WAR!

There is a party thrown at the piano any time I bring out the war deck!  This is a GREAT one to do at a group theory lesson!!!  I printed two decks from cphmusic onto cardstock so I could have two games going at a group theory party.  I highly recommend laminating them...I did not at first and wish I had!

We play this rhythm version of war as a standard war game...deal out all of the cards to the players in a stack so they can't see the face of the cards (I've had 2 or 3 players per game).  At the same time all of the players flip over their top card.  Each student has to identify how many counts their note or rest is worth.  Whoever has the highest note value gets to keep everyone's cards.  It doesn't matter if it is a note or a rest just it's value.

The best fun is when two people turn over a card with the same value - WAR time!  Each player then lays out two more cards face down and then flips over the 3rd card.  Whoever has the higher note value keeps ALL of the cards that are out!  My kids love it!  It is a war if one has a half note and one has a half rest since they are both worth 2 counts.  It is also a war if there are two beamed eighth notes against a quarter note (or triplet verses quarter rest, etc)

I did not print the 16th notes, the fermatas or the rests that came with the game.  I wanted to practice rests more so I made a page with lots of rests on it and printed it a couple of times.  Have fun!