Picture the scene … drifting in deep space, the hungry astronaut opens the food cupboard hoping to find a pizza to cook for tea. But all he finds are some crumbs and a surprised alien looking back at him! Aliens Love Pizza is an online game (playable on a tablet, computer, laptop or smartphone in…
Last week Annie came bounding into her lesson, excitedly plonked her music book on the piano and ran straight to my hall of fame. “Oh yes”, she exclaimed, “I’m still at the top of the leaderboard in ‘Don’t Wake Lenny’! Can we play it again today because I don’t want Jack to beat my score?”….
As a teacher the drag and drop notes are incredible! I love how I can tailor it to the range of notes a beginner knows, or focus on a particular set of notes that are recent and relevant. Music Teacher In Jack’s last piano lesson we visited the desert searching for treasure. We were doing…
“Learning should always be fun. They should be having a ball. It’s amazing how much they remember when it is fun” Dan Grable Where I live it’s almost the end of the long summer holidays and students are about to head back to school. So it’s that time of year when I open up the…
Many years ago I taught a new learner who was what you might call a ‘reluctant sight-reader’. They pretty much guessed the notes, hitting a piano key and hoping it was correct rather than working it out properly. Frustrating, right? I found that if I corrected them as they were playing, this made it worse….
It’s summer time in the Stone Age and the cave dwellers are playing their favourite game. Every year they play chicken with the falling rocks to see who will be the champion. Every year there is one winner ….. Fearless Fred! But will he win again? This music theory game is part of a collection of…
You find yourself in the basement of a local school. A mobile phone is lying discarded on the floor and a window has been smashed. But what is going on? Only your musical detective skills can solve the case … Following on from the success of my previous musical mysteries, ‘Who Ate My Cake’ and ‘The Lost Diamond’, I…
My students are all motivated by garbage! Well, my music theory game Garbage Monsters that is. I love music studio competitions and have always found them to be highly motivating amongst my students. At the start of last term I pinned up a leaderboard for Garbage Monsters in my studio and made sure I had plenty of…
