Divide your class into two teams. Have each team pick someone to draw for the first round. Write a number of musical terms like bass clef, eighth note and sharp symbol on slips of paper. Pull one of the paper slips and show it to the first two drawers. Whichever team shouts out the correct name first gets a point. Music has so many different styles that it can seem impossible to teach your music class appreciation for them all. You can use this game to help your high school students begin learning different musical styles.
Record excerpts from several different songs representing different musical styles. Have your students make a numbered list. Play the first excerpt and see if they can name the style.
Go through all your samples and have them keep track on their lists. I have four decks and I can play with students. Along those same lines, we have a karaoke day at the end of every six weeks.
These are the games I use most. We have a piece of music called Singing in the Choir by Donna Rhodenizer. It pokes fun at all the parts in an SATB choir. The Tenors get the lead for once. You can read the lyrics on our web site at this link. Better still we could send you a complimentary copy for your perusal. Good luck with your search. Fun and more effective than I had ever imagined when we wrote it. Change from silent to aloud back to silent on a signal.
I teach High School and I had kids draw names in pairs at random of another classmate. They then have to make up a verse of the Hoe Down about the other kid. Each verse has to contain at least 3 things about the person and they have to be nice. They get up in pairs to present their songs which I have pre-recorded on the Roland. I modeled this for them about several students to get them jump started and here is one of the verses:. I teach elementary music. Every year I play the human note game to teach the spaces and lines of the staff.
Start by creating a giant staff on the floor with tape. The spaces need to be large enough for the students to stand in. Give each child in each group a letter of the music alphabet a-g. The students then place themselves on the space or line that corresponds to their letter.
The first group to properly place themselves wins. We play it in my theatre 1 class and it really can show you just how creative us students really are. For a church choir — split them into groups, then have them re-write the words to a hymn tune. Play Encore!!! Encore is a musical game where players team or individuals must sing a phrase of a song that contains a particular word or subject.
It is a lot of fun and everyone enjoys it. Divide the class into two groups. Assign someone as timer, and another as referee. There can be some subjectivity to it. Each team is given a turn and when one team fails to give a response within the time limit, the other team advances.
The responses can be hilarious. It also promotes memory recall. August 9, No Comments. Knots Knots is a good one.
If you want to try it a second time, do it with no talking. For the second section, the person in the middle grabs someone from the circle and they dance together while everyone else stands in place. See a video demonstration of this game here. Great for your younger choirs, this circle game gets everyone singing the "call" and gives individuals a chance to sing the "response.
A song for pairs or groups of three children that includes jumping, toe-tapping, and spinning! Watch a video demonstration here. A traditional favorite, this song begins with everyone in a circle. Call out variations at the end of each verse: "to the left," "to the right," "elbow swing," etc. See an example of this song in action here. A simple song with nonsense syllables and lots of fun movements!
This would work really well with an upper elementary choir or youth choir see the Minnesota Boychoir sing it here. Have your singers sit in rows fairly close together. Talk through a few movements to get them started.
Begin singing together and call out the motions at the end of each repetition. A circle game that's reminiscent of Duck, Duck, Goose, here, the leader walks around the outside of the circle as everyone sings. At the appropriate point in the song, the leader stops behind someone, moves to the side, and moves inside the circle to face them.
On the next repetition, that person joins them in walking around the outside of the circle. Great video demonstration here. A fun singing game that gets everyone moving! Have children make two rows and face each other. For the first part of the song, children join hands with the person across from them, swing their arms back and forth, and dance in place.
For the second part, everyone takes a step back and a child from one end takes a turn doing a dance improv down the middle. Everyone else imitates their dance moves as they sing. Here's a fun video to show you what this looks like. This fun twist on the traditional spelling bee gives singers an opportunity to put their knowledge into practice by demonstrating various musical concepts. Have six or so singers stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a straight line.
Beginning at one end, give each child a musical concept to demonstrate e. If the child is incorrect, he or she must sit down, and a concept is given to the next in line.
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