Music Theory Note Recognition Star Game

Use this game to embed general note reading, or to familiarise a player with a new repertoire piece. Use treble or bass clef notes to focus the game as required.

Two PDF files are included - one using the English terminology ‘bar’, one using the US terminology ‘measure’.

You will need:

• One or more dice (use one dice for short pieces, or more to explore longer pieces)
• Enough tokens (coins, counters or small toys etc) for each player to cover all of the stars
• A printed game board

Rules of the game:

• Choose a piece of music which uses the range of notes you would like to use
• Players take turns to roll a dice . The number on the dice (or the sum of the numbers on the dice, if more than one is used) is the bar number for your turn. Identify the notes in that bar.
• A player may place a token on a star, if they can find that note in their chosen bar. If a player can find more than one star note in their bar they must choose just one star to cover with a token.
• A player cannot place a token on a star that already has a token
  When all stars are covered with a token, the player with the most tokens on stars is the winner

Play with a friend to see who can place the most tokens on the stars, or play against the dice - how many stars can you cover in ten rolls of the dice?