ST. MICHAEL'S SKILLS for CHORISTERS
REQUIREMENTS, TASKS, AND ACTIVITIES
SKILLS for CHORISTERS
Below are listed the Music Learning Community website Music Theory games that need to be completed to pass a particular skill requirement.
If you have spent time at home, at St. Michael's, or other location working on a game or three, and you either complete with the suggested passing mark, above that mark, or slightly below, before leaving your computer/laptop/tablet, please send an email to andrew@stmichaelschurch.com to advise you spent some time working on some of the games.
LEVEL 1
White Ribbon & Bronze Medal
MUSICAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
➣ Identify: higher vs. lower
Music Learning Games
P-1A Keyboard Elements
> Low Middle High
P-1A Pitch & Melody - Aural
> High & Low
➣ Identify: up / down / same
Music Learning Games
P-1A Pitch & Melody - Aural
> Storm Chasers 2
➣ Speed in music: fast / slow?
Music Learning Games
P-1A Rhythm - Aural
> Faster, Slower, Same
➣ Identify: long & short notes
Music Learning Games
P-1A Rhythm - Aural
> Manny’s Short & Long 2
LEVEL 2
Light Blue Ribbon & Pewter Medal
MUSICAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
➣ Note names of the G & F clef staffs; ledger lines
Music Learning Games
Keyboard Elements
> Level P-1A: LetterFly 1 / 2 / 3
Music Terms & Symbols
> Level P-1A: Alpha Order Up / Alpha Order Down
Pitch & Melody - Visual
> Level P-1A / 1: Page Turner Letters 1 thru 6
> Level P-1A / 1 / 2: Jingle Notes 1 / 2
> Level 3 / 4: Underwater Clef Hanger 1
➣ Basic note values and equivalent rests
Music Learning Games
Rhythm - Aural
> Level P-1A / 1: Rhythm Rally 1 / 1A / 2
> Level 1 / 2: Rhythm Regatta 1 / 2 / 3
Rhythm - Visual
> Level 2: Music Darts - Rhythm 4
> Level 2: Rhythm Math 1
> Level P-1A / 1 / 2: Rhythm Pop 1 / 1A / 2 / 3 / 4
➣ Scales / pattern of the major scale
Music Learning Games
Scales & Key Signatures
> Level 1 / 2: Songbirds Major & Minor
Intervals - Aural
> Level 1 / 2: Catch the Coconut 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
> Level 2 / 3: Interval Aces 1
Intervals - Visual
> Level P-1A: Alpha Steps & Skips 1 / 2 / 3
> Level 2 / 3: Cannon Intervals 1
> Level P-1A / 1: Interval Surprise 1 / 2
➣ Key signatures of C, F and G major
Music Learning Games
Scales & Key Signatures
> Level 1 / 2: Cosmic Key Sigs 1
➣ Accidentals
Music Learning Games
Keyboard Elements
> P-1A: LetterFly 4 / 5 / 6
➣ Measures and time signatures
Music Learning Games
Rhythm - Visual
> Level P-1A / 1: Rhythm Writer 1 / 2 / 3
> Level P-1A / 1: Time Sig Blimp 1 / 2
➣ Basic dynamic markings & other symbols
Music Learning Games
Pitch & Melody - Aural
> Level P-1A / 1: Pick the Pattern Loud & Soft 2
Music Terms & Symbols
> Level P-1A / 1 / 2: Falling Symbols 1 / 2 / 3
> Level P-1A / 1: Music Darts 1 / 2 / 3
➣ Singing back a simple melody - tonal memory
Music Learning Games
Pitch & Melody - Aural
> Level P-1A / 1 / 2: Melody Match 1 / 2
Tonal Memory & Playback
> Level 1: Musical Memory 1 (all) / 2
➣ Clap a simple rhythm - rhythm memory
Music Learning Games
Rhythm - Aural
> Level P-1A / 1 / 2: Rhythm Pix 1 / 2
> Level 2: Rhythm Factory 1 / 2 / 3
➣ Tap/clap the beat of a passage of music with 2 or 3 beats per measure
Music Learning Games
Rhythm - Aural
> Level 2 / 3: Meter Match
➣ Sight-singing - tonal memory 2
Music Learning Games
Pitch & Melody - Aural
> Level P-1A / 1: Melody Pix 3
> Level 2/3/4: Melody Mayhem 1 / 2 / 3
> Level 1: Melody Puzzles 1
LEVEL 3VEL 3
Dark Blue Ribbon & Pewter Medal
MUSICAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
➣ Note values, equivalent rests, including sixteenth notes and dotted notes.
Music Learning Games
Rhythm - Aural
> Level 3 / 4: Downhill Rhythms 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
> Level 5: Random Rhythms 1
> Level 2 / 3: Rhythm Pix 3 / 4
Rhythm - Visual
> Level P-1A / 1: Rhythm Writer 4 / 5 / 6
➣ Scales: harmonic minor scale / relative minor
Music Learning Games
Scales & Key Signatures
> Level 3 / 4: Evergreen Scales 3
> Level 1 / 2: Songbirds Major & Minor 1 / 2
> Level 5: Surfin ’Scales 1
➣ ALL key signatures thru 7 sharps and flats (both major and minor)
Music Learning Games
Scales & Key Signatures
> Level 2: Cosmic Key Sigs 2
> Level 3 / 4: Key Sig Warehouse 1 / 2 / 3
> Level 3 / 4 / 5: Key Sig Canoes 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
> Level 5: Circle of Fifths 1 / 2
➣ Intervals (unison, octave, major/minor second, major/minor third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, major/minor sixth, major seventh)
Music Learning Games
Intervals - Aural
> Level 1 / 2: Catch the Coconut 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
> Level 2 / 3 / 4: Interval Aces 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
> Level 2 / 3/ 4: interval Arcade 1 / 2
> Level 3 / 4: Interval Aliens 1 / 2 / 3
Pitch & Melody - Aural
> Level 3 / 4: Pitch Detective 1 / 2
Intervals - Visual
> Level P-1A: Alpha Steps & Skips 1 / 2 / 3
> Level P-1A / 1: Step Right Up 1 / 2 / 3
> Level 2 / 3: Interval Rockets 1
> Level P-1A / 1 / 2 / 3: Interval Surprise 1 / 2
> Level 2 / 3 / 4 / 5: Note Flakes Diat. Int. 1 / 2
➣ Chords: construction / major / minor
Music Learning Games
Chords/Harmony - Visual
> Level 2 / 3 / 4: Floating Triads 1 / 2
> Level 2 / 3: Triad Launch 1 / 2
Chords/Harmony - Aural
> Level 2 / 3: Hearing Triads 1
> Level 3 / 4: Tropical Triads 1
➣ Common performance directions
Music Learning Games
Music Terms & Symbols
> Level 2 / 3 / 4: Falling Symbols 4 / 5
➣ Singing back a simple melody - tonal memory
Music Learning Games
Tonal Memory & Playback
> Level 2: Mystery Note 2
> Level 1 / 2 / 3: Musical Memory 3 - CDEFG
➣ Clap a simple rhythm - rhythm memory
Music Learning Games
Rhythm - Aural
> Level P-1A: Steady as She Goes
> Level 2 / 3: Meter Match 1
LEVEL 4
LEVEL 4
Red Ribbon & Pewter Medal
MUSICAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
➣ Notes & rests - including tied
Music Learning Games
Rhythm - Visual
> Level 1 / 2: Rhythm Pop 3 / 4 / 5
➣ ID all major, minor, and perfect intervals up to an octave
Music Learning Games
Intervals - Aural
> Level 4 / 5: Interval Aliens 3 / 4