Music Room Toolbox

Free music classroom games and tools for elementary teachers: rhythm and solfège games, choir warmups, a drum-groove metronome, 3D ukulele chords, and center timers.

Tools

• Sight Reading: Generate middle school sight-singing examples with simple part-writing rules. Choose unison, two parts, or SSA, show solfège, and practice with a count-in.
• Make This Pose: A movement game for the music room: stick people strike a pose and students copy it. Use it for brain breaks, freeze games, and getting the wiggles out.
• Warmup Studio: Guided choir warmups you can project: a flute demonstrates each pattern, students breathe, then sing it up or down by half steps. Routines for every grade.
• Four Corners: A rhythm listening game: four rhythms, one in each corner of the room. Students hear a rhythm and walk to its corner. Use pictures or notation.
• Poison Rhythm: The classic echo game for rhythm: students clap back every pattern except the poison rhythm. Choose the rhythms, tempo, and notation style.
• Poison Solfege: An echo-singing game for solfège: students sing back each melody except the poison one. Start with Sol–Mi–La and add pitches as they learn them.
• Four Corners Solfege: A pitch listening game: hear a mystery melody, then move to its corner or strike its pose. Build from Sol–Mi–La to the full scale.
• Rhythm Dictation: Free rhythm dictation practice: hear a short rhythm, then drag notes or pictures onto the beats and check the answer beat by beat.
• Solfège Dictation: Free melodic dictation practice: hear a short melody, then drag solfège syllables onto the beats to write it down and check it.
• Vocal Sirens: Vocal exploration for young singers: slide your voice up and down with a roller coaster, an elephant trunk, or an airplane while a guide tone follows.
• Ukulele Chords in 3D: See every ukulele chord on a 3D ukulele you can turn and zoom, hear it strummed, and practice chord changes with a count-in and steady beat.
• Bass Patterns in 3D: Bass guitar lines, arpeggios, and scales in all 12 keys on a 3D bass you can turn and zoom, with tab, note names, and a practice mode.
• Would You Rather: A rhythm game for the music room: students pick an answer to a would-you-rather question, then clap the rhythm under it. Use pictures or notation.
• Rhythm Randomizer: Generate random rhythm reading exercises from the rhythms your students know. Show Takadimi, counting, or pictures and play it with a backing beat.
• Note Counting: Introduce note values one at a time: see each note, hear how long it lasts, then count it aloud with 1 e + a while the beat plays.
• Metronome: A free online metronome with real drum sounds: a steady click or full grooves like rock, shuffle, bossa nova, and cumbia, with fills and tap tempo.
• Breathing Guide: A projected breathing break: follow a stick person as it breathes in and out at a pace you set. Good for singers and for calming a class.
• Rotation Timer: A timer for music centers: a big countdown, a drum signal to rotate, and a chart that shows every group where to go next.
• Solfège Hand Signs: See each Curwen solfège hand sign from Do to Ti on an animated hand, play the whole scale of signs, and save pictures for your slides.