by PianoTels | Feb 5, 2019 | Teaching Games & Activities
This active game really helps to get the steady beat and rhythm in the students head as they walk to the beat of the tempo. This is a game of lots of fun and laughter! Level: Beginner to Intermediate Objective: To review tempo meanings & gain an internal rhythm...
by PianoTels | Feb 5, 2019 | Teaching Games & Activities
This is one of my all time favorite ways of helping the students to recognize intervals by sight. This has a lot to do with repetition, but the students hardly even recognize that they are learning the intervals by repetition because they are consumed in the game....
by PianoTels | Feb 5, 2019 | Teaching Games & Activities
Dynamic Pictionary is exactly what it sounds like — it is a dynamic version of Pictionary! It is dynamic because it reviews dynamic terms and symbols, and it is dynamic because the students really get excited about it! This game causes the students to think...
by PianoTels | Feb 5, 2019 | Teaching Games & Activities
Musical Spit-It-Out! is one of the best, last minute games to pull together. It only takes a couple minutes to play and takes absolutely no preparation beforehand. This is a great way to get the brain thinking! Level: Beginner to Intermediate Objective: To review...
by PianoTels | Feb 5, 2019 | Teaching Games & Activities
Level: Beginner to Intermediate Objective: To help build sight reading skills by reviewing notes on the staff and learning to quickly correlate notes with each other (steps, skips, etc.). A player wins when he/she has consecutive notes that either ascend or descend....
by PianoTels | Feb 4, 2019 | Teaching Games & Activities
Chords Snakes and Ladders is a fun teaching piano game for reviewing chords. The game play is just like the original Snakes and Ladders games, but this time with a musical twist. The cards are chords and they must be able to identify the chord before they can...
by PianoTels | Feb 4, 2019 | Teaching Games & Activities
Go, Chord, Go! Is a game that I love to play with my students because it causes them to review and know the basic major and minor chords by sight without them even realizing it! This game is a variation of Go, Fish! Level: Beginner to Intermediate Objective: To...
by PianoTels | Feb 4, 2019 | Blog, Learn Piano
There are so many methods of learning the piano out there with so many variations. Learning the chords in the piano has become something you may have heard about as it has become more and more of a hot topic. But why learn piano chords? Learning the chords while...
by PianoTels | Jan 31, 2019 | Teaching Games & Activities
Musical Headbanz really tests your knowledge! Students get to interact with one another and work together to help each other figure out what is on their head. Yep, this is the game to really help students get it in (or at least on) their head! 🙂 Level:...
by PianoTels | Jan 30, 2019 | Teaching Games & Activities
Don’t eat Pete! has got to be one of the best go-to games. It is super fast to pull together, will work with about a million different subjects, and students love it. Level: Beginner to Advanced Objective: To review just about anything! ...