jam Blues” Backing Track

62. “Bag’s Groove” 12 Bar Blues in F

63. “Bag’s Groove” Miles Davis solo and Milt Jackson

64. “Bag’s Groove” Backing Track

65. Introduction To Spread Voicings, Spread Major and Minor Triads

66. Diminished and Augmented Spread Vocings Triads

67. Spread Voicings for 7th chords, Major, Minor, Dominant, Minor-Major, Half Diminished, Diminished, Diminished Major, Augmented Major and Augmented Dominant (DROP 2)

68. Spread Voicings for 7th chords, Major, Minor, Dominant, Minor-Major, Half Diminished, Diminished, Diminished Major, Augmented Major and Augmented Dominant (DROP 2 AND 4)

69. Quartal Voicings three and four notes

70. 2-5-1 Spread Rootless voicings with inversions and tritone substitutions included

71. Minor 2-5-1 Spread Voicings with inversions.

72. 7th Chords Diatonically in every key

73. Spread Triads Diatonically in every key

74. Spread 7th chords drop 2 diatonically in every key

75. Spread 7th chords drop 2 drop 4 diatonically in every key

76. Minor Blues Equinox By John Coltrane and Lesson

77. “Equinox” John Coltrane Recording

78. “Equinox” Backing Track use this to practice improvising

79. Diatonic Patterns Major, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, and Harmonic Major

80. Major 2-5-1 Patterns

81. Minor 2-5-1 Patterns

82. Chromatic scale and Chromatic scale patterns

83. Hexatonic Chords (two triads on top of one another)

84. Blue Monk (Blues in Bb)

85. “Blue Monk” Thelonious Monk Recording

86. “Blue Monk” Backing Track

87. Blues with turnarounds and added changes (C Jam Blues, Bag’s Groove, Blue Monk) (C, F Bb)

88. Autumn Leaves, Learning your first Jazz standard

89. “Autumn Leaves” Miles Davis Recording

90. “Autumn Leaves Backing Track