Attention: Classroom Music Teachers ...

"Save yourself hundreds of hours lesson preparation time with Instant Print Music Worksheets"

Tuesday, 4:45 PM

From the desk of: Janice Tuck, Music Teacher
and C.E.O of The Fun Music Company

If you dream of being able to walk into your music class with materials already prepared at the click of a mouse... then this could be the most important webpage you´ll ever visit....

If you are like most music teachers:

• You are under incredible pressure to prepare lessons, write band arrangements, write music lesson plans and write reports

• You've got no time to even think about the theory lessons ­ there is far too much else to do. You certainly won´t have time to prepare your own theory worksheets!

• You´ve got limited resources and a very limited budget to buy new materials. On this page you´ll discover important resources that can really help you.

Janice Tuck B.Ed (music) Music Teacher, Mother, and now C.E.O of The Fun Music Company

Dear Music Teaching Friend,

My name is Janice Tuck, and I understand how you feel. You see, I´ve been a music teacher in a variety of teaching situations for the last 15 years. I´ve worked in schools with no budget and no resources, right through to schools where I had a full curriculum to follow.

It doesn't matter where you are teaching, how many students you teach at a time or how much experience you have... the challenges are still the same!

I know how difficult it is trying to find quality resources that work for your music classes, particularly when you have such a variety of classes to prepare for. That is why I came up with the idea of creating a set of resources that:

• Inspired and motivated the students in a class situation

• Cut down on preparation time

• Taught theory in a non-traditional way

• Had a unifying "theme" - so that if a class enjoyed a particular activity there would always be another "level" to move on to.

• Involved some interesting "trivia" to catch the attention of the students

• Were suitable for junior high level - but adaptable for a variety of age levels

• Were self checking, so that they could be given to a relief or substitute teacher as an "instant" lesson plan solution

On the next page you´ll discover set one of these materials, and you´ll be able to preview how these can work for your music class.

These materials are available at a very reasonable cost - and you can purchase them yourself or get your school to purchase a site license. Quality materials always cost money, but we have made these materials available for a fraction of the cost of a class set of traditional books.

Why?

Because it is focussed on your needs as a music teacher, specifically:

• Each package has one unifying theme that is the same for every handout in the series. This makes the students look forward to the activity!

• Each package has a variey of difficulty levels, ranging from quite simple (identifying notes on the stave, and counting beats, through to moderately advanced

• The materials are fully printable, as many times as you need, with NO restrictions or annoying copyright issues.

• As a teacher if you purchase a module of Instant Print Music Lessons for yourself - it is yours for life. You can take it to whatever school you are teaching at.

• If the school purchases a site license there is no limit to the number of teachers that can use it within that school.

At the moment there is one module available - "Treasure Island Games". Our team of music teachers are working hard on developing the next modules, which will be released gradually during 2007 and 2008.

"Instant Print Music Lessons" Does NOT:

Give you a full curriculum to follow

This would be silly - Every state, country and even school has its own curriculum which you as a teacher have to work within. You have pressures to make sure that what you are teaching covers the basic points within it. The last thing you need is some other stuff that requires particular steps followed in order to work.

Tell you how to teach

YOU are a qualified, and experienced music teacher, or you wouldn't be viewing this webpage. At the fun Music Company we will not try and tell you how to teach a concept to your classes, as YOU know the best way to communicate with your children.

Tell you WHAT to teach

A lot of music theory books are structured with a rigid, inflexible approach that goes through a set of concepts in order - and you´ll find that half the class might have missed some important concepts. Our Instant Print Music Lessons are there to help you, and support the concepts that you are currently teaching.

Instant Print Music Lessons DO give you a whole lot of useful and practical worksheets that you can instantly print and use as you need for your music classes.

Introducing:
Instant Print Music lessons
Module One

Mrs ___________Your Name Here_________, Can we do a treasure Island Game Today?

This is what you are likely to hear from your music class once you´ve introduced them to "Instant Print Music Sheets" first module "treasure island games".

