Music-Go-Rounds Manipulatives

Show, touch, feel, and perform patterns of beats with our interactive silicone manipulatives.

Learn to identify various ensembles, sing in solo, duet, trio, etc; listen and identify various groupings. Much more in our PDF Guide.

Learn the Italian terms and use the MGRs to change the tempos of a song, a groove, a chant. Listen to music and select the tempo. Many more activities in our PDF Guide.

8 sets of our tactile silicone manipulatives and the Jumbo Cube in which to use them to play games.

Arrange AlphaDots on the whiteboard in melodic phrases, familiar tunes, adding chords, or ostinatos. Then play on the color-coded bells and sing.

Identify the moods of the imaginative and varied film music on the CDs with our silicone manipulative EMOJIs. 

Our silicone manipulatives make learning "stick."  Use with the spinners for learning notes, intervals, chords, and more.

Baton and 3 MGR sets—Articulation, Tempo, Dynamics—to hone interpretive skills. 

Introduce terms and concepts with the word wall and play games and explore the concepts with Music-Go-Rounds silicone manipulatives on whiteboard and charts. PDF Guides with each MGR set provide many activities and games.

"Creativity is just connecting things."  Steve Jobs   Connect our silicone dots to compose and orchestrate simply and easily.

8 sets of our silicone manipulatives provide the most fun way to ease into orchestrating and composing! They will become your classroom favorites!

Introduce terms/symbols with a word wall of colorful posters and then interact with them using our Music-Go-Rounds manipulatives in songs, grooves, listening. Our PDF Guides offer many games and activities. 

Music-Go-Rounds: Using Manipulatives to Explore the Elements of Music by Mark Burrows. With expertise and humor, shows how to use MGRs to full advantage to teach all aspects of music. Plus 27 sets of MGRs to put to use in your current curriculum.

Manipulatives make learning stick as kids learn and make choices about the elements of music through active listening, games, orchestrating songs/poems, more.

Our tactile silicone manipulatives that stick to smooth surfaces focus attention, increase concentration, engage multiple senses, enhance memory, and accelerate comprehension.  These are the most flexible tools in your classroom--and will become both your and your student's favorites.

Create rhythm grooves, choose patterns of rhythms and instruments to create a sound story or chant, set up a groove, select instruments and ensembles groupings, listen to music and guess the ensemble.

Learn about ensembles: terminology and how many in each. Cross over to math, too.  Both are more fun with manipulatives.

Our tactile silicone manipulatives that stick to smooth surfaces focus attention, increase concentration, engage multiple senses, enhance memory, and accelerate comprehension.