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…
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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…