Metronome Momentum Music Practice Game
A metronome is a practice tool that produces a steady pulse (or beat) to help musicians play rhythms accurately. The pulses are measured in beats-per-minute (BPM). Once believed to have been developed on the suggestion of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven and ascribed...
Roll the Dice Music Practice Game
The first written records of dice being used are found in the ancient Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, which was composed in India more than 2,000 years ago. However, cubical dice with markings very similar to those found on modern dice have been found in Chinese...
Snakes and Ladders Music Practice Game
Deeply rooted in the philosophical concept of good and bad - heaven and hell morals - the game we now know as Snakes and Ladders is thought to have originated in ancient India as a Hindu game known by names such as Moksha Patamu, Mokshapat, or Gyan Chaupar. As one of...
Tic-Tac-Toe Music Practice Game
Tic-tac-toe, or naughts and crosses, is a quick and fun game of logic that can be played almost anywhere, as long as you have a pen and some paper. Did you know that it may in fact be the oldest game in the world, having been played in the Roman Empire over 2100 years...
Scrap Book Music Practice Game
In the 1800s the term “scrap book” was first used to define “a book with blank pages for pasting items into.” For this Music Practice Game, we are going to use a book with blank pages to create a fun visual representation of what the music student achieves aurally...
The Many Benefits of Group Music Classes
In the Elsternwick Rainbow Room at Music Works Magic, music education for children from newborn through to school age is based on the understanding that music is a journey which has so many benefits to offer the growing brain, and not a race to be run...
The Importance of a Quality Music Diet
In 1951 Zoltán Kodály said, "What a child has heard in his first six years of life cannot be eradicated later. Thus it is too late to begin teaching at school, because a child stores a mass of musical impressions before school age, and if what is bad predominates,...
Never Too Young For Music
Parents often question the validity of enrolling an infant into music classes asking, ‘Isn’t my child too young?’Music is a Language Instinctively, we don’t wait until a child can speak before we talk to them. We immerse them in language from birth and often even...