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Giant Action Cards – Beginner Violin game
I remember using some giant cards I would hold up to teach a song to a group of students. The cards had things like ‘Sing Loud, Sing Soft, Ice-cream Lovers Sing, Stand up to Sing, Sit Down to Sing’ etc each with a different picture. I decided to make up my own set of giant […]
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Music practise at home – ‘three times in a row correct’ with sounds
Practise at home doesn’t have to become drudgery. If you keep things fresh for your kids, they can absolutely love the time they spend with their instrument. My kids love to play their pieces 3 times through (each piece) and proudly ring one of the three bells I have sitting on top of my piano […]
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The Music Alphabet Poster
Here’s something to laminate and use with your students if they are having trouble remembering the musical alphabet. You can sing the standard ‘Alphabet song’ simply repeating these 7 letters over and over throughout the song. How to vary:- Start from ‘A’ and keep working your way around. Start from any other letter and keep […]
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‘Three Times in a Row Correct’ with coloured handbells.
Aldi were selling one octave sets of coloured handbells for $15 about a year ago, so I bought a set almost expecting them to be out of tune and very dodgy (ever seen the violins they have sold? EEK!!) but to my surprise, they weren’t bad at all for that price! I will quite happily […]
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Distracting students with devious devices
I recently purchased a new distracting device with the aim of using it to distract my students whilst they play a particular song, to see if they can keep playing without, well, getting distracted. It’s an important performance technique to learn, don’t you think? The device is called a “Gotto-Go Machine” and cost me about […]
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Music rhythm game ‘Don’t clap this one back’ with rhythm flash cards
I first heard of this game through Samantha Coates at the Winter Piano Teacher’s Seminar and I loved the idea. I have tweaked it a little though. How to play:- Clap a rhythm to your students/class. They have to clap it back to you. The only rhythm they can’t clap back is “Don’t clap this […]
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‘Lesson 1 A Tune A Day’ Part 2 (young violin beginner)
There is an awful lot of pre-preparation work for younger students that needs to be done with the violin before we can begin to play the ‘dots’ on the page. The aim today with one of my littlies was to get through something on ‘Lesson 1’ from the A Tune A Day book. Even if […]
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Beginner violin symbols and notes game ‘Lesson 1 A Tune A Day’ Part 1
Little violinists (ie 3 year olds) aren’t often able to read words yet but they are quite clever at recognising symbols and patterns. I use different books for different students, depending on their needs and in part, what books I have available at the time. The music school I work for part time sprung a […]
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Violin Connect Four – violin game
One clever mother of a couple of my students suggested a Connect 4 game using some of the resources I already had. It was such a great idea, I decided to post it here. To play you will need: A Skittle Gameboard Set of flashcards ‘letter name cards’ from the skittle gamecards skittles/smarties/gummy bears etc […]
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Free violin game D to E strings
I was hunting around for violin games on the internet briefly today…just because, and I came across this site, which has a clickable violin and matching notes from the D string notes all the way up to the E string notes. Not sure why it is missing the G notes though. A simple but effective […]
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