hello it's Amanda and today I am
showing you how to play listening lemurs with this game you will get three
different sets of cards you'll get perfect minor and major this is an ear training game that
will help your students identify these different intervals what you get with this game is the game
board there are 21 of each major minor and perfect cards you also get full game instructions that you
can read I will also tell you how to play in this video If you're not much of a reader you al
so get
eight lemur game pieces that you can cut and when you cut them you can fold them and then they will
stand up on the game board like that also included in this are several teacher aids so first you
have the teacher guide these have different intervals that you can play there's perfect major
and then miners and some of these are inharmonic so if you don't like reading Sharps then you
can read the flats so if you ever see something that gives you an interval then it gives you the
inhar
monic these are the same pitches on the piano but you can choose which one you prefer to read
so this will give you plenty of options to use and what I would recommend you do as you use these
is play them in different octaves and you can also they're all written ascending but you can also
play them backwards descending also included are listening lemurs interval recognition
there are two pages of these so these are um they give you different Little Tunes so like
you understand as Jingle Bel
ls so you can get your students to think Jingle Bells and it's like
that's a Unison if they're thinking Joss names that's Jaws themes and then baby sharks there's
an ascending major second and they also have the descending notes that you can use as well so
there's plenty of options here to help your students identify which intervals are which when
your student has completed the game they can take a picture with the success poster that you can
post on your social media be sure to tag us at m
usic game club and we will be happy to celebrate
with you finally there are activity sheets that you can send home with your students now this is
all these are all the same there's just one of them but you can print out as many copies as you
need and um your students can color the Lemurs and then they can also write the intervals above
each note now you can change these instructions if you want to use this more than one week you can
you know change it and be like okay this week I want you t
o write the interval below or you can
do like I want you to write all minor intervals are all major and perfect intervals or whatever
so um there's several different ways you can use this if you want to be creative with it the
game cards so you have move forward one space which is let me grab a game piece and show you
so yeah if you had that one then if your student drew that they would just move forward one and
then if they have move forward two spaces they would move forward one two three
four three
spaces one two three move back one space bonus move forward four spaces there's very very
few of these two three four return to start yeah that's a really fun one there's only one of these
cards and so then they would return to start and eat do not move forward now if they're on the
starting position that just means they don't they don't move anywhere plot places with the player
to your right I believe there's right and left so if this person got it then these two people
with s
wap places which would be very beneficial for one and probably not very beneficial for the
other so um again there's not that many of those cards in there but those are some of the fun cards
that we have um so let's learn how to play it all you need to do to set up the board is just lay
it on the board you will want to shuffle all of the cards and then you can have your students
pick which lemur they want I'm going to play with two players you can play with up to six players
there's six dif
ferent places also included in the game download is a poster size of the game board
so if you need a little bit more space around your game board and want to put it on a table and have
your kids not quite so crowded together you can print a larger game board so I'm going to pick
this lemur and it doesn't really matter where you place them and then I'll pick the Slimmer so
I'm gonna just do one on each side of the game board okay so I will use the teacher guide that
I mentioned earlier and t
his one I'm just going to keep them in the same octave I do recommend you
doing them in different octaves but just so I'll show you how to play the game and also because I'm
using my iPad and it's hard to scroll on different octaves but if you're using a real piano it should
make it pretty easy what I do is I just will mix up if I'm doing major minor or perfect now a way
you can play this I'll just mention it quickly is if you're wanting to teach your students
here's what a major sounds lik
e here's what a minor sounds like here's what a perfect interval
sounds like then you can just do those cards but they would have to identify like oh that's a major
third that's a major six that's a major sevens or whatever so there is that alternative way to play
if you need to ease your way and and use this to teach your students what these intervals sound
like but let's pretend that they do know what Aldi's major minor and perfect intervals sound
like so I'm gonna mix up which intervals
I play and whether they're descending or ascending
choose an interval and you'd play it foreign [Music] you can decide if you want them to
identify the interval or not so they'll pick it so we're gonna go this guy's player one it's
a good news forward one and then player two draws stopped and eat does not move so with this if
you notice it does give it away if one student knows what it is so what you might want to do
is like count to five so they all have time to think about it and then the
y can say oh it's
major but what this does do is it does encourage the students to learn it still even if they're
learning it off of other players because they're still listening and hearing the pitches and
then they're identifying what it is or they're seeing it identified so I think it's a win-win
both ways let us do another interval [Music] all right that's a perfect fifth
so player one moves forward one player two stops the need I did not do
this on purpose all right another interval m
inor six player one moves forward
to player two moves forward one I'm gonna do a descending one [Music]
minor second player one stops the knee doesn't move forward player two gets
to move forward two spaces one [Music] major third player one moves back a space
player two moves forward three spaces foreign bonus moves forward four two moves back one and that of course is a perfect unison player one player two boom yeah they're not very many
move back two spaces but there are some minor third
player one one two and they've won
all right but if you wanted to keep going and do player two one two three and then you can
finish out the game if you wanted to you can decide penalties if they guess something wrong
then they can stay in the same spot and not move forward or they can move backward one that's
up to you it depends on how challenging you want it to be we were afraid that if you did do
like move back then it will give them too much of a disadvantage and be too discouraging
for the student but if you do want them to learn and to grow in their knowledge and
not just like say oh that's major oh that's minor and get it wrong just because they're
guessing then you can do hey if you guess it wrong you can't move forward so that could be
helpful if you have some students who aren't even really trying to learn it but this is
the gist of the game you know they they just listen they identify major minor perfect they
pick a card and move and there you go they're learnin
g their intervals and have a great time
while they're doing some ear training foreign [Music]
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