Explore the KeyNotes Curriculum
Discover how KeyNotes brings piano skills, musicianship, creativity and collaborative learning together within one connected curriculum.
Take a closer look at the KeyNotes programs, our approach to progression and differentiation, and the musical learning that develops across the KeyNotes pathway.
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More than learning to play the notes.
KeyNotes develops piano skills within a broader musical experience, helping students understand, apply and create with the ideas they encounter.
Playing & Technique
Developing coordination, control and physical confidence at the piano.
Reading & Understanding
Connecting notation, keyboard geography and musical understanding.
Rhythm & Aural Skills
Experiencing pulse, rhythm and sound through listening, movement and performance.
Creativity
Improvising, composing and making musical choices throughout the curriculum.
Communication
Developing expression, intention and confidence in communicating musical ideas.
Learning Together
Listening, responding, creating and performing with and alongside other learners.
The group itself is part of the learning.
KeyNotes isn't six individual piano lessons happening in the same room. The group itself is part of the learning.
Students listen to one another, perform together, explore musical ideas, solve problems, create, respond and learn through shared musical experiences.
The teacher guides and facilitates that learning, creating opportunities for children to discover ideas with and through others while still developing their own individual piano skills.
Musical understanding doesn't develop in a straight line.
KeyNotes revisits important ideas in new contexts, allowing students to deepen their understanding and apply familiar concepts with increasing independence and complexity.
This spiral structure also makes the curriculum flexible. Teachers can respond to different levels of experience within the same class, offering support or challenge while keeping students connected through a shared musical focus.
A curriculum designed to grow with the learner.
KeyNotes provides a pathway from early musical exploration through to increasingly independent and advanced piano learning.
Pre-Notes
First musical experiences at the piano.
Little KeyNotes
Playful exploration and early piano foundations.
Storytellers
Musical learning through stories, creativity and play.
KeyNotes Play
Creative, collaborative piano learning for older beginners.
Foundations
Developing increasingly secure and independent musicianship.
Progression
Continuing towards more advanced piano learning.
Materials designed to make musical ideas visible, practical and memorable.
KeyNotes combines structured learning with practical, creative experiences that help students make connections between what they hear, see, understand and play.
- Student workbooks and curriculum materials
- Improvisation and composition
- Creative and practical musical activities
- Resources for different ages and stages
- Reading, rhythm, technique and musicianship
- Support and additional challenge
The structure is there. The teacher brings it to life.
KeyNotes provides a clear curriculum framework, lesson guidance, resources, materials and activities — without turning teaching into following a script.
Teachers can respond to the learners in front of them, use their professional judgement and adapt activities while working within a structure that supports consistency and progression.
Playful. Purposeful. Connected.
Playful.
Children explore musical ideas through games, movement, stories, creativity and practical musical experiences that make learning engaging and memorable.
Purposeful.
Every activity sits within a structured curriculum designed to develop piano skills, musicianship and increasingly independent musical understanding.
Connected.
Students learn with and from one another through listening, creating, problem-solving, performing and shared musical experiences.
Take a closer look inside KeyNotes.
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