2010 · Amagination
The MelodieXpress Rhythm Deck provides a sneak peak at the next expansion for the MelodieXpress family of games. The 52 card deck showcases some of the new cards available.
Rhythm Deck Contents
The MelodieXpress Rhythm Deck includes playing cards based around music notation as the basis for games and activities. The deck includes cards for a range of notes –quavers, crotchets, semibreves and minims; dotted crotchets and dotted semibreves; along with doublet and triplet crotchets and doublet, triplet and quadruplet quavers. It also includes the corresponding rests for quaver, crotchet, semibreve and minim.
The card designs differ from the earlier decks. As the cards focus upon elements of rhythm, the notes are depicted on a plain background without staff lines. This allows players to visually focus upon the individual note values rather than positioning against the staff to discern the pitch of the notes.
Games
The MelodieXpress Rhythm Deck provides a set of cards only. The cards may be used with the games from the MelodieXpress Note Reading and Composing Music packs. ‘Snap’, ‘Memory’, ‘Rows’ and ‘Rhythm Lunch’ all work well with this deck – though the players focus upon matching the note duration rather than its pitch.
