Piano Roll Bingo Cards With Audio

These are piano roll bingo cards complete with audio recordings (MP3s). There are 16 unique bingo cards (1 per page in a PDF document). Each bingo card has 16 small piano roll notations on it and the pack comes with 16 audio recordings of the music featured on the cards.

This is a great activity for KS3 and KS4 classes and work particularity well when teaching students about piano rolls, notation or the musical elements. This is also a useful activity for introducing students to notation used on software packages such as Garageband, Logic or Cubase. Useful as as a starter or plenary activity or even as a starting point for a whole lesson.

Simply print off the bingo cards, hand out to students (I get students to work in pairs), select the audio files at random and let the students work out which piano roll best fits what they are hearing. Each audio file has a four click intro and then the two bar piano part. Make your own rules for bingo or have students come up with their own. Simply laminate them to use them time and time again.

You can also use the cards as a performing activity before hearing the audio files. Ask students to try and work out what the piano rolls will sound like using their voice or an instrument.

As a composing activity, there is a blank card that you can get students to compose their own ideas and create their own piano roll.

Any feedback would be greatly received. Let me know how you got on with it and I welcome any suggestions for improvements.