It’s been a year full of music fun and adventures at Learnatune Games and I hope your students have enjoyed playing as much as mine have! Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful holiday season and looking forward to sharing more games in 2023.
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Help! I’m a Tomato!: a piano method book
EARLY PRIMER LEVEL ‘Help! I’m a Tomato!’ is book three in a fun beginner piano adventure series. Budding detectives are immersed in a mystery designed to engage students and add fun to lessons. SUSAN’S BOOKS REVIEWS A piano adventure One day Frankie, chief mouse of the ‘Mouse Detective Agency’, hears a tap on the door….
- ABRSM music theory | Grade 1 music theory | Music adventure | Music mystery | Music teaching | Music theory | Music theory games | Note naming
Doughnuts, dogs and music theory!
One of the first music theory games I ever made is called “Who Stole My Doughnut?”. At the time I had a rather mischievous dog who enjoyed long walks, belly rubs, and playing catch. But their favourite (and most annoying!) past time was “counter surfing”. I lost count of the amount of times I’d make…
Inspiring our music students to practice
The goal of practicing is to achieve a freedom of the mind that enables one to physically do whatever they want to do. Careful practicing eventually allows one the freedom to be spontaneous, to react onstage to the moment. Yo-Yo Ma Some practice inspiration for you today. This quote by cellist Yo-Yo Ma came up…
Teaching music with dice
There are so many ways to play with dice in a music lesson! Just recently I have been using Google Dice which is a really handy tool, but I always have a real dice next to the piano to add some extra fun to learning. Here are some of the ways I use them: I’d…
Teaching music to perfectionists
Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis – it takes all the playfulness away Geri Halliwell Do you teach any perfectionists? A few years ago I inherited a piano student who was at the more extreme end of the scale. With one…
- ABRSM music theory | Music adventure | Music mystery | Music teaching | Music theory | Music theory games | Note naming | Piano | Time signatures | Treble Instruments | Woodwind
Bats and music theory
I turned on my computer first thing this morning and a rather cute bat was looking at me on the search bar. Further investigation reveals that it’s International Bat Appreciation Day! I had no idea such a thing existed, so later on today I’ll definitely be playing some bat themed music games with my students….
