Piano Teacher Resource Round Up

With a new school year on the horizon, it’s time for piano teachers to make plans and get organized for the coming school year.

A new school year is the perfect time to get a fresh start on studio organization, find new music to incorporate into your teaching repertoire and introduce new games, challenges and activities to your piano students.

We’ve scoured the internet for you to bring some of the best piano teacher resources to one spot.

Of course, Musicnotes is your go-to spot to shop for all of your sheet music needs. Be sure to browse Beginner Notes or Easy Piano arrangements that are suitable for beginners. If your intermediate or advanced students have any special requests, you can find sheet music for all genres and styles on musicnotes.com.

Be sure to check out these composers on musicnotes.com who specifically write music geared towards piano learners:

• Chrissy Ricker
• Jennifer Ecklund
• Carolyn Miller
• Mona Rejino
• Dan Coates
• Robert Schultz
• Philip Keveren
• Melody Bober
• The Piano Keys

With many brand new students starting at the beginning of the school year, it’s nice to have some super easy sheet music to supplement your method books. This bundle of sheet music on Teachers Pay Teachers has 49 super easy songs designed for beginners and each song includes a play-along audio file to bring the music to life.

Wendy Stevens writes pedagogical piano music for kids. Her Rote and Reading pieces are great for beginners with limited note-reading skills. But, you’ll also find all levels of piano music on her site.

MakingMusicFun is full of piano teaching resources. You can find tons of free sheet music there, with the option to upgrade to access even more sheet music. Plus, they’re a part of Musicnotes’ Signature Artist program.

Teach Piano Today has a great collection of piano books for piano learners. Their music has a fresh, modern sound and is particularly appealing to teens.

Willbailypianotunes.com has a collection of free printable sheet music for piano students of all ages with audio files in 3 tempos.

MakingMusicFun is a great spot to find free worksheets to help students practice note-reading, scales, rhythm and other skills. In addition to free worksheets, you can also upgrade to a subscription to access all of the worksheets.

Teach Piano Today has tons of free printable homework pages for piano students. Most of these pages will feel more like a game than a worksheet to students.

This color by note worksheet bundle has over 100 pages of clever coloring pages that incorporate music theory concepts.

This worksheet bundle on Teachers Pay Teachers has over 200 pages and covers a huge variety of music theory concepts.

This InfinitySheet by Philip Johnston is designed to provide endless possibilities for note identification activities all within 1 page.

Julie Duda’s online shop, juliedudamusicstudio.com/creative-games, is a great spot to find fun games for piano lessons. There are games that appeal to a variety of student interests and all kinds of musical concepts. “Time for Cats” and “Time for Dogs” are 2 fun flashcard race games that only take 2 minutes of your lesson time.

Rhythm Cups activities from ComposeCreate.com are always a hit with piano students. It is a spinoff of the popular cup-tapping game and teaches kids to quickly read rhythms and keep a steady beat.

Color In My Piano blog has a number of free printable games for piano lessons.

Busy Little Turtle’s shop on TopMusicMarketplace is another good place to find tons of printable music games for piano students.

If you’re looking for a digital hub for your piano lessons, Piano Marvel is a tremendous resource for piano teachers and students. The app contains thousands of mainstream, pedagogical piano pieces and has interactive features to break them down into manageable tasks for piano students. Piano Marvel works well in both private and group piano lesson settings. You can read a full review of it here.

Faber Piano Adventures has a free interactive sight reading app for teachers. Teachers can invite their students to access the app for free as well as complete sight reading exercises that correspond with the leveling of the other Piano Adventures books.

Music Learning Community is a huge collection of online music theory games for piano students.

Tonic Tutor is another great option for online music learning games to supplement piano lessons.

Piano Program has an online music theory course for piano students using a flipped learning model. Students watch the course videos and do worksheets independently, then come to their lesson ready to use the information they have learned.

If you need to organize the business side of your student, Duet Partner is newly-redesigned and can take care of billing, scheduling, communicating with students and even has a built-in online lesson platform. You can read a full review of it here.

Here is a basic piano assignment sheet that you can print off for each of your students for their piano binder.

If you want to help your students set weekly goals of individual tasks to accomplish, this assignment sheet from TeachersPayTeachers is helpful. There’s even a place on each goal for the student and teacher to assess the week’s progress.

Here’s another option for a weekly checklist assignment sheet with several clever themes to choose from.

Piano Pantry has a large bundle of assignment pages for free when you join their email list.

Piano Practice Bingo is a fun way to get kids to the piano more often. This would make a good challenge to give your students over a holiday break, or to hold as a month-long practice incentive to boost practice.

These piano practice repetition counting sheets are a great way to get students to practice their songs more times. Each sheet is a cute theme and is an easy way to get a student to practice something 50 times.

This point system tracker from Alexa Madison will help keep all of your students motivated and engaged by earning points for completing assignments and tasks.

Mastering the Mystery of Music from Music Matters Blog keeps students excited to practice with weekly challenges.

If you could only pick one teaching aid to keep by your piano, these Magnetic Wooden Scale Blocks would be the way to go! They help piano students to quickly see patterns found in scales. There are tons of activities relating to scales, key signatures, chords, inversions and intervals that students can do with these blocks:

Here’s a printable scale book on TeachersPayTeachers that you can use with your whole studio.

These scale label stickers are a quick way to assign scales to your students without having to re-write the details of each scale for every student.

Color In My Piano blog has this handy chart to help students visualize the patterns of white and black keys in each scale:

Here are some free scale fingering diagrams from Top Music Marketplace.

This learning style inventory for piano students will help you efficiently learn information about each piano student so that you can plan your lessons to accommodate each student’s individual learning style.

The Faber website has a beautiful ebook about Beethoven. This would be a great activity for students to explore during piano lab time or as a part of a music history lesson:

Classics For Kids is a radio show that teaches kids about classical composers. You can find all kinds of lesson plans for teachers and activities for students on this site.

Help your students keep track of their current lesson page and remember important concepts with these clever corner bookmarks from Susan Hong.

This post was written by Megan, piano teacher and author of Pianissimo: A Very Piano Blog. Visit her website for more piano related blogs for teachers, parents, students, and all things piano.

Published on August 9, 2022