When your primer piano students play in 3/4 time does it sound an awful lot like 4/4 time?
Do they hold the final note in every measure for one beat longer than necessary?
I don’t blame them!
Most music, games, and activities for primer piano students are created in 4/4 time. So, fixing rhythm problems is as simple as giving your kids opportunities to have fun in 3/4 time.
In today’s post, we’re sharing Rhythm and Rubies: a board game that explores 3/4 time.
Before You Download Today’s Game
While today’s board game works well as a standalone activity, it works wonders when paired with our newest primer book, The Cat, the Mermaid, and the Soaking Wet Songbook.
Released on Tuesday, this book helps primer students gain confidence playing in middle C position and 3/4 time.
Like all of the resources in the Very Useful Piano Library, The Cat, the Mermaid, and the Soaking Wet Songbook contains music and so much more!
Inside you will discover cute songs with wonderful lyrics, note reading, sight reading, and rhythm games, a practice tracker, and a certificate of achievement.
You can get this book today on Amazon or you can learn more and look inside here.
Reinforce 3/4 Time With Rubies And Rhythm
Click on the image below to download Rhythm And Rubies. To play the game your students will need to gather four dice and then follow along with the included instructions.
Oh my gosh! Have you been secretly watching my students’ lessons? Every week!! And we are preparing for NFMC Festival. My student would get off in her lesson, but by the next week had forgotten it! I will definitely use this!
LOL I’m so glad! 3/4 time is a very common struggle – we hope that with resources like this (and books like the one this printable coordinates with) you’ll all have students who don’t blink an eye when the time signature changes from 4/4 🙂
This is just what I was working with my students!! Perfect timming!! Awesome!! Thank you so much Andrea for making us, the teachers look like music superheroes!!
Perfect! Love it when the timing is right like that 🙂 Enjoy!