Mind the Gap!
Beginner level pitch games...
In this game, you will identify intervals between bells. The more accurately you can do this, the better you will be at using your ears to hear who is doing what and where you fit into the sounds we create.
‘Mind the Step’ is very simple and helps prove that no one is really tone deaf. Hopefully, you can all tell the difference between trebles and tenors… and you shouldn’t need to feel weight on a rope to do it either!
‘Mind the Gap’ takes that to the next level and you compare two intervals and decide which is biggest.
Mind the Step! ...Higher or Lower?
This first set of games is designed to convince those who claim to be tone deaf, that they are not!
For most, it will seem very easy, so feel free to skip this part…
In Mind the Gap… Higher or Lower, you have to identify intervals between bells at the most simple level… You will hear 2 bells and all you need to do, is say if the second bell you hear is a higher pitched (smaller) or lower pitched (bigger) bell.
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
What is the pitch of the second bell you hear?
Mind the Gap... Bigger or Smaller?
In Mind the Gap… Bigger or Smaller, you hear 3 bells not two. You need to listen carefully and then decide whether the interval between the first and second bell is bigger or smaller than the interval between the second and third.
Example
In the example, we ring bells 1,3 and 8, so the first gap very obviously is the smaller one… If we listen, we will hear the gap between 1 and 3 is a major 3rd and the gap between 3 and 8 is a minor 6th.
You do not need to identify the intervals by name, just recognise the first gap as bigger, smaller or the same (equal) as the second. Of course in the games, we won’t be telling you which bells we are ringing… that would be too easy and require no listening at all!
In some of the games the bells could include a jump up and a jump down as well as two in the same direction.