There are a lot of ways of teaching music theory. When you teach it to children, you have to be creative to get their full attention and maintain it throughout the lesson. One creative way of doing so is through using music theory games.

Here are a few tips when choosing music theory games:

1) Keep the variety. Use a mix of music theory games, along with music theory worksheets

2) Look for games that concentrate on only one skill at a time. For example, pitch games should use non-specific rhythm notes, so that the student can acquire the skill to read the pitches independently of the rhythm study.

3) Make sure you don’t over-do the games. Music is a practical subject and should be kept practical throughout and theory should be kept a small part of the subject.

For more information check out these creative ideas for learning music theory

When you do learn music theory with games there are some definite advantages for both the teacher and the student to help them to Love to learn with music theory games.

1) It is less boring!
When a student learns with a game they will WANT to play it, and WANT to learn! The game will be a source of challenge. Beating the game to advance a level will be desired and therefore the children will

2) There is less chance for confusion
Games must be simple in order for them to work. Generally the game will have one specific outcome which will make a student understand one particular thing. This will give the student much less chance to get confused about the subject.

3) Information can be retained better
The old saying goes “Tell me something, I forget it, Show me something I might remember, DO something I understand”… (Something like that anyway!)

4) It is FUN!
When you play games to learn music theory students will love coming to their lessons and want to learn.

So check out the Educational Music Games that are available on the internet, and see what you might be able to include in your lessons.

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How my music school grew from 6 to over 200 students in under two years.

By Janice Tuck

When my husband and I started our music school – everyone around us thought it could’nt be done. It really hadn’t been done in our home town much and no one we knew had ever quit their day job as a teacher to go and run their own music school business. we weighed up the pros and cons of it all and decided after it all that it was a challenge that we wanted to pursue. So we went ahead and before we knew it we leased a commercial premise, found ourselves a program and we were on our first opening day ready a raring to go!

Our first term was tough- we enrolled thirty students and half of them quit within a few weeks. We coudn’t work it out – here we were fully established, credible teachers and it wasn’t working. What were we doing wrong?

We could no longer think the same as we previously did in working in schools and operate the same teaching methods because they were not working. Something we were doing was not right and we had to find out what it was quickly.

We talked to our six families that we had on board and any families which came through our doors. We asked them all the one simple question:

“What is it that you would like to get out of have music lessons for your child?”

With this information, we started implementing different ideas. The children would tell us that they enjoyed playing games and so we took this to the next level. Infact everything in our music sessions became a game of some description.Teachers never had a chance to sit down in our school – they were too busy having fun and playing games. Notes would be learn’t with stories and note races, kids would be running up to the piano with special cues, games were played learning pieces – even aural activities were a game. In general the place became a bustling games area! …. And the other thing that started happening was that we were suddenly growng out of control. We only had a small music school premises, but suddenly there was no room left in the car park, in the hallways and parents wanted to start learning in this method as well in our lunch hour!….many had told us that MUSIC HAD NEVER BEEN SO MUCH FUN! On top of this, our older students started achieving the highest exam results we had ever seen…

In essence this is what the FUN music company is about. We no longer have time to teach anymore because we are too busy packaging the ideas we have been using in our years as music teachers. It is impossible to be a teacher and to keep coming up with more and more ideas without an end in sight. So now we are ready to share these ideas with others.. so that they don’t need to be spending years getting it right. Our passion is to make music learning fun and easy for everyone at the click of a button – not just for those in our home town, but to share it around the world and increase the enjoyment of music for everyone.

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