I made this game over the Summer to add some fun to my level 1 students’ lessons, and it’s been a hit! This game covers lots and lots of level 1 concepts so it’s perfect for reviewing towards the end of a book, and making sure nothing is missing. The game play is based off the…
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Musical Meander – Note Value and Key Name Review Game
I have a general rule with my young students (they don’t know it’s a rule, I don’t use that word much!) that if they behave well during a lesson, we play a game for the last five minutes. My lessons are full of games really, but in this case I mean a game we play…
Treble and Bass Clef Notes Dice for Music Games
More dice? Yes more dice, I don’t think you can have too many dice if you want to teach fun piano lessons! These dice can be used for the same games as the musical alphabet dice, but here’s a few more ideas to keep you going! Improvise using the scale or chord of the note…
Musical Alphabet Dice for Piano Teaching Games
Dice make everything more fun right? It’s much easier to ‘sell’ something as a game if you have a die for the student to use! There are so many possibilities for using dice like this, but here’s a few to get you started: Play all the “blank”s is great for beginning students. Try setting a…
Piano Finger Number Twister
Twister is a classic game that kids love, and the piano version is equally fun. I made 2 different spinners for this game, one for the students using regular finger numbers, and another for my Wunderkeys students. Students spin the arrow, then place the finger on the correct number. For students with less finger control…
Musical Alphabet Memory Game for Piano Students
Memory is a classic kids card game and a great way to teach that x=y. Many of my preschool piano students love this music alphabet memory game. I use two separate decks for musical alphabet memory, one is CDE and the other FGAB. This split encourages students to find the notes based on the two…
Pre-reading Games for Piano Preschoolers with Coloured Stars
For my youngest students’ first pieces, I use a system of coloured stars or circles as notation. This is for simple pieces that they play with braced 2-1 or 3-1 fingers (donuts). Most pre-reading in music books uses the letters to help in finding the notes, but I teach kids as young as 3 so…
Rockin’ Rhythms – Introducing Note Values with Jumping and Stamping
These cards are a great first introduction to note values. Before talking about what each one “means” and tackling the maths of it all. I like to get students used to the shapes and their Kodály names. It’s much more natural and intuitive to call the shape “ta” than to say “this is a crotchet, a crotchet…