When your students can easily identify triple and quadruple metre aurally, it’s much easier for them to make this clear in their playing. This game includes aural samples but I recommend playing examples in real time so that you can adapt more easily to your students’ level and help them have success. How to … Read more
Take the confusion out of 7th chords with Yummy Yum! This super fun game will have your students identifying major, minor, diminished and dominant seventh chords. Be prepared for a few food fights and broken plates as students work their way across the table to the finish. How to Play Place a counter for each … Read more
Help has arrived for your late intermediate level students who need some extra work with their melodic minor scales. Melodic Me! is an engaging game designed to help struggling students visualise and understand scales more thoroughly. How to Play If using laminated cards and whiteboard/dry erase markers, give one to each student. If using small … Read more
Test your student’s ability to figure out major or minor pentascales with the game, PentaPOP! They can either complete the scales by memory or pattern, major or minor. This quick and flexible game is perfect for all beginners! HOW TO PLAY Put the keyboard board in the middle of the players. Students take turns to … Read more
Your students are bound to become strong note readers with Swifterval! Students work as quickly as possible to identify 2nds, 3rds and 5ths. How to Play Pick out one 2nd, 3rd and 5th card (written, not on the staff) and place them face up in front of the players. Shuffle the rest of the cards … Read more
Can your students make their way along the creepy corridor towards safety? They’ll need to be interval naming pros (including the quality if they’re ready for that) to get to the end. HOW TO PLAY Place a counter for each player on the “start here” row of floor tiles at the bottom of the board. … Read more
This game is played all at once so there’s absolutely no waiting around! Students need to quickly decipher whether rhythms are in 3:8, 3:4 or 3:2 to win. How to Play Shuffle the cards and deal 9 to each player if there are 2 players or 6 if there are 3 players Turn over the … Read more
This is a fantastically fast-paced game and a wonderful way to speed up your students’ interval recognition. There’s no way to win without thinking quickly! If you wish to purchase a hardcopy of this game, you can do that here. How to Play Shuffle the cards and deal 7 to each player. (If playing with … Read more
Baroque Boulevard is a beautiful opportunity to explore the Baroque era, with plenty of silliness thrown in! This game will not “test” your students’ knowledge but rather give them information to spark curiosity and actions and discussion points to make their new knowledge stick. HOW TO PLAY Place a token for each player on the … Read more
Railway Rhythms combines easy rhythms with time signatures to create an activity that’s part game, part composition. Constructing rhythms in this way will help your students to get inside how rhythm works, at the very beginning stages. How to Play Each player draws a Rhythm Engine card at random and places it face up in … Read more