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# Games for Song

Improv Music Games For Bands and A Capella

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- [Tee Tee Notes](https://www.gamesforsong.com/tee-tee-notes/) - This game is about learning to psychically know the musical souls of your friends so well, that you can feel what note they are going to sing even before they sing it, and choose a note to harmonize with them at the same instant that they begin to sing their next note. It is a
- [Welcome](https://www.gamesforsong.com/welcome/) - Have you ever had a truly transporting musical experience? Have you ever had deep feelings from music, perhaps a memory from childhood? Have you ever been freed by music to dance or flow? Have you seen others doing this, and wondered about it? Have you had such experiences while playing music yourself? How about while
- [Sing Sa](https://www.gamesforsong.com/sing-sa/) - This game is for learning to be "in tune". It is not about having perfect pitch, but about being at peace with your voice, and knowing that you can settle safely into a tone and maintain it. Like Over and Over, this game allows you to learn how to be settled and at peace with
- [Make It / Let It](https://www.gamesforsong.com/make-it-let-it/) - Make It/Let It is one of my all time favorite Games for Song. It is about finding the flow state; the perfect balance. This game utilizes the skill of being able to Sing / Touch, so try that first. If no one else is around to play this game with you, then you can always
- [Over and Over](https://www.gamesforsong.com/over-and-over/) - This game is about learning how to meditate and how to live with your own body and your own soul without fighting yourself. The game is so incredibly simple in concept, and so easy to play for the first five minutes. But oh boy, just wait until you have played for thirty minutes! That can
- [Tee Tee Note Thieves](https://www.gamesforsong.com/tee-tee-note-thieves/) - First play Tee-Tee Notes. This game extends Tee-Tee Notes, making the songs that result much more exciting. It does this by allowing the players to vary the durations of their notes. At any given moment, one player is the "whole note" person while another player is the "quarter note person", and so forth. The trick
- [Sing / Touch](https://www.gamesforsong.com/sing-a-silent-song/) - This game is the most important single thing that you can do to learn to play a musical instrument. It teaches you communicate your voice through the instrument, and to be able to "hear" sounds in your mind/body/soul and to have those sounds come out of the instrument. It is a wonderful feeling to be
- [Sing / Touch](https://www.gamesforsong.com/sing-touch/) - This game is the most important single thing that you can do to learn to play a musical instrument. It teaches you communicate your voice through the instrument, and to be able to "hear" sounds in your mind/body/soul and to have those sounds come out of the instrument. It is a wonderful feeling to be
- [Radio / Radio](https://www.gamesforsong.com/radio-radio/) - This is another foray towards the possibility of games for symphony. Half of the players, play Hey. Once this music is established, this first group stops playing but remembers where they left off. You can jot some notes or keep playing very quietly if your memory needs help. Now the second group of the players
- [Raja Naja Jaja](https://www.gamesforsong.com/raja-naja-jaja/) - This game is for clearing our minds at the beginning of the games, or to shout and celebrate at the end of the night. It is catharsis. It is wonderment. Bring it! Stand in a circle and stretch your arms up toward the sky. Then fall over at the waist, dangling your arms and head.
- [Belly Laughs](https://www.gamesforsong.com/laugh-trombone/) - It's good to laugh. For sure it is music. And it's also therapy. So good for you! Lie on the floor in a circle so that each person's head is on the next person's belly. One person says, "ha". The next person says, "ha ha". The third person, "ha ha ha". Try not to actually
- [Falling](https://www.gamesforsong.com/falling/) - The idea of this game is safety and support, and was inspired by trust falls where people fall backwards into each other's arms in order to learn to trust one another. The idea is to know that your people fully have you, and will support you no matter what happens. This game is also like
- [Sonata Thieves](https://www.gamesforsong.com/sonata-thieves/) - In the game Duets, we talked about how it seems like there could be a new kind of musical vocabulary - a kind of symphony where the musicians are invited to share more of themselves and more with each other. This game is a stab in that direction. Player one begins playing discrete disconnected events,
- [Something / Other](https://www.gamesforsong.com/intent-random/) - In Make It / Let It, we found the center, a place of balance. The balance between pushing forward and laying back. There are many different flavors of balance perhaps, and here are a few more. The ensemble plays Hey or any other ensemble game. The soloist plays a collection of random notes. You just
- [Duets](https://www.gamesforsong.com/duets/) - This game is really cool. It starts to hint at the possibility of musical games that could be almost like symphonies, but improvised. What if we mixed up the numbers, duets sometimes, trios others. What if we provided some guidance for what musics to play in each section. It seems like there could be a
- [Listen / Play](https://www.gamesforsong.com/friends-meeting/) - Listen / Play is about magically knowing when to take your turn. It is about listening, always, and only playing when truly moved to do so. It is about speaking the absolute truth from the deepest part of your heart. It is about respect for each other and for the universe. This game was inspired
