Dynamics Games

Chicken Scream is an app that helps students to play at varying dynamic levels on their instruments.

Hide the Object is a simple game where an object is hidden around the classroom by one student while the other student waits in the hallway outside the room. Once they return to the room, students play music (preferably something repetitious like the fist 5 notes of the scale). As the student walks closer to the object, the ensemble dynamics should get louder, then as they get farther away, the dynamics get softer.

Chicken Scream

Materials needed:

• Chicken Scream app.
• Smartphone or tablet with the ability to stream to the screen.

Goals:

• Students practice dynamics and timing.

Hide the Object

Materials needed:

• Object to hide

Goals:

• Ensemble group dynamic contrast practice