Snakes Go for a Walk: Notes That Move Up and Down, but Sometimes Skip

Free piano music for beginners, Snakes Go for a Walk is a cute and fun page of reading exercises that get progressively harder.

Almost the same as "Snakes," in which the notes move only by steps, Snakes Go for a Walk differs by craftily inserting surprise skips into each set of music notes.



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First one skip, then two, then three, and at last four skips are hidden in the lines of notes. Kids like the challenge of spotting them. The "tunes" are quite unsingable, helping prevent the Snakes from being memorized!

Try these exercises as solos to be performed in group classes, with the other kids looking on. Another way to add some "pressure" to the game is to set the metronome to a slow speed...most kids enjoy trying to "win" against the metronome by not getting behind.

When you observe your students playing these exercises, you will know at once if they are understanding the principle of reading notes.

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