Student Fun Page!

McLelland Piano of Birmingham/Hoover, Alabama

Students!  Choose an exciting online game or activity below.  Just click the picture next to the game you'd like to play!  (Buckle up, though!  You'll be traveling  offsite!)  Don't forget to CONTACT US to let us know how many games you played, (or articles you read), to receive your deserved honor points!  Also, let us know if YOU find some other cool sites we should add!

Piano Education Page - JUST FOR KIDS

Fun Stuff for Kids!  Including neat music and meet the composer!

Continue your virtual tour of McLelland Piano ....

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HEAR TRAINING!

Ear Training Games!  Try the intervals -- they're GRRRREAT!  Hint, only do the chromatic intervals if you're an advanced student.  Bonus Hint:  2nds = scale/chopsticks;  3rds = triad/ Kum Ba Yah;  4ths = Here Comes the Bride; 5ths = Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; 6ths = NBC Theme; 7ths = DISSONANT!;  8ths/octaves = Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

Double Bonus Hint:  Perfect Intervals = 1, 4, 5, 8      Major Intervals = 2, 3, 6, 7

Chromatic Intervals/altered intervals:  Perfect, made 1/2 step larger = Augmented;

Perfect, made 1/2 step smaller = Diminished intervals

Major intervals, made 1/2 step smaller = minor intervals.

PIANO JOKES

Did you hear the one about........???

PBS KIDS

                        Great games for YOUNGER kids! 

Funbrain

Learn musical notes with Pianomus Platypus.  4 Levels!  Beginning, Intermediate, Expert, and Virtuoso.  Click key on piano that corresponds with note on staff.

Metronimo Games

ANOTHER of Miss Amy's favorites! 

Metronimo Games, Caricatures, Puzzles, Quizzes, Hangman, Wordsearch and more!

THE VIRTUAL PIANO!!

Click on ANY part of the piano to learn how the piano works!  This is COOL.

THE HISTORY OF THE PIANO

Choose from several great sites!

http://www.uk-piano.org/history/history.html

http://www.cantos.org/Piano/PianoHistory.html

http://www.concertpitchpiano.com/Pianostory.html

http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm5-6/HistoryPiano-en.htm

http://www.pianoworld.com/

Famous

Piano

Composers

LISTENING

List (and online listening resource!) of important piano repertoire that piano students should become familiar with at some point in their studies.

BIG EARS

"The original online ear-trainer."  Drill-and-Practice; Music Theory; Middle / Older students can practice the ear training by identifying ascending and descending intervals

Music Theory.net

Older students.  This site works like a music theory textbook, but plays audio examples and also provides drills for practicing.

TEORIA - Music Theory

Middle/Older students

This site also works like a music theory textbook, but also plays audio examples and provides drills for practicing.

Well-Tempered Clavier

Middle/Older students; Explore the fugues of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.  This site is AWESOME!

CHECK IT OUT!