Rhythm Race Music Game for Intermediate and Elementary Levels
Rhythm Race is a quick game for 2 or more players. I made the game for students who are learning to count rhythms including dotted eighth notes and triplets. After my intermediate students played Rhythm Race, I noticed they improved in their ability to count difficult rhythms.
There are also easy cards to count with whole, half, and rests and cards for students who are just learning eighth notes.
Use card stock and cut them out. I found a good deal on photo paper at a discount store, so I laminated that for the game board, and it really pops out the colors.
Print only the the rhythm cards for the level you need. If you want to use the backs I made – the cards with checkered flags – then reinsert the rhythm cards and print the back design. I find it necessary to have the backs of each level a different color so I can quickly get the correct cards ready for a student. There are also sentence cards with directions that make the game more fun.
This game can be played with student and teacher or in groups. If you are playing with different ages in a group lesson, students can draw from their theory level and still play together.
Objective
- To review rhythms, including dotted eighth notes and sixteenths notes
 Ages
- Grades 1-7, using the appropriate level cards
 Number of Players
- Two or more players. The teacher can play with a student, or students can play in a group lesson
Materials
- Game board and rhythm card printables
- A Â small token for each player
What a creative lady you are! Thank you for sharing your many talents.
This is wonderful, my students will love this game! What a fun way to test their rhythm-reading skills! Thank you so much for sharing!
Susan. I just love you! Thank you for your selfless service to piano teacher EVERYWHERE! This is an awesome game and I cannot wait to try it at my next group class.
I have two intermediate students coming this afternoon. Can’t wait to play this with them! Thank you so much, Susan. Your games are terrific!
Thank you for another great rhythm game, Susan. I tried the Reindeer Tracks game with all levels using your rhythm cards at Christmas and my students just loved it. I couldn’t believe how much better they got at tapping rhythms in just 5 minutes at the end of their lesson. It was great to get a chuckle out of some of my shy students when “the teacher” got stuck going back 2 spaces. 🙂 I was hoping you would come up with another one, so thank you again for another winning resource. Your games not only make it fun to learn but also even more fun to teach.
Susan, Thank you so much for a rhythm game for students past the beginning stages. Students do move on toward intermediate level and I am always looking for level appropriate games for them. This is fabulous as I have more boys than girls in my early intermediate levels.
I know this would be a huge hit with a couple of my homeschooled students. They’re nuts about race cars! This will make a perfect “between lessons” games – and a perfect excuse to overlap their lessons by 10 minutes this week. Thanks for sharing!
Susan I love all of your materials and how you so graciously share! In this game I am wondering what the “sentence cards” are? Also are there supposed to be “penalty” cards included? I did not see either of these with your downloads listed above. Thank you so much!
Dianne
Oops, I left them off! What was I thinking! I’ll add them right now!