Primary music

Music Theory

Blob chorus: ear training
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Train your musical ear! This delightful activity will test your ability to pick out a note from a sequence. If you're finding it too easy increase the size of the choir.

Musical pitch - blob chorus game
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Listen carefully! In this activity you must arrange the blobs according to their pitch.

Tempo: moonlander game
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Use your knowledge of the musical terms for tempo to gently land your spaceship on the pads in the correct order.

Dynamics
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Complete the table by dragging the terms and symbols to the correct position.

Describing mood: glossary games
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A compendium of games and activities to ensure you know the key-terms and their definitions: jigsaw puzzle, cloud-click quiz, hangman, anagrams and our ever popular froggy-spelling challenge.

Notes and rests
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Complete the table by dragging the notes and rests to the correct position.

Note symbols and names: pairs game
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Match the note symbol to its name. This game requires a good memory as well as knowledge of this subject area.

Rests: pairs game
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Match the rest symbol to the note name with the same duration. This game requires a good memory as well as knowledge of this subject area.

Rhythm patterns: easy
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Click on the rhythm pattern that matches the beat you hear! (scoresheet)

Rhythm patterns: medium
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Click on the rhythm pattern that matches the beat you hear! (scoresheet)

Rhythm patterns: hard
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Things are starting to get tricky now so listen carefully and then click on the rhythm pattern that matches what you hear! (scoresheet)

Time signatures
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In this activity you must identify the correct time signature by looking at the sample of sheet music.

Circle of fifths
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This interactive diagram shows the relationships between the major and minor keys and their key signatures.

Key signatures
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In this activity you must drag sharps or flats into the correct position on the staff to make the key signature for the given key.

Degrees of the scale
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Complete the table by dragging the technical names for the notes of the scale to the correct position.

Building scales
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In this innovative application you learn about the scales by first building them and then listening to them. Major, minor, pentatonic, blues, whole-tone and chromatic scales are covered. If you're feeling creative you can design and listen to your very own scale.

Transposing scales
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Learn how scales transpose with this novel application. Pick a musical scale and change the tonic note to see which notes you should be using on our giant playable piano.

Metronome
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This giant metronome will help keep your students in time. Set up your tempo and select which beats you want to accent. You can even choose whether you want a mechanical or digital metronome. Probably the best metronome on the web!

Musical Instruments

The human voice
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Get to grips with the range of the human voice and hear what a bass, tenor, contralto, soprano and treble singer sounds like.

Instrument families: bucket sort game
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Strings, woodwind, brass or percussion? Guide the falling instrument into the bucket of the correct instrument family!

Recognising instruments by sight

Strings, woodwind, keyboard and brass: Which instrument am I?
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A quiz game where you must identify the musical instrument from a sequence of extreme close-up photographs.

Percussion: Which instrument am I?
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A quiz game where you must identify the musical instrument from a sequence of extreme close-up photographs.

World instruments
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In this activity you need to identify the musical instrument. Then, as if that wasn't enough, you've got to work out where in the world it originated from!

Composers

Composers: Quiz 2
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When you hear a piece of classical music do you know what it's called and who composed it? Here's your chance to find out!

Composers: Quiz 1
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In these games you must listen to a musical extract and match it up with the correct title of the piece, the composer's name, the composer's portrait and when the composer lived.

Composers: Quiz 3
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How well do you know your composers? Here's a game that tests your knowledge of famous composers and their music.

General resources

Metronome
Metronome Tablet enabled - iPad | Android | more...

This giant metronome will help keep your students in time. Set up your tempo and select which beats you want to accent. You can even choose whether you want a mechanical or digital metronome. Probably the best metronome on the web!

Timer
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A new improved timer that now includes a countdown timer as well as a standard timer. Some of the alarm sounds are not for those of sensitive disposition. The time is given in Hours, minutes, seconds and hundredths of a second. Handy for timed tests, exams and activities.

Class minder
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A digital assistant that keeps an eye on your class on those rare occasions when you have to pop out.

Square breathing
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Feeling stressed, anxious or overwhelmed? Take yourself to a place of peace and calm in only five minutes with this tried-and-tested technique.

Class scoreboard
Class scoreboard

Track and display scores for classroom quizzes and games with our handy tool. Choose from fun themes like 'Alien Abduction', 'In Your Face', and 'Snail Race'. Perfect for adding a competitive edge to your lessons.