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, […]
Game Ideas
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 […]
This Week in Photos
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 […]
Music Bingo Cards
As I was working on a project this evening, I stumbled across this site that has a variety of music bingo cards. In the music category, they have: Famous Composers, Musical Instruments, Notation, and Orchestral Instruments. Just download the Bingo Printer software and you can immediately start using the pre-programmed selections. However, for $21.95 you […]
This Week in Photos
Whack It! This was Emily’s third week of lessons and we were drilling the names of the keys on the piano. She really struggled with this last week, so I had come up with this Whack It! game to play during her lesson. However, she had worked so hard during the week that she bumped […]
This Week in Photos
I’m thinking of starting a new weekly post idea…throughout the week I’ll take pictures of various activities and lessons in my studio and then on Friday I’ll put up a post with a couple of favorite pictures. What do you think? Since I’m leaving tonight for our annual state music teachers conference, I’ll post this […]













