Free Basketball Music Flashcards

Basketball Music Flashcards

March Madness is right around the corner and your students who love basketball will love these basketball music flashcards! Use them to freshen up students’ note reading practice or play all kinds of music games with them. The sky’s the limit!

These are free for anyone who is a part of the ComposeCreate teaching community. All you have to do to be a part is to be a subscriber of the newsletter. So sign up for the Basketball Music Flashcards and you’ll be added as a subscriber plus get these flashcards in your email!

How can I use these Basketball Music Flashcards?

There are lots of ways. Here are just a few suggestions:

  • Free Basketball Music Flashcards! March Madness is right around the corner and your students who love basketball will love these basketball music flashcards! Use them to spice up students' note reading or play all kinds of music games with them. The sky's the limit! These are free for anyone who is a part of the ComposeCreate teaching community. All you have to do to be a part is to be a subscriber of the newsletter. So sign up for the Basketball Music Flashcards here and you'll be added a subscriber plus get these flashcards in your email! How can I use the Basketball Music Flashcards? There are lots of ways. Here are just a few suggestions: A fresh set of flashcards I know it seems like a little thing, but for those students you have in your studio that love sports, seeing flashcards with a basketball them will give them new energy for practicing their flashcards. Stand Up Flashcards We have designed these Basketball Music Flashcards in such a way that they can stand up in the piano keyboard, making it easier to ensure that students not only know the name of a note, but also its exact location on the keyboard. Challenge your studio! Set up a challenge in your studio with challenges at different levels. You might have 5 levels of challenge and each student would start at the beginning challenge. Then you can give them a small prize (like chocolate) when they complete a challenge. Some possible ways to do challenges are to challenge based on hand position (Level 1 would be middle C position notes, Level 2 might be All the notes between C and C, Level 3 might include the low G all the way up to the high G, Level 4 might start including low and high ledger line notes and level 5 might include all the cards including the ledger lines that are in the middle of the staff). Another way to organize this is to do what the Piano Safari creators did and use line and space notes, then adding ledger lines. However you divide the cards, I would suggest that you have the students name the notes as the first part of the challenge and then play the notes as the second part of the challenge. Do not underestimate this challenge activity! My own child learned all her note names and where they were long before she needed to know them in playing because her teacher did a challenge like this with her! Matching Game This set of Basketball Music Flashcards includes notes on the staff as well as letter names. So you can easily do a matching game and even have your student complete while they are waiting for their lesson. Fast Break You'll get more instructions on this in the file, but students can learn their white key note names by placing 2 erasers at the top or bottom of the piano. Then the players take turns drawing letter names and they move their eraser to the next closest corresponding note. The player to the opposite side of the piano first wins! Challenge This is always an exciting activity in group lessons. Divide students into two teams and have them line up behind a table. Place a call bell between them and have two students face you with their hands behind their backs. Show them a Basketball Music Flashcard and the first student that rings the bell and answers correctly gets to keep the card. Alternatively, you can have them race to the piano to play the correct note which makes it even more of a physically exciting game! You can also adapt what Julie Duda did with the Football Music Flashcards here. Want more basketball themed teaching tools? We have a fun, inexpensive game that you can use to help teach and drill intervals with a basketball theme. Check out Interval Sketch-a-play!A fresh set of flashcards
    I know it seems like a little thing, but for those students you have in your studio that love sports, seeing flashcards with a basketball them will give them new energy for practicing their flashcards.
    I know this because I have a son who lights up seeing anything sports related!
  • Stand Up Flashcards
    We have designed these Basketball Music Flashcards in such a way that they can stand up in the piano keyboard, making it easier to ensure that students not only know the name of a note, but also its exact location on the keyboard.
  • Studio Challenge!
    Set up a challenge in your studio with challenges at different levels. You might have 5 levels of challenge and each student would start at the beginning challenge. Then you can give them a small prize (like chocolate) when they complete a challenge. Some possible ways to do challenges are to challenge based on hand position (Level 1 would be middle C position notes, Level 2 might be All the notes between C and C, Level 3 might include the low G all the way up to the high G, Level 4 might start including low and high ledger line notes and level 5 might include all the cards including the ledger lines that are in the middle of the staff). Another way to organize this is to do what the Piano Safari creators did and use line and space notes, then adding ledger lines.
    However you divide the cards, I would suggest that you have the students name the notes as the first part of the challenge and then play the notes as the second part of the challenge.
    Do not underestimate this challenge activity! My own child learned all her note names and where they were long before she needed to know them in playing because her teacher did a challenge like this with her!
  • Free Basketball Music Flashcards! March Madness is right around the corner and your students who love basketball will love these basketball music flashcards! Use them to spice up students' note reading or play all kinds of music games with them. The sky's the limit! These are free for anyone who is a part of the ComposeCreate teaching community. All you have to do to be a part is to be a subscriber of the newsletter. So sign up for the Basketball Music Flashcards here and you'll be added a subscriber plus get these flashcards in your email! How can I use the Basketball Music Flashcards? There are lots of ways. Here are just a few suggestions: A fresh set of flashcards I know it seems like a little thing, but for those students you have in your studio that love sports, seeing flashcards with a basketball them will give them new energy for practicing their flashcards. Stand Up Flashcards We have designed these Basketball Music Flashcards in such a way that they can stand up in the piano keyboard, making it easier to ensure that students not only know the name of a note, but also its exact location on the keyboard. Challenge your studio! Set up a challenge in your studio with challenges at different levels. You might have 5 levels of challenge and each student would start at the beginning challenge. Then you can give them a small prize (like chocolate) when they complete a challenge. Some possible ways to do challenges are to challenge based on hand position (Level 1 would be middle C position notes, Level 2 might be All the notes between C and C, Level 3 might include the low G all the way up to the high G, Level 4 might start including low and high ledger line notes and level 5 might include all the cards including the ledger lines that are in the middle of the staff). Another way to organize this is to do what the Piano Safari creators did and use line and space notes, then adding ledger lines. However you divide the cards, I would suggest that you have the students name the notes as the first part of the challenge and then play the notes as the second part of the challenge. Do not underestimate this challenge activity! My own child learned all her note names and where they were long before she needed to know them in playing because her teacher did a challenge like this with her! Matching Game This set of Basketball Music Flashcards includes notes on the staff as well as letter names. So you can easily do a matching game and even have your student complete while they are waiting for their lesson. Fast Break You'll get more instructions on this in the file, but students can learn their white key note names by placing 2 erasers at the top or bottom of the piano. Then the players take turns drawing letter names and they move their eraser to the next closest corresponding note. The player to the opposite side of the piano first wins! Challenge This is always an exciting activity in group lessons. Divide students into two teams and have them line up behind a table. Place a call bell between them and have two students face you with their hands behind their backs. Show them a Basketball Music Flashcard and the first student that rings the bell and answers correctly gets to keep the card. Alternatively, you can have them race to the piano to play the correct note which makes it even more of a physically exciting game! You can also adapt what Julie Duda did with the Football Music Flashcards here. Want more basketball themed teaching tools? We have a fun, inexpensive game that you can use to help teach and drill intervals with a basketball theme. Check out Interval Sketch-a-play!Matching Game
    This set of Basketball Music Flashcards includes notes on the staff as well as letter names. So you can easily do a matching game and even have your student complete while they are waiting for their lesson.
  • Fast Break
    You’ll get more instructions on this in the file, but students can learn their white key note names by placing 2 erasers at the top or bottom of the piano. Then the players take turns drawing letter names and they move their eraser to the next closest corresponding note. The player to the opposite side of the piano first wins!
  • Challenge Game
    This is always an exciting activity in group lessons. Divide students into two teams and have them line up behind a table. Place a call bell between them and have two students face you with their hands behind their backs. Show them a Basketball Music Flashcard and the first student that rings the bell and answers correctly gets to keep the card. Alternatively, you can have them race to the piano to play the correct note which makes it even more of a physically exciting game!

