How to help primer students with this easy composition activity

If your very beginning student only knows the white notes on the piano, they can still create their own composition. Some students are timid about making up music on their own, so rolling a die will encourage them to put notes on paper to start their own little melody.

How to help beginner students with this easy composition activity

Once a student understands triads, they can easily create compositions in the Key of C. Their compositions can either be chord-based or they can start by writing simple melodies based on the chords the die gave them.

How to help intermediate students with this easy composition activity

Even students who have mastered their chords can use this easy composition activity to learn how to write melodies with passing tones, neighbor tones, and more. 

Even more options for this easy composition activity

If your student is fluent in the keys of C, G, and F, you can expand this composition activity to cover all three keys with key changes to transition from one to the next. Staff paper is also included so your students can transcribe their composition if they’d like. Use this easy composition activity in group lessons. Give each student a die and have them all work at the same time to fill out their composition page. Play through each student’s composition and see how beautiful they all are. Use this easy composition activity to work on different rhythms. You can begin with chording in quarter notes, but as the student gets confident in their chords, assign them different rhythms to apply to their composition. The options are endless… and all you need is a die.