Note Knacks® is the simple hands-on method for making music literacy accessible to all!

I love it! I love it! Getting 5th graders who don’t want to do anything – but they will use these! Note Knacks have brought some new joy to my class and my teaching!” – Josh Bradford, Ft. Worth ISD, TX

The Note Knacks® method is taught in dozens of school systems, including:

Atlanta Public Schools, GA

Birmingham City Schools, AL

Boston Public Schools, MA

Chatham-Savannah County Public Schools, GA

Clayton County Public Schools, GA

Cypress Fairbanks ISD, TX

Dallas ISD, TX

Decatur City Schools, GA

Denver Public Schools, CO

El Paso ISD, TX

Fort Worth ISD, TX

Hamilton County Schools, TN

Marietta City Schools, GA

Paulding County Schools, GA

Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County Schools, NC

Ysleta ISD, TX

….just to name a few!

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Latest Blog Posts

A Last-Minute Lesson

As the year comes to a close, we are all looking for simple fun lessons that still get in a bit of teaching but will hold the children’s attention as their thoughts wonder to summer activities ….as do ours! Here is such a lesson! I did it with my first grade and they loved it! […]

Lesson Builder 2

It occurred to me that my third graders may not be ready to play multiple parts at once, as I only started in January and their last music teacher left early in the fall. I looked at the rhythms they composed for the word tambourine and was looking forward to playing them simultaneously ~ must […]

Bears and Bass Bars Tweaked

Today my kindergarteners and I had a lot of fun with the Three Bears! Last class we associated each bear with a particular bass bar. For this class, I wanted to say the words “someone’s been eating my porridge” (etc.….) in a specific rhythm, as detailed in last week’s newsletter (Click HERE for lesson and […]

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