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Improvisation ideas and alternative notation for pupils who do not read and more. Read about the benefits experienced by learning disabled people when they have been given the opportunity to play a musical instrument. See what has been done by others.

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Join in discussions and share ideas about teaching and learning musical instruments for and by the learning disabled. Encourage others with your success stories.

Alternative Notation

Written music notation is a means of communication between the composer and the performer.  It is not an end in itself.  Here are several different ways of notating Jingle bells.  Note that there is a consistency of always using red for the left hand and green for the right.  All of these methods have proved successful with students with Down's Syndrome. 

The manuscript versions which have the letter name of the note inside the note head is a notational system being developed by Fiona Lane which we hope will soon be available here for all to use.