System and method for teaching piano and note reading
OwnerVera Holczer-Waroquetinventor
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Abstract
A system and method for teaching children in the field of music, and more particularly to teach children to play the piano and read musical notes using physical objects with images of characters assigned to fingers and animals assigned to musical notes, with assigned colors and shapes, and all incorporated within themed environments presented in continuing stories.
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A system for teaching children to play the piano and read musical notes using specific characters assigned to each finger and a specific animal assigned to each musical note, where each specific character and specific animal are provided as physical objects to be associated with each respective finger and musical note, and each specific animal is assigned a specific color, and all of the specific animals incorporated within environments depict musical notation and are presented using a presentation medium presenting a series of continuing stories.
A game for teaching note reading comprising,
- a game board displaying images of an island representing the treble clef and an island representing the bass clef, and an image of a rock in a body of water positioned between the images of the islands representing the musical note middle C;
- tokens representing musical notes for positioning on the game board, wherein the tokens display specific shapes representing each musical note, and
- the specific shapes representing each musical note include a bubble shape associated with the note C, a box shape associated with the note D, a firework or asterisk shape associated with the note E, a flower shape associated with the note B, a cage or grid shape associated with the note A, a symbol “˜” or a “wave” shape associated with the note F, and a leaf shape associated with the note G, which leaf shape points upward on the treble clef staff and points downward on the bass clef staff.
A kit for learning to play the piano and reading musical notes, comprising:
- presentation materials;
- tokens bearing the images of 7 different animals representing 7 musical notes;
- a board having an external shape of, and displaying an image of, a dog house with one door, and having two slots for positioning on a group of two adjacent black keys of the piano keyboard;
- a board having an external shape of, and displaying an image of, an animal house with two doors, and having three slots for positioning on a group of three adjacent black keys of the piano keyboard;
- rings for wearing on fingers, and displaying the images of at least five different characters representing fingers on one hand;
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- an armband for wearing on an elbow, and displaying an image of an eye.
A method for teaching a student to play the piano and read musical notes comprising the steps of:
- providing a teacher with presentation materials,
- providing a teacher with seven different physical objects each bearing the image of a different animal representing a different musical note,
- providing a teacher with at least five different physical objects each bearing the image of a different character representing a finger on each hand,
- instructing the student regarding which animal represents which musical note on a piano keyboard by placing a token with the image of the animal representing the musical note on the associated piano key of the keyboard, and
- using the presentation materials to display a tune to be played by arranging images of the different animals in the place of the musical notes represented by the different animals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.