What are some rhymes or sayings to help teach piano?
I’ve just finished grade 7 piano and I’ve began teaching piano to young kids for extra money. It’s a lot harder than I thought it would be, and after ten years I forget how my teacher started me off.
Does anyone know little rhymes that are used to remember things such as notes of the clefs and things like that?
I used mnemonic devices and acronyms to help me remember the notes on the lines of the clefs. They serve me well and using rhymes to help remember things is a very easy way for most people to learn things.
Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit (EGBDF) to remember the notes on the lines of the treble clef (going upwards).
Simply ‘FACE’ for the notes in the spaces of the treble clef.
Also, ‘All Cows Eat Grass’ for the spaces in the bass clef (ACEG) , and Giggling Boys Don’t Fight Aggressively (GBDFA) for the lines.
For the Circle of Fifths (the order of sharps), I used ‘Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle’ – F,C,G,D,A,E,B.
Good luck 
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treble – every good boy does fine and f – a – c – e
bass – all cows eat grass or all cars eat gas.
lines – good boys do fine always.
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If you have to ask on Y/A for basics of how to teach children the basics, you have no business teaching piano or music lessons to anyone – yet.
Your chances of serving these kids, and PAYING CLIENTELE well is slight. The odds of dis-serving those young students is great, and the fact you will give all involved in the work of teaching music a bad name is certain.
Sorry, your question is absolute proof in itself you should not be giving piano lessons to anybody.
best regards.
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I used mnemonic devices and acronyms to help me remember the notes on the lines of the clefs. They serve me well and using rhymes to help remember things is a very easy way for most people to learn things.
Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit (EGBDF) to remember the notes on the lines of the treble clef (going upwards).
Simply ‘FACE’ for the notes in the spaces of the treble clef.
Also, ‘All Cows Eat Grass’ for the spaces in the bass clef (ACEG) , and Giggling Boys Don’t Fight Aggressively (GBDFA) for the lines.
For the Circle of Fifths (the order of sharps), I used ‘Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle’ – F,C,G,D,A,E,B.
Good luck
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Treble Clef
Lines are E, G, B, D, F.
Spaces are F, A, C, E
Bass Clef
Lines are G, B, D, F, A
Spaces are A, C, E, G
For the sharp key signatures, use this.
F#, C#, G#, D#, A#, E#, B#
For the flat key signatures, use this
Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Cb, Fb
From this method, you will notice that each sharp goes fifth above, and each flat goes fifth below.
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Unless you are a degreed, certified teacher – STOP DOING THIS. You are just plain not seeing and not hearing many vitally important things that cannot be swept under the rug, with the thought that these are "just children" or "just beginners". Your own lessons, etc. is not NEARLY enough for you to be effective, but just enough for you to do some real harm. It seems that the *extra money* factor has blinded you to this – stop today, and refer this poor child to a REAL teacher, s who can undo the damage you have most likely already done – or fill in the huge gaps that you have trampled over. Asking us for *little rhymes*, etc. is pathetic.
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Professional classical musician and multi-degreed, certified teacher and competition judge in NY since 1971. People with my credentials are EVERYWHERE – I am nothing special or out of the ordinary, just a REAL teacher – which you are not.
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