‘Interval Detective’ | Card Game AND Board Game!

Help your students MASTER intervals on keyboard, BOOST keyboard geography, and IMPROVE sight reading, with these TWO versatile and fun Detective Games…with THREE different levels of play. Great for in-person and online teaching!

Intervals are the basic building blocks of melody and harmony so recognising intervals visually – both on the staff and on the keyboard – is an important skill for students to master.  Fluency with music intervals helps budding musicians improve intervallic sight reading, understand keyboard geography, and boost music theory skills!

This set gives gives you two fun games to help students understand, measure, read and write musical intervals.  As students solve each ‘clue’ it also incorporates kinaesthetic, visual and auditory learning. 

Students struggling with sight reading? The Card Game levels are ideal to use in one-on-one music lessons – use them as a lesson starter or as a change of activity half way through. 

Teaching in a class setting? You will love how the Board Game extends the Card Games, giving lots of fun repetition for optimal learning.  Ideal for group class or ‘Piano Party’ events, and it can also be played with just student and teacher in lesson time, for a bit of relaxed revision & interval drill.

What’s Inside the ‘COMPLETE Bundle’:

• The Card Game – With all 3 levels of ‘Interval Clue Cards’:  Beginner, Elementary AND Intermediate levels.  That’s a total of 144 challenge cards! Rules & set-up instructions are also included making it easy to play in one-on-one lessons. Lay the foundation for fluent sight reading and music theory!
• Both Board Games – This bundle includes both the Printable Game Board AND the Online Game board:  Make the printable Game Board large, medium, or small – you can set the size you want in your printer properties. Teaching online? Share the Online Game Board directly from your Google Drive during lessons! Easy-to-use playing rules are also included, making it flexible to use group classes.
• A mini music staff ‘White Board’ for each level – These cute ‘whiteboards’ are ready to print and laminate. Students can write down the notes as they solve the clues! Use it with both the Card Games and Board Games – it’s a great way to reinforce keyboard geography & sight reading skills.
• ‘My Gaming Record’ chart for each student to track their own progress – a great way to set long term goals and chart progress.
• Three colourful ‘official’ Certificates of Achievement’ – one for each level.  Challenge students to collect all three certificates!
• Teacher ‘helper key’ page included with level 3 – so it’s easy to check student’s answers, if you’re feeling tired!
• Immediate availability by digital download from your customer dashboard.  All the prep work, layout, and graphic design is done so you can just print and play.  Print it yourself or take it to a print shop – Printing instructions are all included
• Studio Licence – allows you to print these cards for all your own students, for at home practice, if needed.

Improve your elementary and intermediate students grasp of keyboard geography and interval recognition. Build the foundation for confident intervallic sight reading – Grab the Interval Detective teaching bundle today!

Find out more:

The CARD GAME SET itself has three levels:  The beginner level focuses on interval measuring skills up to a 5th; the elementary level adds in larger intervals, up to an octave; and the intermediate level helps students learn how to name intervals by quality as well as number!

Each Card Game Level includes:

• 48 ‘Interval Clue Cards’ in each level
• Each individual card has 5 interval clues for students to work out, to find the ‘missing note’.  This gives plenty of fresh challenges and lots of revision – with a multitude of interval questions!
• Intervals included are both ascending and descending, reinforcing the concept of ‘high’ and ‘low’ notes, direction on the keyboard, and pitch contour in music. These basic skills are the building blocks of good keyboard geography and sight reading skills!
• The artwork is bright, colourful and engaging – capturing students’ attention and making it feel like a ‘real’ game.
• A mini ‘white board’ ready to print, laminate and use with the game.  Using the whiteboard helps students connect the ‘keyboard geography’ of physical intervals on the keyboard to written music notation.  A great tool to improve sight reading!
• ‘My Gaming Record’ chart for each student to track their progress. Give every student their own chart to keep, or display them around the room.  Make it competitive or non-competitive, you choose!
• A colourful ‘official’ certificate of achievement that you can award to students who complete the number of cards you set for them. Especially great to build confidence AND motivation.
• The Studio Licence means you can also print ‘whiteboards’, record charts, and card sets to give all your own students – Great for online teaching too!
• Everything is immediately available in your customer dashboard. This digital download is ready to print and play. And all the printing instructions and game rules are included!

