I can’t remember how I found it now, but here’s a great site with music game ideas. There are a bunch of different ideas…the perfect place to find your next group game! I think the game titled, “Melody,” looks like a fun option for a group of young beginning students. You can also check out […]
Game Ideas
This Week in Photos
You will notice a common element in each of the following pictures. They are all a variation of the same game. I affectionately call it “The Dice Game.” Here are the basics of how it works: * One die has the words “up” and “down” on it; the other one has either “steps” and “skips” […]
This Week in Photos
Graham and I played the rhythm chart game and then when I went to take a picture, he fell to his knees and exclaimed, “Please, have mercy!” Never a dull moment during his lessons, huh? 🙂 My new little beginner, Emily, continues to amaze me! I gave her the assignment of memorizing the alphabet backwards […]
This Week in Photos
Addi and Holly love playing games at their lesson, so this week we started with a fun mystery note game. Each of them chose a colored game piece and placed it on the designated starting key on their piano. I sat in my chair and turned around backwards. Then I would call out instructions like, […]
Music Memory Game
Last Friday I hosted our local music teachers association meeting at my studio and we had a great time sharing game and activity ideas. In the course of talking with one of the other teachers, I was reminded of this Music Memory game that I made up years ago for a small beginner level music […]
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Chord Sharing Prompted by one of the suggestions given in the improvising workshop I attended at the state conference earlier this month, I pulled one scale block from the jar (D) and instructed my high school student to see how many different chords she could come up with that contained the D. She went through […]
