Just like the real game, only using musical dice. You will need to buy 5 small wooden cubes from a craft store. Using a Sharpie marker, draw an eighth, quarter, dotted quarter, half, dotted half, and whole note – one note per side on each of the 5 dice. Play just like regular Yahtzee, only using note values instead of numbers.
For younger students, I often just use the top portion of the game.
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Hi D’Net,
Love your website and have used many of your ideas. Bi thanks.. The musical Yahtzee game…..how do you add the notes? just using the number 1 for each note,(eighth-whole, each one gets a point) or do you add fractions,(1/8, etc) or do you accumulate into quarter notes? Thanks!
~C
Played this with students at a group lesson tonight. It was a BIG HIT! Thank you!
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These games are AMAZING! Can’t wait to try them in group piano as well as classroom music. How old do you find students need to be to manage the math for music Yahtzee?
With the younger students, I just play the top half. After they are good at that, I will introduce the bottom half a couple at a time. Usually the 5th on up can do it all to begin.
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