The idea of Rhythm Vocab cards is to gradually build up a rhythm vocabulary with our students. When students have this vocabulary they won’t need to decipher and analyse each rhythm – it will instinctively come to mind. There are many ways to use these cards in your lessons and make them part of your … Read more
The idea of Rhythm Vocab cards is to gradually build up a rhythm vocabulary with our students. When students have this vocabulary they won’t need to decipher and analyse each rhythm – it will instinctively come to mind. There are many ways to use these cards in your lessons and make them part of your … Read more
The idea of Rhythm Vocab cards is to gradually build up a rhythm vocabulary with our students. When students have this vocabulary they won’t need to decipher and analyse each rhythm – it will instinctively come to mind. There are many ways to use these cards in your lessons and make them part of your … Read more
The idea of Rhythm Vocab cards is to gradually build up a rhythm vocabulary with our students. When students have this vocabulary they won’t need to decipher and analyse each rhythm – it will instinctively come to mind. There are many ways to use these cards in your lessons and make them part of your … Read more
It can be very frustrating when students keep skipping over rests, disrupting the overall flow and breaking the beat of the piece. Using these Rest Savers make rests the best part of the music by giving students fun and silly actions which draw their attention to the rests. How to Use Put all the cards … Read more
Relative Rhythm cards are one my favourite tools for students of all ages. The idea is really very simple: all the note values are represented in relative size to each other. So, a crotchet (quarter note) is half the width of a minim (half note) and double the width of a quaver (eighth note). Use … Read more
Musical Meander can be used two ways, to review note values, or the names of the piano keys. This is a wonderful, simple and quick game to use with your pre-reading students and works great as an off-bench break for wriggly students. How to Play Keys Version Place the game counters on the start star. … Read more
Music maths is a great way to practice note values, especially as students advance and we get into more fractions of beats. But we don’t really want our students to think about note values in numbers, more in relative terms – which is why in this game they match music maths equations to larger note … Read more
Haunted Hillwalk is a comprehensive music theory game that tests intermediate students’ understanding of intervals, rhythms, notes and terms. This is an excellent game to use in preparation for an upcoming test or exam, or at any spookily themed occasion. How to Play Place a game token for each player on the “Start” space. Shuffle … Read more
Fiendish Fishiness is a super fun game for reviewing a variety of music concepts for students at the late beginner level, or those between level 1 and level 2 of most method book series. Instead of a die, students move forward using interval cards and need to answer questions if they want to keep their … Read more