In Treasure Island Games you´ll have twenty different handouts that all do essentially the same activity - finding the answer to a hidden trivia question from a "map" of letters like this:

The trivia questions are all interesting tid-bits of information which are related to music, but that the students are unlikely to know straight away. If they do there is no problem - they will still need to complete the exercise to confirm that they are right!

Using the theory sheet the students will have to complete the questions to get the directions and the number of steps to take on the "map", to get each letter of the of the answer

The clever part is that each set is different and requires different theoretical knowledge. There are five different "sets", and each set has four "levels" with different concepts covered.

Here is what is covered within each set:

Level 1 - Doing simple "beat sums", counting the number of crotchet beats in a phrase and identifying notes on the treble stave Level 2 - Completing the barlines in a phrase, and naming simple Major Key Signatures Level 3 - Completing Bars with rests, and naming Minor Key Signatures Level 4 - Working out the time signature and completing bars, and then naming scales (simple Major or Minor scales) Set One covers basic information that most junior high music programs require. Being able to identify Key signatures is an important concept, as is knowing the correct number of bars in a phrase. Even the most inexperienced students should be able to do Set 1, Level 1 after only a few lessons. Level 3 and 4 is more suited to slightly more experienced students, who know about Key signatures and scales.

In All the sets in Treasure Island Games the same "map" is used for each of the four levels. It doesn't matter if your class does one sheet from the set, or all four!

Level 1 - counting the number of a basic interval, and identifying one of the notes Level 2 - Counting the number of a basic interval, and identifying its Key Signature Level 3 - working out an interval and identifying its key Level 4 - Working out an interval and its quality (major, minor, perfect) Many students struggle being able to know the interval between two notes, and this is an essential skill before attempting intervals as an aural activity. The only thing that is going to help them is practice, practice, practice, and that is what Set 2 of this module achieves. If your students complete all four levels of this set then you can be confident of their knowledge of intervals. They don´t need to aurally identify them - that comes later!

In each set the four levels range from easy to moderately advanced, so there is a worksheet suitable for most classes at a Junior High School level.

Level 1 - Counting the number of TIES within a short melody, and identifying its final note Level 2 - Counting the number of SLURS within a short melody and identifying its final note Level 3 - Counting the number of SEMITONES within a melody and identifying its KEY Level 4 - Counting the number of TONES within a melody and identifying its KEY TIES and SLURS! How many students get confused between them! How silly to have a musical notation system that has the same symbol ( a curved line) for two different functions! We can´t change the musical system that has been used for hundreds of years, but we can find a new way of helping children to understand the difference, and that is what level 1 and 2 of this series will do. Level 3 and 4 are far more advanced - in these activities students identify the tones and semitones within a melody, taking note of the key signature. These are probably the most advanced of any within this module. I even got some of these wrong during our testing procedures! If your students are getting over-confident these ones will test them out!

This module of theory sheets is also ideal to give to individual theory students to support their work in Intervals, Scales and Melody. It will break up the monotony of the theory book, and give the theory student something exciting to look forward to!

Scales and technical names - How BORING! Not with this set of Handouts! Whether you like it or not - its still important for students to KNOW the scale technical names (like dominant, subdominant etc) How else as musicians are they going to know what to play when another musician tells them to play a Dominant 7th chord? They might be outdated terms, but in the opinion of the majority of music teachers I´ve talked to they are still important. This set also addresses a major issue with theory examinations - writing scales with accidentals OR key signatures. When sitting exams countless students have been tricked and got wrong answers because they didn´t read the question correctly! These worksheets cleverly address this! Level 1 - Adding a Clef and Key signature to a given scale, then naming the scales leading note. Level 2 - Adding a Clef and Accidental to a given scale, then naming the scales dominant note. Level 3 - Writing a two octave scale with accidentals (major and harmonic minor only), and then naming the mediant. Level 4 - Writing a one octave scale (major and natural minor), and then naming the subdominant note.

This last set of worksheets in "Instant Print Music Lessons" involves an activity where the class must listen to aural examples. As the teacher YOU are in control of how you present it to the class.... read on!

