Little piano students always steal the show at holiday recitals. Handel could come back from the dead and play a piano rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus and he would still be overshadowed by a 5-year-old in a Christmas dress playing Jingle Bells.
This Christmas, many of your littlest students will be making their first appearance in front of an audience.
To help them have a piano performance they will fondly remember, we have composed an alpha note Christmas song and teacher duet that will surely end with a standing ovation.
Based on Deck The Halls, you can find our early primer performance piece in today’s post.
Early Primer Music On The Wunder Staff
Today’s alpha note piano solo is composed on the Wunder Staff!
Unique to the WunderKeys Method Books and resources, the Wunder Staff is a modified grand staff used with very new piano students.
It contains the top two lines of the bass staff (referred to as the LH staff) and the bottom two lines of the treble staff (referred to as the RH staff).
The Wunder Staff provides a home for alpha notes so they do not have to just float in space. When alpha notes are placed on the Wunder Staff, kids learn directional movement of music with much greater success. They can easily see when notes move higher, move lower, and repeat.
And it gets better.
Alpha notes are placed on the Wunder Staff according to their positions on the grand staff. So, while your students are reading note names inside the notes, they are also learning to recognize the placement of notes in middle C position.
Before You Download Today’s Christmas Music
If you want your students to benefit from an entire book of scaffolded alpha note music, be sure to check out…
Nuts For Alpha Notes, V. U. Level C: Pre-Reading Songs and Activities for Early Primer Piano Students
Nuts For Alpha Notes is a pedagogical powerhouse jam-packed with piano songs and activities.
Inside you will discover 7 loveable piano pieces with lyrics and teacher duets, keyboard awareness games, rhythm reading practice, finger number exercises, a coloring activity, a practice tracker, and a certificate of achievement.
Click here or on the cover below to buy Nuts For Alpha Notes.
And don’t forget to check out our most recent Christmas songbook for primer piano students. Click here or on the cover below to learn more about The Flight Of The Christmas Tree.
Download Our Alpha Note Christmas Song
Click on the first button below to download our Alpha Note Christmas Song from the Members Only Printables section of the Growing With WunderKeys Toolkit.
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