Today, I wanted to post a complete gathering of all our music game freebies & bonuses for you.
Over the last week, we have been celebrating the launch of Music Game Club’s monthly membership program.
I am thrilled and excited that you can now join us in playing beautiful & educational music games with YOUR music students!
To make it easy for you, I’m dumping all of the free music game links and bonus information in this one blog post so you can get it all here.
And if you find it helpful, you can share this blog post with your teacher friends so they can get the music game freebies & bonuses too!
Music Game Freebies
Free Music Game Dynamic Den
Our first and biggest music game freebie was Dynamic Den. Dynamic Den is no longer free, but can now be purchased in our shop here.
This music game will help your music students learn dynamics from softest to loudest–all while trying to escape the hyenas!
Here’s what other teachers are saying…
“It was a hit! As soon as the game was over I had [my 13 year-old student] flip through her music book and find all the dynamic markings. It prepared her well to think about including dynamics in her new piece.” – Juli H.
“For someone to win the game, they must know all terms and definitions to know where to place the cards. In terms of practicality, this helps with internalizing the dynamic markings so that they can recognize them in sheet music.” – Ramon C.
“I love that the game is so exciting for the students! They want to play it over and over again and try to ‘attack’ each other with the hyena card. It’s really quite amusing to watch them have a lot of fun and learn about dynamics along the way!” – Rachel S.
Free Music Game Resources
In addition to Dynamic Den, we have three free resources to help you in playing music games all year with your students.
1) Music Goals Worksheet
This is by far our top freebie of last week!
This free music printable will equip you to have great conversations with your students in setting goals.
And if you need a little extra help knowing how to set goals in your music studio, read our blog post, Setting Goals with Your Piano Students in 2023.
>>> Get the free Music Goals Worksheet
2) Music Game Plan
Part of achieving goals is to create a plan to see the goals through.
We definitely hope you’re setting goals to play more music games in 2023!
This free printable will guide you in creating a “game plan” (literally). Added to that, there is an adorable extra page for “notes” that you can use for whatever you’d like.
If you’re struggling to know how to execute your music goal of playing games in lessons, read the blog post, How to Make Time for Music Games in Lessons.
>>> Download free music game plan printable here
3) Music Game Brainstorming
Slightly different than the music game plan (which helps you know the “when” to play games), the Free Music Game Brainstorming printable helps you narrow down “what” to play.
Just like the free music game plan printable, this one also has an extra sheet for “notes” that you can use for absolutely anything!
If you’re hung up on thinking a game may be too hard for a student, read our blog post How to Play Music Games With All Students & Levels.
>>> Download free music game brainstorming printable here
Music Game Bonuses – LIMITED TIME!
Unlike the music game freebies above, which never expire, these music game bonuses DO expire on January 8, 2023 and will be put in the shop at a later date.
I will admit I’m partial to both of these because they are just so much fun!
1) Stacking Snowmen Rhythm Game
Did you ever have those “mix ‘n’ match” wooden toys as a kid? My family and I had a little wooden bear that had six different faces, six shirts, and six pants.
I loved mixing and matching the outfits and expressions!
Well, Stacking Snowmen is a similar game, but with rhythms!
There are four snowmen for each meter: 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4.
Your students will love building snowmen! What’s better is that they probably won’t even realize they’re having to do a little math while they build!
To see how this is played, watch our video (don’t see the video below? Watch How to Play Stacking Snowmen here)
2) Create & Compose: Frog Pond
Composing is one of my favorite hobbies and I love making composition easy for my students.
Well, now it’s easy for your students too! They literally just have to roll a die and will come up with their own, unique composition!
This composition activity is versatile and can be used with beginning students who just know the notes of the keyboard OR for more advanced students who know chords.
To see how easy this is (and how you can use it for various levels from beginner to advanced), watch the video below (don’t see a video? Watch How to Use the Composition Activity from Music Game Club here).
>>> NOW in the shop! Get Create & Compose Frog Pond for $4.99 here
Monthly Music Game Club Membership
All of the above was in celebration of the official launch of our monthly Music Game Club membership!
Here is a glance at the first three months of Music Game Club games, so you get an idea of what you’d get as a member.
January 2023’s music game was Starfish Staff, a colorful, coral reef that will help your students master their notes names or lines and spaces (and yes, it can be played multi-level). You can now purchase Starfish Staff music note theory game in our shop.
Here’s a peek at how it’s played (this is also our official video tutorial that we include with each music game so you can very easily learn how to play the music game).
Don’t see the video below? Watch How to play Starfish Staff music theory game video tutorial here.
February 2023’s Music Game Club membership game was Counting Caterpillars, a rhythm building game in four different meters (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4). You can purchase Counting Caterpillars rhythm building music game here.
Here is a video tutorial to play Counting Caterpillars rhythm building game (don’t see the video below? Watch how to play Counting Caterpillars music game here).
March 2023’s Music Game Club membership game was Froggy Fifths, a circle of fifths game that is easily played at any level: from beginners to college-level students. You can now purchase Froggy Fifths here.
Here’s the video to show you how easy it is to introduce the Circle of Fifths to your students with Froggy Fifths. If you don’t see the video below, watch how to play Froggy Fifths here.
What you’ll sign up for at Music Game Club…
- A monthly music game (formatted for 8.5 x 11” and A4 printing)
- An exclusive Music Game Club membership group
- Video tutorials
- Themed success posters to go with the monthly game
- Bonus activity review sheet
- The cheapest our music games will ever be
The membership is only $15/month and you did read all of the above correctly.
Music Game Club monthly membership is The Easy Way to Include Music Games in Lessons.
You get so much that will help you boost student morale and make you a favorite music teacher this year.
You won’t lose the momentum and excitement all year!
Your students will start anticipating the first of every month to see what new game you will thrill them with!
Ready to join us?
>>> Sign up for monthly Music Game Club Membership here
We are looking forward to sharing a dozen music games with you this year and helping you bring more laughter and fun into your music studio!
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