Q. How much practice does your music class need with recognizing intervals aurally? A. As much as they can get! This set requires your students to use their EARS as well as their brains! There is a teacher resource included that allows you to play a CD to the class and they will have to identify the interval played, and if they get it right then they´ll be able to find the awnser to the trivia question - just like all the others! Here is the intervals covered: Level 1 - Perfect 4th, 5th, Octave, Major 3rd Level 2 - Major 2nd 3rd, 6th and 7th, Perfect 4th, 5th and Octave Level 3 - Major and Minor 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th, Perfect 4th, 5th and Octave Level 4 - All of the above, plus the tritone. Along with the purchase of Module 1 "Treasure Island Games" you get a set of MP3 files which match these four levels exactly. This way you can simply burn the files to CD, and you can give the CD to your relief teacher. You don´t even need to be there!!!

But wait - How do you play the Aural examples?

Supplied with Treasure Island Games are the mp3 files which you can burn to CD for use in your classes. However we throught there HAD to be a better way than the old way where the aural example is played a fixed number of times. That is an OK way of doing it, but as the teacher it doesn't give you much control. So we came up with.....

Wouldn't it be GREAT if you could simply have a little button like this:
 

Well.. You can!!

Along with the purchase of Module One you get a self contained computer program that you can run on your own computer in the classroom, and play the intervals in your own time.

This little program is supplied in both Windows and Mac Versions, and it is super easy to use!

Test it out right now!

If you click the little adobe flash icon here you'll be able to see how the computer program is presented, and play one or two of the samples. (the preview requires adobe flash plugin, which most computers have installed.)

You can also use it to help teach the intervals and have additional practice, prior to doing the actual worksheet activity if you wish.

Therefore it is your choice....

There are three ways you can do the activity in Level 5

1. you can use the included mp3 files, burned to a CD
2. you can play the examples on the piano if you prefer
3. you can use the included computer program to play them

We know that YOU wouldnt have to think too hard to find the answers to these questions.... but what if you wanted to leave one of these activities with a fill-in or relief teacher?

Unless the teacher knows about music, any worksheet that you give the class is going to present a few issues..

BUT we've made this as painless as possible by providing a fully completed version of every single worksheet, so that if you have a fill-in or relief teacher you simply print one copy of that along with the class set.

This will save you hours of headaches as well, particularly if you don't know:
 

Super Bonus #3

"Music Education News" Monthly Newsletter to keep you informed and in touch with other music teachers and their methods

"Music Education News" comes out every month, to members who have purchased "Printable Music Games" or other Fun Music Company Educational products. It contains lesson plan ideas and regular updates on the latest updates and releases.

When you purchase a book or traditionally delivered resource, and there is a printing error - you are stuck with it! The book can hardly "correct itself"! However with access to any module of Instant Print Music Lessons you will have access to a secure download area, and if there is any revisions or corrections we will email you and you'll be able to download a new version.

We have checked and re-checked these resources, however there may be some unavoidable issues, and updates may need to be made. Therefore we guarantee lifetime access* to the product you have purchased. Once you have purchased a module of Instant Print Music Lessons you'll have access to that module as long as you need.

How do I download them and get started?

Don't worry if you aren't very computer literate: We've made it as easy as possible to download and use these materials.

Windows Users - The materials come packaged in a *.exe e-book program, and you simply have to register it once on your computer, and you can always go back to it as you need.

Macintosh Users - We havn't forgotten you! The materials come packaged in a fully indexed pdf file, that you simply use your password to access

The only software required to print these materials is the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is already installed in most computers.

If you order now through our secure ordering system you'll have instant access to the materials, and you can print them out to use in your lessons tommorow!

You can "Test Drive" these materials with your music classes for 90 Days

At the Fun Music Company we don't want to give you a free sample. If we did that it would be impossible to choose exactly the right level that would suit your classes, and you need access to the entire package to appreciate the value that this package represents.

