big notes with letter names inside

[ChristmasCarol]

Oh yeah,
You're all going to really really be impressed with my teaching techniques now...  I scanned a copy of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer from a Christmas book I got because the selection was great for sing-a-longs.  The book is one of the  those tacky books with huge notes and letter names of notes inside them.  Well don't ya know my seven year old student who has struggled with reading music got a look at this music and a huge light turned on for her and she in her own words "practiced too much" this week, couldn't wait for her lesson and sight read Jingle Bell Rock on the spot.  Go figure.  Anyone else work with music this way?  What's interesting is that this kid has a real feel for piano.  I believe she's going to kick butt some day.

[Daniel_piano]

Oh yeah,
You're all going to really really be impressed with my teaching techniques now...  I scanned a copy of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer from a Christmas book I got because the selection was great for sing-a-longs.  The book is one of the  those tacky books with huge notes and letter names of notes inside them.  Well don't ya know my seven year old student who has struggled with reading music got a look at this music and a huge light turned on for her and she in her own words "practiced too much" this week, couldn't wait for her lesson and sight read Jingle Bell Rock on the spot.  Go figure.  Anyone else work with music this way?  What's interesting is that this kid has a real feel for piano.  I believe she's going to kick butt some day.

I've never heard of these tacky books
Do you have pictures?
You know what, I think that such a book may be usefull even for a 8 grade student or adult
In fact even if they seem like silly to a grown up they stimulate the fantasy and the immagination, the memory of the childhoo and as such they switch your brain from a right side learning mode, a mode in which you learn 100 times faster
It amazes me how practicing on kiddy books (good kiddy books) with lot of funny pictures and charm melodies results in a lot of more "standard" material learned quicker and better
Like I'm practicing a Schubert Impromptu I switch from a kiddy book with large notes and drawings of bunnies, kittens, cubs, little houses and thereafter the Schubert Impromptu sounds better as ever and I complete it quickly
I think fantasy, immagination, colours are all understimated, in fact they're one the first reason why children learn faster and (as many experimental schools have showed) more fantasy, colours, immagination and sense of awe would help adults in their learning and jobs better than their boring seriousness and coldness

Anyway, ChristmasCarol the reason why your student saw the light after using this book and the reason why even adult with the right mentality could be helped in seeing the light with this book is that such colorful, immaginative and charm books stimulate the right dise of the brain hence set you in a mode in which everything becomes clear and intuitive

Daniel

[ChristmasCarol]

Thanks Daniel,
That's a big help.   Funny how something is staring you in the face and you can't see it.   I operate so much from the right brain myself that I couldn't see the forest for the trees.  Of course you're right.  I'd be happy to send you copies of this music.  It's a jpeg file and I can't figure out how to put that kind of attachment in here.  Am I once again missing something obvious?

My birthday is a week before Christmas and that's why my name is Carol.  So yeah, I'm a big Christmas fan.  Love a good party really.
 

[Daniel_piano]

Thanks Daniel,
That's a big help.   Funny how something is staring you in the face and you can't see it.   I operate so much from the right brain myself that I couldn't see the forest for the trees.  Of course you're right.  I'd be happy to send you copies of this music.

I would love it, thanks

It's a jpeg file and I can't figure out how to put that kind of attachment in here.  Am I once again missing something obvious?

You can unfortunately attach something here from your computer, you need the file to be online
If it's less than 1MB maybe you can send it to me by email

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My birthday is a week before Christmas and that's why my name is Carol.  So yeah, I'm a big Christmas fan.  Love a good party really.

Now, that's why our ideas and opinions are so alike 
I'm a Sagittarius as well and my birthday is two weeks before Christmas
I love Christmas as well and I'm a huge fan of everything regarding the Christmas period from songs, cartoons and comic books to photos, books and movies

Daniel