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Sight reading game
Thursday, November 22, 2007
User Sarabande posted the following idea on the Piano World Piano Teacher's Forum:
[S]ometimes at lesson or piano group get-togethers, we play a game involving sight-reading.

I get out a bunch of easy beginner books usually 5-finger, or a little harder for more advanced students. We take turns rolling a dice (I use a cloth dice I found at the dollar store). Everyone is assigned "even" or "odd" for numbers.

If it lands on your own number if you are "even", for example, you get to pick any song and assign it to the next person. If it lands on an "odd" you have to pick a song and play it yourself.
The Piano World Piano Teacher's Forum is very active--well worth checking out.

Comments:
Sounds like a fun way to get the students more involved. Thanks for posting!

Mike
 
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