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["Carol Townsend" <edu-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow... these look fantastic Johnpaul!

I did have a couple of questions - being a science teacher, I can tell you why carbon dioxide is heavier than air... but I'm only a pracitced amatuer when it comes to music.  My mom has perfect pitch, and since she's my relative, I have relative pitch.... (ok... enough with the bad jokes.)  True though - my mom studied music, has perfect pitch, and I grew up reading music at the same time I was reading kid's books.

So...back to my questions.  what is an Orff instrument?  I see it on a lot of your Goals, but I don't know what it is.  I'm just curious.

Also, you have 4 copies of "Improvise a 4/4 measure", 2 of 9/8, 2 of 6/8 and 2 of 3/4.  I know what each of those time signatures mean, but I don't really get why you need multiple copies of the goal. I would think you'd want multiple copies of the Keepers to be able to make full measures to improvise.

I like the way you've rethemed the basic cards to fit your needs, like Forced Improv or Old Improv Ideas.  I was thinking you could do a few more... maybe some ideas from students can add on to this (one obvious rethemed cards was "Second Gig" instead of Double Agenda... you're so successful as a musician that they want you back for a second gig!  You win with either Goal...)

But it looks like you've got a winner - this is great!

Carol

On 3/29/07, Juanpablo Amado < cardzmaster2004@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello all!  I know I don't post on here often, but I need some help witha
project I'm working on.

Earlier this week, I taught a lesson in one of my methods classes about
rhythm and texture.  I adapted Fluxx so that students could easily compose
measures based on the goal card that was already out and the Keepers they
had.  The game played a bit slowely, but it went well overall.  I'd like to
know what you all think about the game and what I could do to improve it.
Below are the links to three PDF with all the cards on them.  They are
large, just to forewarn you:

http://people.cedarville.edu/Student/tjadams/Card%20Sheet-%20Most%20N.Rules%20and%20Most%20Keepers.pdf

http://people.cedarville.edu/Student/tjadams/Card%20Sheet-%20Actions%20and%201%20Keeper.pdf

http://people.cedarville.edu/Student/tjadams/Card%20Sheet-%20Goals%20and%20Some%20N.Rules.pdf

The overall response I got was that everyone loved the game and would
definitely use it in their classrooms.  But they felt some of the rhythms
were too difficult to perform on just a sightreading.  Any suggestions would
be greatly appreciated.  Thanks a Bunch!

~Johnpaul Adams.

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