Colorful Intervals

This week I played a game to practice the concept of intervals:

What you need:

• A set of cards with intervals
• Two keyboard sheets* printed out and laminated or put in a sheet protector
• Whiteboard markers, preferably in a variety of colors

Setup:

• Shuffle the cards.
• Each player should label Middle C with a whiteboard marker.

How to Play:

• The first player draws a card and names the interval. Once you have named it, color in the entire interval (meaning the top note, the bottom note, and all notes in between) on your keyboard. This ends the turn.
• The second player follows the same process.
• If you have already colored in some or all of the notes contained in the interval on the card, you can color in an equivalent interval anywhere else on the keyboard. For example, if you draw a fourth from middle C to F, but you’ve already colored those notes, you can draw a fourth from G to B above it.
• If your keyboard is so full you cannot find an equivalent interval, color in the largest interval you can find and name it.
• The first person to completely fill their keyboard wins.

*My keyboard sheets are from Kristin’s site at http://www.myfunpianostudio.com/. I highly recommend her Piano Magic improv course.