Take any piece, or scale, or section of music and play it with a “chaos agent” determined by one of our spinners. Spin again and play again with an all-new mayhem-maker. So what if this time every note is accented? You’re still practicing rhythm, intonation, dynamics, tempo, expression, etc. See the magic that happens when students are fully engaged in their music even when it sounds truly horrible!
Wheels of Music
Sometimes you can’t go around; you have to go through. Every piece has that one 8-12 bar section that you just have to run. There’s no substitute for repetition. But there is a way to make that repetition both productive and belly-laugh ridiculous!
Start Spinning!
The original. This spinner works for any kind of music ensemble and even private lessons. Spin the wheel to warm up your ensemble, grind a problem section, or just drive everyone crazy. It will take your warm-ups and scales to new heights!
Same song, different verse. The fun thing about sounding horrible while learning how to perform furioso or espressivo is that there’s no fear of sounding bad. We can learn a lot when we aren’t afraid of making a mistake. And when performing for real, everything you fearlessly learned about performing mysterioso can be applied beautifully.
Something for the littles. This spinner focuses on challenges that help musicians “put the music in their bodies.” Music is a whole-body experience, and this spinner reinforces that with suggestions to sing or play their music “Heavy Like Elephants” or “Floating Like Bubbles.”
Ringers beware. This one was cooked up especially for handbell musicians. Why? Shut up. They know.