Content Highlights – The Kingdom Of Music

The learner journeys together with the King, queen and children as they visit all the places in the Kingdom of Music. In this way he learns to hear and name all the intervals of the major scale.
Beat and rhythm are learnt through memorising and moving to the verses of the Fairy Music.

Note Names are characters in The Kingdom of Music, interacting with one another.
According to the Colour Note System, the keys in every octave on the piano has a different colour of the rainbow which is indicated with a colour strip affixed just above the keys. This system enables readers, right from the start of lessons, to play across the whole keyboard and to read and write music with pre-notation.
Note & Rest Values: The note value names semibreve, minim, crotchet and quaver are used and rhythm is taught by means of the taa/saa French counting system. The various note values are characters in the Kingdom of Music.
Time signatures: simple and compound duple, triple and quadruple time.
Notes on the staff over 3 octaves.
Key signatures and writing of scales in C: G: and F: keys.
Theory Work Sheets reinforce the theory teaching.
The Ups and Downs teaches the reading of intervals of up to a fifth across the double staff. This practices sight-reading skills from early on and reinforces knowledge of the note names on the staff.

Technique is taught and practised in an ever varied and interesting way by means of the Finger Games; the games and activities of the 10 princes and princesses (the LH and RH fingers) in the Kingdom of Music.

Learners understand, remember and do these exercises without being able to read music.

Playing with both hands across the keyboard.
Independent finger and hand control.
Legato and staccato playing.
Dynamics and tempo in playing.

Improvisation and the writing down of learners’ own music are part of every lesson.
Stories are used in every aspect of teaching and learners create their own Kingdom of Music world through their drawings.

All the above aspects of teaching are brought together in the repertoire pieces which are composed to represent a learner’s progress through the story.

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