Here are several websites I've found with cool music games and tools. They can be a fun way to test your knowledge, keep it fresh, or exercise skills in a new way.
Guinea Pig Theater - You get five guinea pigs of different sizes and colors. When you roll your cursor over them, you'll discover they each sing a different pitch, in their funny, blubbery, guinea pig voices. Together they make the first five notes of a major scale. Mix them up and have them sing a tune!
Speed Note Reading - See if you can make it through all 10 levels!
Theta Music Trainer - Several excellent games to train your ear in melody, harmony, and rhythm. You can keep track of your progress. A free subscription gives you access to the entire site.
Morton Subotnick's Creating Music - I recommend the Creating Your Own Music link from the main page. It's so cool! You draw music on a blank score with piano, clarinet, trumpet, and/or drums. You can make the sounds go up and down, you can stack many sounds on top of each other, you can make the instruments play the whole time or put space in between. For playback there is turtle speed, baby bunny speed, or grown rabbit speed.
Music Tech Teacher Quizzes, Games and Music Help - So many varied and awesome games on this site as you'll see. I've used some of these in piano lessons before.
Jam Studio - Just click on chord names in the box on the right to fill in measures on the left. Then select your instrument on the bottom and you've got yourself a song. Or at least a chord progression which you can then write a melody to. It's also great for making a custom accompaniment track for a song you want to sing, or play, provided it is in 4/4 time.
Enjoy the links! Feel free to share any good ones you know.
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