Patent ID: 8686268

Claim:
A system of associating sheet music notation with keyboard keys of a keyboard instrument and sight reading, the keyboard instrument including a keyboard having first and second octaves and twelve depressible white and black keys in each of said first and second octaves, said system comprising: a portable rectilinear colored strip having an upper surface and a lower surface; said lower surface of said rectilinear colored strip adapted to be disposed upon said keyboard instrument adjacent to said keyboard; said colored rectilinear strip having a color-coded indicia disposed on said upper surface thereof, said indicia having a direct relationship to each of said octaves and each of said depressible keys; said indicia including first and second sets of markings with twelve markings in each of said first and second sets corresponding to and complementary to said first and second octaves and said twelve depressible keys in each of said first and second octaves; each of said first and second sets of markings including seven wide markings corresponding to and complementary to said white keys of the keyboard and five narrow markings corresponding to and complementary to said black keys of the keyboard; each of said wide markings of said first set being color-coded with a first color and each of said wide markings of said second set being color-coded with a second color, said first color being different from said second color; and a musical notation including musical notes corresponding to at least one of the first and second octaves such that at least one of said musical notes of said musical notation being color-coded with the same color as one of said first and second sets of markings on said colored rectilinear strip in direct correlation to said indicia.