{"id":358,"date":"2010-08-16T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=358"},"modified":"2010-08-16T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:04:48","slug":"music-rhythm-game-dont-clap-this-one-back-with-rhythm-flash-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/music-rhythm-game-dont-clap-this-one-back-with-rhythm-flash-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Music rhythm game &#8216;Don&#8217;t clap this one back&#8217; with rhythm flash cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard of this game through Samantha Coates at the Winter Piano Teacher&#8217;s Seminar and I loved the idea. \u00a0I have tweaked it a little though.<\/p>\n<p>How to play:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clap a rhythm to your students\/class. \u00a0They have to clap it back to you.<\/li>\n<li>The only rhythm they can&#8217;t clap back is &#8220;Don&#8217;t clap this one back&#8221; (aka crotchet, crotchet, quaver, quaver, crotchet &#8211; the one school teachers tend to favour).<\/li>\n<li>Clap whatever rhythms you like, and throw in the &#8220;Don&#8217;t clap this one back&#8221; rhythm to trick them.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t eliminate students in this game, as the ones who tend to get out first are generally the ones who need the most practise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To print out the guide sheet with basic 4\/4 rhythms on it (semibreves, minims, crotchets and quavers, no dotted notes), click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Don-t-Clap-This-One-Back.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Don-t-Clap-This-One-Back1.pdf\">&#8216;Don&#8217;t Clap This One Back&#8217; guide sheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like flash cards of all the rhythms used on the guide sheet, click here:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Dont-Clap-This-One-Back-rhythm-cards1.pdf\">Don&#8217;t Clap This One Back rhythm cards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Variations on the game:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Student chooses the rhythms to clap and the teacher\/other students have to clap (or not) the rhythm.<\/li>\n<li>Print out a few copies of the rhythm cards and play memory or concentration, clapping the rhythms each time a card is turned over.<\/li>\n<li>Students can choose a few rhythm cards, line them up on the piano\/music stand for violin and compose a melody using 4 or 5 notes.<\/li>\n<li>Blu-tac the cards to a wall. \u00a0Teacher claps a rhythm and the student needs to identify the rhythm card that was clapped.<\/li>\n<li>Use percussion instruments, one note on the piano\/violin, body percussion to tap\/clap the cards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a fantastic game to develop those aural skills particularly needed for the &#8216;clap the melody back&#8217; section in Aural Tests for examinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard of this game through Samantha Coates at the Winter Piano Teacher&#8217;s Seminar and I loved the idea. \u00a0I have tweaked it a little though. How to play:- Clap a rhythm to your students\/class. \u00a0They have to clap it back to you. The only rhythm they can&#8217;t clap back is &#8220;Don&#8217;t clap this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,26,29],"tags":[126,142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}