Star Seekers could be played at the first lesson with an older newbie, or in the first few months for younger students. In this game students must give the time name or number of beats of basic note values to progress around the board and be victorious. How to Play Each player places a counter … Read more
Young students need to move in order to really focus. Draw a Silliness Siesta card every time your student’s attention starts to drift – take the 2-3 minute break – and then get back to business at the piano. How to Use Use these cards whenever you feel your student’s energy and focus is starting … Read more
Drilling Italian music terms is not what most kids would call fun. But jumping around and trying to convey “Giocoso” to other students without words? Now that sounds like a hoot! How to Play Put all the cards in a hat or bag. Choose the first performer and ask them to draw a card from … 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
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
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
Note stem rules are one of those music theory concepts that are so dry there doesn’t seem to be any way to spice them up…until now. Act fast and think quick to smash those incorrect note stems before your opponent! How to Play Divide the deck between the two players and place the stacks side … 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