- [Wormholes](https://www.gamesforsong.com/wormholes/) - Wormholes is a game to allow drastic change by group consensus. Revolution instead of evolution. Sometimes we just need to get away. Establish a jam, perhaps by playing “Hey.” When cued by someone’s secret language or just by one player encountering a wormhole, enter the wormhole. There are many different kinds of wormholes one can
- [Silent Bow](https://www.gamesforsong.com/silent-bow/) - This game comes from the illustrious bass player the Victor Wooten, in his book The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music. It is a wonderful reminder and a reward for leaving space to breathe. And Victor also says it always results in the crowd cheering wildly for his solos! Just before you
- [Roots](https://www.gamesforsong.com/roots/) - The core of jazz is to navigate changing tonality, and jazz musicians make this seem so easy. Maybe it is easy? Let's find out! Stand or sit in a circle. One player, the Root, sings or plays a note. Continue to play this Root note until it becomes a “drone.” While the Root keeps
- [Play Fast](https://www.gamesforsong.com/play-fast/) - This is how you learn to express music on your instrument impressively fast. Choose a passage or phrase that is representative of the kind of thing that you want to be able to play fast. Set your metronome to a speed where it is easy to play. Play the phrase 10 times. Breath deeply and
- [Swing](https://www.gamesforsong.com/swing/) - This is a way to learn to play with a jazz feel. Play eighth note runs/phrases. Always start on a downbeat. Always stop on a downbeat as well. Once that is comfortable, try playing eighth note runs/phrases starting with an off-beat and “swing hard.” Then try it playing the same runs, both starting and stopping
- [Metronome Ping-Pong](https://www.gamesforsong.com/metronome-ping-pong/) - This game is to finding time as Sing Sa is to finding pitch. In Sing Sa we explored around a drone note, above and below it. We gently changed the frequency of of our note to explore how it related to the center. In this game we explore around a repeating simple beat, we change
- [Moment](https://www.gamesforsong.com/moment/) - Moment is the game Hey with faster, more momentary, Rochambeau/Thieving interactions. It is thrilling and beautiful, and you will start to realize how much freedom lives between the spaces and silences in music. One or more player establishes a cyclic sound pattern, a rhythm, perhaps by playing Hey. A new player then joins by carefully
- [Hey](https://www.gamesforsong.com/hey/) - Hey is about improvising together. In Over and Over we learned to be at peace with ourselves, so that we can provide joyful, unresisting supportive sound for others. In Tee-Tee Note Thieves we learned to listen to others enough to notice when they are stealing from us, how to give over willingly to them, and
- [Run, Jump, Hit-the-Wall](https://www.gamesforsong.com/run-jump-hit-the-wall/) - Like Count Circle, this is a way to come up with new musical phrases, motifs, or patterns. This game is rhythmic creativity in a bottle. Form a circle and choose one person to begin. The beginner invents a short rhythmic pattern with their noise maker or instrument. This sound pattern is called "Hit-the-Wall". It will
- [Slide Away / Slide Home](https://www.gamesforsong.com/slide-away-slide-home/) - Sometimes we are scared that we are not going to sing or play the right note. But there is no reason to be scared, because we are always no more than a half-step away from a great note! This is wonderful game that gives us the opportunity to prove how close we are to harmony,
- [Floor Head Hum](https://www.gamesforsong.com/floor-head-hum/) - I was wondering aloud one day to a friend why we didn't all sing together more. I love to sing with other people, it's such a warm amazing feeling, and in some cultures it happens a lot; but we rarely ever sang with other people. Then I remembered a game that I learned from Professor
- [Playlists](https://www.gamesforsong.com/playlists/) - Warmup / MeetFloor Head HumSlide Away / Slide Home or Tee Tee Notes --> Tee Tee Note Thieves Listen / JoinCount CircleHeyOver and Over The CenterHeyListen / Play or Make It / Let It Composition / ImprovisationJust Go Start HeyDuets or Sonata Thieves or Falling or Roots
- [Count Circle](https://www.gamesforsong.com/twelve-count/) - My fourteen year-old daughter wanted to know how to invent musical phrases, motifs, and patterns. This comes in handy for games like Hey, Over and Over and lots of the other games in this book. Count Circle can help people make up a new musical pattern, even if they have no previous musical experience. Quietly
- [Just Go Start](https://www.gamesforsong.com/just-go-start/) - Jeff and Dan have been hosting these get togethers that they call Plebian Fiasco. At the last one we played Floor Head Hum, then Hey, then both at once so that people were playing a rhythm with their hands and feet and singing at the same time. Then we slowly faded into silence, until people

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- [First Games](https://www.gamesforsong.com/category/first-games/) - Games to start
- [Solo Games](https://www.gamesforsong.com/category/solo-games/) - Games to play alone
- [Circle Games](https://www.gamesforsong.com/category/circle-games/) - Now you are really playing
- [Advanced Games](https://www.gamesforsong.com/category/advanced-games/)
- [Ending Games](https://www.gamesforsong.com/category/ending-games/) - To finish the night