How to remember notes and their location on the staff?
First, let's prepare everything we need:
- draw a large musical staff on a piece of paper;
- Let's cut out 7 oval notes the size of a 5-ruble coin.
It is advisable that the notes be colored, like the colors of the rainbow: this way they are better remembered.
Training should take place in several stages:
- First, we learn three notes located on the first three lines: mi, salt, si.
- When the child learns three notes and can identify them in different sequences, we begin to study the notes located between the lines: D, F, A.
- When the child masters both of them and is able to identify both interspersed, we learn the note “C” located on the additional line, and the “C” of the 2nd octave between the third and fourth line.
- After this, ask your child to make a scale of notes, starting with “C” of the 1st octave and ending with “C” of the 2nd octave.
- At the next stage, the child lays out simple melodies from notes, writes them out in an album and performs them on the piano. This stage is especially pleasant for him, because he plays the notes!
- After this, you can safely take children's music books and identify the notes there.
When the child already identifies all the notes well, you can move on to gradually learning everything else: keys, durations, pauses, octaves, etc.
How to tell about notes?
Before you introduce your child to notes, you need to explain to him what they are.
Notes are recorded sounds. Just as we write our speech in letters, so music is written in notes. There are a huge variety of notes: both high and low, but they are all divided into 7 basic ones, which everyone knows: do, re, mi, fa, salt, la, si.
The notes live on a musical staff, which consists of 5 lines. The notes can be located either directly on these lines, or between them, they can also be under and above the lines, and on additional lines that we draw above or below.
Draw a staff of music on a large sheet of paper and write notes in a row on it (you can color them in different colors). Then sing them all together with your child.
To make your child interested in learning notes, you can show him a cartoon about the notes “Do Re Mi.”
A start has been made - the child has a general understanding of notes. Only after showing interest in notes can you start learning them seriously (it’s better to do this on another day).