Complete the order form today and get started tommorow - you´ll see how "treasure island games" will be invaluable in your repertoire of teaching materials.

If at any time you feel that the small investment that you make with us for "Treasure Island Games" is not worth it, then we insist that you contact us straight away, and we will give 100% of your money back.

We will even allow you to keep one set of the handouts completely free, just for wasting your time. So you really have nothing to lose, and everything to gain!

Janice Tuck, CEO
The Fun Music Company

 

This is the way this works - The regular price of these modules will be $39.90 per module for an individual teacher license, and $59.90 for a school site license. This is amazing value considering the amount of materials included.

If you invest today in Module One- "treasure island games" Now, you´ll be able to get this first set at our launch price of Just $29.90. Not only that, you will get yourself onto the priority teachers list, and you´ll have the first opportunity to purchase future modules at their launch prices as well.

Let's Recap what is included:

	Set 1 - Rhythm and Key signatures Four Worksheets + Map Sheet	$9.95
	Set 2 - Intervals Four Worksheets + Map Sheet	$9.95
	Set 3 - Melody Four Worksheets + Map Sheet Works on Ties, Slurs, Tones and Semitones in Melodies	$9.95
	Set 4 - Scales Four Worksheets + Map Sheet Works on writing scales, plus identifying scale degrees	$9.95
	Set 5 - Aural Four Worksheets + Map Sheet works on aural identification of intervals, from Perfect 4th, 5th and Octave, right through to major and minor intervals and the tritone.	$9.95
	Super Bonus #1 mp3 files AND computer program for Set 5 Makes it super-easy to play aural examples in your music class.	$19.95
	Super Bonus #2 Full Set of completely answered versions with teaching hints for non-music teachers	Priceless!
	Super Bonus #3 "Music Education News" The Fun Music Company Monthly e-newsletter	Priceless!
	Super Bonus #4 Lifetime Access* to updates and revisions	Priceless!
Total value included:		$69.70
School Site Licences Cost:   Includes a CD-ROM, mailed to the school		$59.90
Individual Teacher Version Costs:   Instant download		$39.90 $29.90

Incredible Value for Music Teachers....

So, for around the cost of one CD you'll have access to twenty different activity worksheets, that you'll use time and time again.

To create just one of these worksheets would take you at least two hours, so you can look at it that even if you just use five of them you are saving yourself many hours work in lesson preparation!

If you value your time like I do, then take action today and save yourself some time!

As you'll see from the wide variety of ordering options we have available, there is no reason not to take action immediately!

Please note that The Fun Music Company is based in Australia, and our banks insist that we deal in Australian Dollars. This is not a problem, in fact if you happen to live in the US or UK it works out incredibly well for you! Check it out by visiting www.xe.com and work out the price in your own currency.

For school site licenses we will send a CD-ROM and Audio CD, however for individual teachers you will have instant access via download to the materials, and no CDs will be sent. If you wish the CD Package can be sent for an extra charge of $9.95

So thankyou for taking the time to read this letter - and why not take the step now to invest in your own sanity by ordering an individual teachers license?

Have a musically inspired day,

Janice Tuck
Owner and C.E.O of the Fun Music Company

P.S. Only 200 Copies will be sold at this launch price before it has to go up to $39.90

P.P.S. Don't forget that if you get in at $29.90 with this one, you'll also have the opportunity to get future modules at their launch prices as well!

P.P.P.S Still Skeptical? I understand, so thats why you are covered by our 100% no questions asked money back guarantee, so you have nothing to lose by ordering your individual teachers license today!

* Lifetime Access is defined as the lifetime of the website www.instantprintmusiclessons.com under its current ownership of The Fun Music Company Pty Ltd. Should the Fun Music Company sell or close the website at any time in the future then you will be given fair warning via email to your last known email address, at which time you will have an opportunity (at least 30 days) to download anything you wish from the website prior to its closure. This being said, however there is very little chance the website will close anytime soon, as The Fun Music Company is dedicated to supporting music teachers for many years to come! Thanks for reading the fine print - there isn't any tricks here!