by Willow Neilson | Dec 30, 2020 | Music Games
I have a confession to make, I am a bad parent when it comes to device time with my child. I remember shaking my head before I was a parent, looking at kids on their devices at the table with their parents at restaurants. “I’ll never do that,” I declared in the usual...
by Willow Neilson | Dec 29, 2020 | Music Games
As interactive media continues to advance new ways of interacting with music combined with visuals abound. Synesthesia is the term given to the way hearing and seeing can overlap, some people even see colors when they hear music. There are many apps on the market that...
by Willow Neilson | Dec 29, 2020 | Music Education, Music Games
Jelly Band, Toca Band and Incredibox are all games that let you make your own music by combining animated characters to trigger looping sections of music. You can feel like you are making your own music by combining loops, short constantly repeating sections of music....
by Willow Neilson | Dec 29, 2020 | Music Education, Music Games
Platform: iOS Price: $3.99USD Morton Subotnick’s Pitch Painter is a simple yet elegant idea. You can paint with your finger across a screen. As you draw you create lines which correspond to music notes in a scale. The rise and fall of the line you draw visually...
by Willow Neilson | Dec 29, 2020 | Music Education, Music Games
Platform: iOSPrice: FreeTune Train features one of the most elegant designs for helping anyone create a musical melody. The player draws a line with their finger connecting what looks like a train line to different tree points to pick up passengers. Each passenger is...
by Willow Neilson | Dec 29, 2020 | Music Games
Rhythm Heaven is such a popular game with such a dedicated following there is a change.org petition to have the game ported to Nintendo Switch. It has a dedicated sub-reddit forum and has been put on 3 different Nintendo systems over many years. If you are craving...