Many intermediate students need lots of practice to really get to grips with note values, especially dotted notes. This is a great solo game to work on that skill and once learnt, it can easily be played during lab or theory time while you work with another student. How to Play Lay out a row … Read more
Hide and Squirrel has two great levels to suit different students. The first level covers piano chords on the piano and the second is on the staff. All the chords are either major or minor so you don’t need to get into diminished and augmented chords if your student hasn’t met those yet. How to … Read more
Do you have any students suffering from octave confusion? Playing the right notes…just in the wrong place? This is the game for you! Students work with the 5 landmark Cs and have to play each note on the piano as they work through so they get really secure on which is which and what is … Read more
Practice naming ledger line notes, but be careful! The croc might wake up and try to bite and you need to make it all the way to his head before that happens. How to Play Place a counter for each player at the bottom of the crocodile’s tail. Players take turns to turn over a … Read more
Romantic Road is a beautiful opportunity to explore the Romantic 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
This fun car-themed game is a great way for students to get the bottom number of time signatures straight. Students are asked to compare rhythms to decide if they are in 6:4 or 6:8 to move forward through the traffic jam. How to Play Place a counter for each player before the yellow car at … Read more
When students start working on interval qualities, we often start with just the intervals from the major scale so that they get really solid on those before adding minor, diminished and augmented intervals into the mix. This game is a super quick way to get some practice in on perfect and major intervals from the … Read more
Do any of your students get mixed up between dotted notes and staccato notes? This game not only gets them to identify what they’re looking at, but they also match this with their movements by bouncing on trampolines and sliding on slides. How to Play Place a counter for each player on the “start” trampoline. … Read more
Do you have any students for whom finger numbers seem to be completely invisible?! Peachy Lemons is a great way to bringing them to life. This game asks students to identify patterns as either peaches (good fingering) or lemons (bad fingering) and while not all the decisions can be this cut and dry, the main … Read more
Time Rush is all about speed, and care. If you’re first to complete the board but you were reckless getting there and had to discard lots of note values, you may still lose! This is a fun game for working on time signatures with your students, and everyone plays together so it’s a quick one … Read more