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“Wow, I like your product! It’s VERY hard to please me. There is so much JUNK on the web, but I am definitely impressed with your Slide-a-Note.”
—Lisa,
www.learnpianoonline.com
“I have been teaching piano for over 30 years now. Because I also have a degree in Special Education, I have had the opportunity to teach students with many different learning styles. I welcome the challenge and opportunity to teach students with autism, ADD and dyslexia, or any other ‘ism.’ I enjoy the students who have the wonderful talent of ‘playing by ear’ and those who are better at sight reading. The thing is, they all need to identify notes on the staff, and some really struggle with that. My student and I spent one lesson using Slide-a-Note without the piano. She had memorized the music alphabet up and down and so with the orientation of Middle C she was able to figure out the note names of each of the songs in her Primer Level books. I had her go home and label those notes and the result was miraculous! She was able to move the slider to the proper spot on the staff and then identify its name on the keyboard. Because there are no letter names on this note finder, there could be no ‘cheating’ in figuring out notes. Then if needed, she had a way to find her place on the keyboard. It is so exciting to see her finally having success and moving forward. I told her the other day that I was proud of her accomplishment and she asked incredulously, ‘You’re proud of ME?’ She was so pleased and her confidence is growing. After this experience, I sought out the seller, (a very nice man, by the way!) and told him I wanted to get this gadget into each of the homes I go to, where someone struggles in this area. I was able to purchase a discounted teacher’s packet of ten and I received it just the other day. I believe this is going to make a huge difference for at least half my students and that it is a wonderful addition to my piano teaching ‘toolbox!’ Thank you, Sound Feelings!”
—Julie Brinkley, Piano Teacher
Monroe, WA
“I found slide-a-Note while searching Google images for SOME WAY to put together a picture of a keyboard alongside of a staff. I noticed that some music and piano students were continuing to have trouble with relating the concept of the movement along the keyboard with the movement of the notes on the staff. Slide-a-Note was the perfect, better answer to what I was going to try to create. I have used it extensively during private lessons and in teaching music theory classes. I plan to incorporate it more in group choral and instrumental instruction as well.”
—Debra Arce-Carr
Director, Talents Unleashed, Inc.
Miami, FL
“A superb tool and an invaluable aid memoir when writing out the musical arrangements for the Quire, especially as we have some old instruments of the late 18th & early 19th centuries. I have copies of manuscript books of music from the old quires of Norfolk’s village churches. Written in old hand, they are not too easy to read and so take a considerable amount of time to transcribe into ‘Muse Score.’ I then publish in pdf form for my fellow quiristers to print out for their own manuscript books. Thanks to ‘Slide a Note’ for helping my aged grey matter in accomplishing this task.”
—Alan Hollingdale
Retired Engineering Draughtsman
Musical Director, The Norfolk Gallery Quire
Norfolk, UK
“Just exactly what I need for my beginners.”
—Janet Soller, Ph.D.
www.alphamajor.com
“Finally, a visual aid showing the spatial relationship between the keyboard and the grand staff. Excellent product for beginning level private or group piano teachers.”
—Bret Nelson
LAUSD piano instructor and private studio
www.eastviewmusic.com
“Until I found Slide-A-Note, a student was severely restrained because he could not locate where the notes were on the keyboard. I gave him the Slide-A-Note at his last lesson, and now, one week later, he was showing me where the notes are. This is a triumph in my student’s life and in mine! Thank you for this product.”
—David A. Bushnell Bachelor of Music, Piano Performance,
Piano Instructor and Musician,
member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Zeta Delta chapter,
Clermont, FL
“A simple concept. easy to use for all ages. Recommended for beginners having trouble identifying notes on the staff. This is a fun way to test students and their ability to read and find the keys on the piano.”
—Cara Kim
Orange, CA
“It’s a good idea and makes it easier for kids to know and learn.”
—Lily Chu
Yorba Linda, CA
“It’s easy to associate note-reading with keyboard placement. it’s fun to play. My daughter who is 7 years old thinks it’s great to play with.“
—Ting-Ju Lai, Ph.D.
Certificate of Merit Chair, Hacienda Heights, CA MTAC
“It is a very good idea to combine learning the notes on the staff and on the piano.”
—Loc-Ha Le, Piano Teacher
San Diego, CA
“What a great tool to show the relationship between the staff and where they ‘live’ on the piano.”
—Kristina Soriano
“I think that this product is good because it helps students to remember which notes go with which keys. It helps to be able to remember the note positions when reading music and helps to eventually know the notes when reading music from memory. I would definitely recommend this product to piano students of all levels.
—Benjamin Stohs
San Diego, CA
“This product is great for all students to feel comfortable with the whole grand staff.“
—Joanne Stohs
www.rousselchamberplayers.com
“Because the music and the keyboard are perpendicular to each other, this makes sense of it for a beginning reader.“
—Jan Kravets, Piano Teacher
Santa Monica, CA
“This is wonderful. I will have every one of my beginning students us it!“
—Karen Wallace, Piano Teacher
Houston, TX
“I think it’s a really good idea to help beginners to read notes quickly, including the leger lines.”
—Shinyoung Kim, Piano Teacher
“Slide-a-note shows the relationship of notes to staff. It can be used in place of flash cards for a quick review at lesson time.”
—Diane Bloomer
Los Angeles, CA
“The vertical placement of the keyboard correlating to the up and down on the staff is a great visual aid for students who are learning to read notes.“
—Nancy Arnold, Piano Teacher
Los Angeles, CA
“Looks like a great and fun way to learn notes.“
—Debbie Moore, Piano Teacher
San Diego, CA
“I use this in my studio to help establish the location of the grand staff on the piano. It helps develop a spacial recognition from the score directly to the keyboard without having to translate from note names.“
—Henry N. Allain, Sight-Reading Development
www.rvpianos.com
“This takes the concept of the ‘Note-Finder’ one more important step for the student — namely, seeing the relationship of the vertical note staff with the horizontal plane of the keyboard. Great idea!!”
—Robert Bowman, DMA
Chico, CA
“A great successor to the old ‘Note-Finder’ that I learned notes on when I was six. I love that it’s flat and will fit in a folder.“
—Ginny Atherton
Flutist, Orchestra Teacher/Conductor, LAUSD
“I think ‘slide-a-Note’ is a very useful tool for all music teachers to teach their students at the very beginning to help recognize notes, especially to use in groups. Also, it is helpful to show the relationship of the keyboard and the grand staff. I love it!!“
—Lin Pan, Assistant professor of Shanghai Conservatory of Music
www.clvpa.com
Santa Clara, CA
