When a preschool or primer piano student is getting bored on your bench you have so many tools at your disposal to light up your lesson. Your youngest students can be rescued with games, stories, and stuffed animals to enhance the learning experience.
When a teen student gets bored, most piano teachers just power through.
Sometimes this strategy works and your teen perks up. Most times it fails miserably. But one thing is certain: when you power through a piano piece or a theory lesson you will have a disengaged student, and disengaged students are learning next to nothing.
In today’s post, we are sharing a piano game that you can pull out when you’re getting the impression that piano theory is punishing your teen students.
Engage Your Teen Piano Students With Game-Based Learning
Teens can be tough to teach because they hold their emotional cards close. During a lesson, it can be a real challenge to interpret their engagement. Teens can look engaged while having had mentally checked out a long time ago.
The most effective way to ensure mental engagement, therefore, is to play a piano game. Game-based learning by its very nature requires teen students to be mentally involved. If they are not, you will know!
Today’s chord inversion game (found at the bottom of the post) can be used as a standalone activity or in coordination with our books, WunderKeys Intermediate Pop Studies For Piano Series.
Download Today’s Game
To access today’s printable click here or on the image below. This race-to-the-finish game will be a hit with your completely-engaged teen piano students.
I can’t see the game board in the download? nor the number that relates to the chord inversion?
Hi Katherine – the gameboard is the cover page (page 1) of the file. You don’t need a number on the game board. Were you able to open the file to get the instructions?
My computer said it could not open the file because it was empty.
Hi Carol – just try again after refreshing your browser. The link is definitely working 🙂
Where is the game board?
Hi Anita – the game board is the cover page (page 1) of the file 🙂
I don’t understand the different between steps 3 and 4. So the first round the player who wins can perform the moves in rule 3? The second round it changes to the moves in rule 4? Very confusing. I want to play this game as I have already made everything and cut it out, but it has already taken me a lot of time understanding these rule. Please help. Thank you.
Players roll, the winner (the one who rolls the corresponding number) can complete any of the listed “moves”. This continues until one player lands on the white star. As the winner gets two “moves” he or she can do a combination of moving, blocking or removing blocks. Does that help? It’s really simple to play 🙂