Do you have any students who struggle with note reading? Every week you ask them what that note is in their music and they look at you blankly – or just guess. When I was learning (back in the olden days!) my teacher did lots of note drilling. This was sometimes in the form of…
Goo The Teacher has to be my students favourite music game this week! It’s a ‘Beat The Teacher‘ style game where the person standing under the goo machine when it goes off (thankfully a virtual one!) gets covered in green slime! The machine moves between teacher and student, and the only way students can pass…
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…
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…