You can also adapt what Julie Duda did with the Football Music Flashcards here.

Basketball Sketch-a-Play Intervals - PDFWant more basketball themed teaching tools?

We have a fun, inexpensive game that you can use to help teach and drill intervals with a basketball theme. Check out Interval Sketch-a-play!

11 thoughts on “Free Basketball Music Flashcards”

  1. My computer is refusing to download the cards. It looks like Jennette Sockwell had the same diffficulty.
    Hmm.
    Cynthia Whalen

  2. Hi Cynthia!

    I’m sorry your computer is having trouble, but I’m always happy to help. You’ll need to click on the button and fill in your first name and email and then submit that. You’ll get to a thank you page. Then, just check your email in a few minutes and you’ll have the cards.

    If you don’t see a pop up after you click the button, then you probably need to tell your browser to allow pop ups from my site.

    I hope that helps! Email me at support@composecreate.com if you still can’t get them. I’m always happy to help!

  3. Hi Carol,

    I’d be happy to help you with this, but I just need to know more information. If you could email me at support@composecreate.com and let me know what you’ve done and what’s happened or not happened, I can help you further! I’ll watch for your email!

    ~ Wendy

  4. Hi Susann,

    I’ll bet it’s a pop-up blocker in your browser! When you click on the button, you should see a pop up that has a place for you to enter your name and email. If you don’t see it, make sure your browser isn’t blocking pop-ups! You should be able to see that around the place where the URL is. See if unblocking pop-ups will help it show!

  5. I am unable to open the basketball flashcards. Popups are disabled. Still can’t open it. Can you help, please?
    Thank you!

  6. Sure Joyce, you can contact Amanda at our Contact and she can help you with that via email. It’s much easier to do it via email so we can get you specific help!

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