Musical improv games

By no means comprehensive, but a few of our all time favourite and our most relied upon musical improv games to fit almost any occasion.  We have categorised them according to their skill level but this is fairly arbitrary as anyone can have a go at anything! 

Warm ups

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Level

Game

Rhyme

Melody

Harmony

Song structure

No words

Circle

Stage

Musician

Kids

Podcast

Backing Track

Video

Beginners

Scales

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Video

Beginners

Moving and Emoting

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Beginners

Gibberish duets

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Video

Beginners

Sing your name

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Video

Level

Game

Rhyme

Melody

Harmony

Song structure

No words

Circle

Stage

Musician

Kids

Podcast

Backing Track

Video

Intermediate

Harmony duets

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Intermediate

Band

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Intermediate

Phil Lunn’s circle of joy

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Intermediate

Pointing Song

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Hot Spot

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Acapella harmonies

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Intermediate

Doo ron ron

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Intermediate

Musical 8 things

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Video

Intermediate

Rounds

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Intermediate

Showstopper

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Our Love is Like

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Video

Intermediate

Rhyme ball

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Intermediate

Hush little baby

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Video

Intermediate

Gibberish musical

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Intermediate

Busby Berkely

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Intermediate

Oscar Winner

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Intermediate

Tag out musical

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Level

Game

Rhyme

Melody

Harmony

Song structure

No words

Circle

Stage

Musician

Kids

Podcast

Backing Track

Video

Advanced

123454321 etc

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Video

Advanced

Sing as soon as music plays

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Advanced

All Things Bright and Beautiful

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Advanced

Madrigal

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Video

Advanced

Blues

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Video

Advanced

Beastie Boys

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Advanced

Bad Rap

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Advanced

Sing your day

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Advanced

Musical Henry

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Level

Game

Rhyme

Melody

Harmony

Song structure

No words

Circle

Stage

Musician

Kids

Podcast

Backing Track

Video

Expert

Hoedown

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Video

Expert

Two by Two

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Expert

Favourite things

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Expert

Set ups

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Expert

Titling a song

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Expert

Sing it

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Level

Game

Rhyme

Melody

Harmony

Song structure

No words

Circle

Stage

Musician

Kids

Podcast

Backing Track

Video

Songs

Pirate Reel

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Songs

Irish Drinking Song

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Songs

Charity Song

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Songs

Tagline Song

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Songs

Verse Chorus

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Songs

Set up Song

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Songs

Counterpoint song

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Songs

Split Scene Tagline

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