Patent ID: 7005569
Filing Date: 2006-02-28
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. A method of facilitating the learning of music score reading in the playing of keyboard instruments by imparting to a student an understanding of the relational distance between lines and spaces on a score for white keys on a keyboard and the correlation among the white keys of the keyboard in terms of tone intervals, said white keys being represented by both the lines and spaces of the score, said method comprising the steps of fingering up the keyboard on two black keys; fingering down the keyboard on two black keys; playing two notes constituting the interval of a 2nd at the same time by simultaneously striking two adjacent white keys, repeating the step throughout the length of the keyboard, fingering up the keyboard in 2nds from one white note to a second, neighboring white note; fingering down the keyboard in 3rds from one note, skipping over the adjacent white key to the subsequent white key playing two notes constituting the interval of a third at the same time by simultaneously striking two white keys separated by one white key, and repeating the step throughout the length of the keyboard; and continuing with steps 4 through 6 with respect to 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, 7ths and octaves.