This game is great for enhancing both Sight Reading AND Music Theory skills!

Level 1: Beginners – Using 2nds, 3rds, 4ths, & 5ths – Take a look:

Level 2: Elementary – ALL intervals up to Octaves – Take a look:

Level 3: Late Elementary to Intermediate – Using intervals up to an octave & adding in interval ‘quality’ (ie, major, minor, & perfect intervals). Take a look:

The concept of intervals is very important across all syllabi for practical, aural & theory, especially in grades 1 to 4. Use the ‘Board Game Kit’ to make the ‘Detective Cards’ more versatile & ideal for GROUP CLASSES (and Piano Parties!)

Take a look through the printable ‘Board Game extension kit’ below:

The ‘Online Board Game’ extension kit is a valuable resource for online teaching: 

Built in Google Slides, this makes it easy to use the ‘Interval Detective Board Game’ when teaching online and hybrid, either one-on-one or group classes.  This online game will work well in any online teaching platform which allows you to share screen, and share screen controls, eg, Zoom or platforms with similar sharing capabilities.

The original, printable card sets work with this online board game too – The teacher will shuffle & display the printed ‘detective cards’, while online students can take turns ‘rolling’ the video dice, and moving their own game tokens & kit cards in the online board game. What a great way to make sight reading and music theory more fun online!

NOTE: If you have previously purchased the ‘Interval Detective Card Games’ you will only need to select the ‘Online Board Game Extension Kit’ option, to turn your card games into an online board game.

All online instructions are included – download and play this fun online learning game today.

Take a look through the Online Board Game extension kit below:

Versatile Purchase Options:

• COMPLETE Bundle – This includes everything shown here – All three sets of the printable Card Games, (including the Certificates, ‘Whiteboard’ printables, and game record chart) AND the printable Board Game extension kit AND also the Online Board Game extension kit, all with a discount of 20%
• Printable BIG BUNDLE – All the Printables: This includes all the printable materials shown here: All three sets of printable Card Games (including the Certificates, ‘Whiteboard’ printables, and game record chart) AND the printable Board Game extension kit, all with a discount of 15% (Note, this set does not include the Online Board Game extension kit).
• Online BIG BUNDLE – For ONLINE play: All three sets of printable Card Games (including the Certificates, ‘Whiteboard’ printables, and game record chart) AND the ONLINE Board Game extension kit, all with a discount of 15% (Note, if you already have the printable card games, you will only need to buy the ‘Online Board Game Extension Kit’ to turn your card game/s into an online board game).
• Card Game Sets 1, 2 & 3: This option includes ALL three printable card game sets – Beginner, Elementary, Intermediate (including the Certificates, ‘Whiteboard’ printables, and game record chart), all with a 10% discount
• Already have the Card Game Sets but want to upgrade to use the Board Game/s too? That’s easy, just select either of our Board Game ‘extension kits’ to extend your card game into a class game!

Looking for more Interval and Pitch reading resources?  You may like to check out the links below:

‘Go Fish’ Card Game – Intervals

Interval Posters Set

Digital and Online Pitch Reading Flashcards

General Info
Instantly download, print, and enjoy teaching—any future updates also included for free in your dashboard! Single Teacher Studio License covers all your personal students; Multi-Teacher Licenses available on request if not listed. PDFs are print-ready, some zipped—use 7-Zip to unzip. Tutorials and games will be saved in your Google Drive. Questions? We’ll do our best to help! Email us at: info@88musicalkeys.com