The benefits of learning through playing games are enormous. Games help to inspire,motivate and learn much quicker and with much more fun.
In order to become sucessful at music, most people think that you need to sit at the piano every time you practice for a half an hour each day. This is a myth and is simply not true.
If you want your children to be great at music and therefore able to receive the full benefits of music at a young age, then it is important to mix up music practice at home and make it just as fun as any other fun activity you do at home.
Here are three examples of traditional well known games and instructions, you could play in your next home practice session with your children to help make practice more inspiring, varied and fun!
Musical Go Fish
Materials To make: 1) You will need to make 8 cards of the same size with different musical symbols or notation on each.
Using your printer, make two copies of the cards sheets you have just prepared. This will make 16 cards altogether to use in the game.
Objective: The rules are based on the classic version of "Go Fish".
To match same cards to make a pair. Pairs are placed in front of each player until there are none remaining in their hand. The first one with all cards down is the winner!
Preparation: Deal five cards to each player (can use more or less if desired to make game shorter or longer). Extra cards go in the middle face down on a pile.
Directions: Player 1 asks player 2 of their choice if they have one of their cards. Player 2 either passes over the card or if they don't have it says "GO FISH!". If the result is "GO Fish!" then player 1 picks up a card from middle pile. Every player has a turn until someone matches all cards in their hand and "Goes Out".
Musical Snakes and Ladders
Object: To get to the top of the game board first.
Preparation: 1)Make musical dice for the level you require.
2) Find a traditional snakes and ladders game board, or make up your own based on the traditional version. Place the game board in the middle of the playing area.
3)Find a counter or button for each player.
Directions: All counters are to be placed at the start. Each player in turn rolls dice, add the number of beats together and moves accordingly.
You can play the game with more than one dice if you would prefer the game to move faster.
There will be ladders to climb and snakes to fall down in the process of playing the game. This is a fun game of luck and skill!
Musical Snap
Preparation: 1)You will need to make a deck of 48 cards. Make 12 cards using musical pitches and / or notation and photocopy the four times.
Object: Two matching cards in a row wins the snap.The player with the most cards wins!
How To Play: Divide the playing cards up equally between players have two cards face up to start off two piles in the middle. Each player takes in turn to place their card on top of one of the two piles in the middle, until the two piles match. When a match occurs the first player to call out snap, and puts their hand over the piles wins those cards. The player with the most cards in the end wins!
Standards For Music Education
Music education makes you smart. Smart people educate themselves with music. Both are true to an extent. What is it about music that increases you brains efficiency? From a teacher's standpoint, the answers are quite obvious. Because music education is such a broad topic, let's condense it to the studying of an instrument... more specifically the piano.
Teachers have noticed through the years that students seem to get sharper mentally with every lesson. Even the ones that don't practice a lot seem sharper at the end of a lesson as compared to the beginning? although many teachers can think of a couple of past students who seemed to get more sluggish with every lesson. Thankfully, those types of pupils were the exception rather than the rule. So what aspects of mental capacity are improved by piano playing?
Hand eye coordination vastly improves with instrumental training on the piano. You can better judge distances between notes while playing of notes simultaneously, and there are a whole list of coordination demands that come from the gradual improving of fine motor skills.
Reading skills expand. If you think of music as a language, you are constantly improving your musical vocabulary with more compositions and technical exercises.
Memory, both visual and touch, is given a workout. In this regard, the phrase ?use it or lose it? comes to mind. Musicians who constantly memorize new pieces just seem to be sharp in the memory capacity, provided they have a fairly healthy lifestyle.
EQ is forced to develop when performing the works of other composers. You really must feel and understand what a composer felt when composing a work; you will have trouble performing the work effectively for others if you don't.
Apart from studying the piano, the study of theory and history go hand in hand with the study of any instrument. Knowing about the history of a composer helps you to interpret a piece and improves your music knowledge base. Interpretive improvement is also achieved through the comprehension of a piano piece's structure. This understanding is obtained through theory knowledge. Music theory is often compared with math and it can be improved gradually, provided the student has a sound foundation.
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