My First Compositions - Composing for Young Beginners - INDIVIDUAL LICENSE

My First Compositions is an introduction to composing and music theory for young children, best used with beginners ages 5-7, although selections can be used with any age. This book can also function as a companion to the method book My Favorite Children's Songs.

My First Compositions includes 3 page formats: color by key or notation, composing templates, and practice drawing notation. The sequence begins with composing on the black keys with quarter notes and evolves to use more complex rhythm notation and an increasing set of white keys in middle C position.

Students will learn about:

• finger numbers
• names of the white keys
• eighth note pairs
• quarter notes
• half notes
• dotted half notes
• whole notes
• quarter rests
• half rests

** NOTE: For best results, print double-sided, landscape, and staple-bind down the left side like a book.**