A jazz drumming ride pattern flip chart tool comprises at least one ride pattern card and a notation card beneath and extending beyond the ride pattern card. A sliding dowel moved to a place on the notation card indicates which drum should be struck. Each sliding dowel is positioned horizontally exactly the same distance apart as the space between the notes on the card directly above. A disk is at the top of each dowel with "R" on one side and "L" on the other side.

A learning apparatus for learning notes includes a planar, one-part or multi-part board, made of wood, cardboard, plastic, or a similar, nearly form-rigid material with a working surface, exhibiting non-removable and well-recognizable staff indicia means. The work surface is inscribable or imprintable and covered with an adhering felt layer or magnetic foil or with a foil furnished with comparable adhering means, wherein light form-parts, which are easily removable by hand, are placeable on the foil. The form-parts are shaped like all musical notation indicia and musical clef indicia used for writing down notes and are furnished at their backs with hook-and-loop adhering means or magnetic adhering means or the like adhering means. The musical notation indicia are made of metal, plastic, wood, caoutchouc or a similar, nearly form-rigid or slightly plastically deformable material provided with a color coating on their surface or are made of materials having different colors.

A simple teaching kit for use by music teachers and students at any level to illustrate the theory of music. The kit comprises representations of the treble and bass clefs and two octave sections of a piano keyboard in combination with a plurality of transparent overlays upon which the student selectively affixes a plurality of coloured stickers representing any selected scale, tonal pattern or chord pattern in any selected key.

A method and system of teaching and/or studying music theory and for aiding the practice of musical instruments according to the integration of the color spectrum with notes of the circle of fifths and rearrangement of those notes into the musical chromatic scale. This rearrangement is accomplished by rotating either set of notes (spaced at whole-tone intervals) in the circle of fifths by 180 degrees. The musical chromatic scale arrangement of colors is then applied to various instruments. Diagrams representing the various note/color patterns as they appear on the various color-coded instruments are also provided. Scale and/or chord charts or diagrams for various instruments are also provided. The inventive color code is also applied to tablature, as well as to inventive forms of music notation.

An educational game for teaching children how to read music by teaching them the locations of musical notes on a musical staff. The game which may be played by two or more players includes a game mat having a flat playing surface with musical clef and staff indicia depicted thereon, and a means for selecting musical notes such as playing cards or a spinner type indicator having the musical notes printed thereon. The game is played by one player selecting a musical note by choosing a card from the deck of playing cards or spinning the spinner. Once a musical note has been selected, the player selecting the musical note communicates the musical note to the other players who are standing along one side of the game mat. The players standing along side the game mat quickly locate and stand on all of the musical note positions within the lines and spaces of the musical staff depicted on the game mat. The player who correctly locates and stands on the most musical note positions generally wins the game. A time piece indicator may be used to limit the amount of time the players have for locating and standing on all of the musical note positions on the musical staff game mat.