A major classroom update: new teacher tools, Rhythm Runner, live multiplayer games, and our friend Band Bot.
TEACHER TOOLSA new Teacher Dashboard
Find classroom activities, assignments, assessments, Classroom Display, and live games in one place. Ready-to-Teach activities include suggested grades, musical goals, student directions, and estimated practice time. Filter by grade, course, concept, or duration, then launch an activity or copy its assignment link. The illustrated teacher walkthrough remains available in Resources.
ASSESSMENTSBuild assessments and exit tickets
Create an exit ticket or a full assessment using Staff Reading, Complete the Measure, Key Signature Trainer, Interval Trainer, Chord Decoder, Chord Ear Trainer, or Transposition. Start from a preset or import a supported assignment, choose 1–50 questions, edit the title and instructions, preview every question, and regenerate individual questions or the whole set.
Choose a time limit, feedback and review options, and the same questions for everyone or randomized versions. Share a student link, print the assessment and a separate answer key, review it in Classroom Display, or save and duplicate configurations in this browser. Students can print or save their results; results are not automatically sent to the teacher.
CLASSROOM DISPLAYBring practice to the big screen
Project large notation and answer controls in Teacher-Led Practice, Classroom Challenge, or a manually scored Team Challenge for two to four teams. Seven integrated activities support question history, hints, answer reveal, supported audio, and teacher-controlled progression. Optional timers, class scoring, light and dark themes, extra-large notation, fullscreen, and reduced animation help fit your classroom. Other supported games can launch in their original format with a presentation-friendly layout.
NEW GAMERhythm Runner: tap, hold, and keep the beat
Play along with real backing tracks and a freshly generated piano part. Tap short notes, hold longer notes, and read rests, beams, and rhythm patterns as Band Bot runs. Half-note holds use the correct notation, adjacent eighths beam together, and release timing gives a little room to finish a hold. Piano notes follow each section’s scale.
ADVENTURE MODETwelve levels across four songs
Adventure chooses the tempo and rhythm difficulty for you. Levels 1–3 use RR1: G and D blues at 90 BPM, moving from whole, half, and quarter notes to rests, eighths, and dotted halves. Levels 4–6 use RR2: F and C blues at 90 BPM, adding syncopation and eighth-note triplets. Levels 7–9 use RR3: A♭ and E♭ blues at 110 BPM with a faster, more syncopated challenge.
Levels 10–12 introduce RR4 in 6/8: G harmonic minor and D major at 90 BPM, with three beamed eighths, longer holds, and eighth rests. These levels ease back the difficulty for the new meter and use regular eighths rather than triplets. Each song changes key every four bars through three cycles. RR1 and RR2 use the corrected recordings, and 6/8 count-offs give six eighth-note ticks.
CUSTOM & ASSIGNMENTSChoose your Rhythm Runner experience
Custom Experience replaces Trail Levels. Select the tracks and rhythmic patterns you want to practice, then play one complete selected song per run. Adventure, Endless, and Custom all support Teacher Assign links, so teachers can share a chosen level or a tailored rhythm-and-track mix. The Listen First button has been removed.
ENDLESS MODEA set that keeps getting harder
Endless starts with RR1, RR2, and RR3 in order, then selects from the song pool without immediately repeating a track. Each transition leaves one measure of rest and gives a full count-off for the next song. Later rounds gradually raise the tempo while preserving pitch, add more syncopation, and introduce sixteenth-note patterns and quarter-note triplets on eligible 4/4 tracks. Sixteenth rests are excluded, RR3 has no sixteenths, and 6/8 keeps its regular eighth-note groups.
RHYTHM RUNNER FEEDBACKMore life in every run
Start Endless with three hearts and recover one for a 20-note streak, up to the heart limit. An earned heart rises from Band Bot inside the game without shifting the page. Holds create wave effects, misses bring hurt poses and lightning, and losing fades the music as Band Bot falls away. Results pop into place with expressive faces, a typing speech bubble, encouraging lines, and a special message for a new local record.
RHYTHM RUNNER LIVERun together until the last player falls
A teacher hosts a room and shares its link or code. Students join by name, and the teacher starts everyone on the same Endless rhythm and song sequence—no Ready button needed. Choose classroom-speaker audio from the teacher’s device or sound on player devices. Heart recovery and the growing challenge carry into live play, and the final player’s loss brings up the shared top-three podium.
BAND GAMES LIVEMix your favorite games into one live quiz
Host simultaneous music questions drawn from 14 existing game activities. Mix note reading, enharmonics, key signatures, measure completion, intervals, chords, scales, listening, and more. Choose a premade difficulty or customize individual game content, category rotation, question count, timers, scoring, reveal time, and automatic or manual progression. Earlier correct answers can earn more points, or teachers can choose accuracy-only scoring.
Rhythm Runner has its own live room type. Daily puzzles, transposition, instrument fingering, and Mallet Keyboard Reading stay outside the mixed live pool. Teachers can preview questions before creating a room and choose teacher-device or player-device audio.
PLAYER PROFILESYour avatar, your clef, your place in the band
Students choose a supplied avatar and their preferred treble or bass clef before play, and can change either in the lobby. Pitched questions adapt to the student’s clef while the teacher sees both treble and bass notation. Join by a unique room link or six-character code without an account or Ready step. Classroom name filtering checks player and team names, and teachers retain lobby moderation controls.
LAST BOT STANDINGMusic theory meets musical survival
Begin with 1, 2, 3, or 5 hearts. Correct answers keep your hearts; wrong or unanswered questions cost one. The last surviving Bot wins. Teachers choose question content, timers, a question or active-time limit, and whether resurrection and Ghost Army features are enabled. Simultaneous final-heart losses enter bounded sudden death, with shared honors for exact unresolved ties.
GHOST MODEEliminated Bots keep playing
Lose your final heart and become a floating, translucent Ghost Bot. Keep answering every question to earn Spirit Points, build a Ghost Streak, and climb a separate Ghost Leaderboard. Eligible ghosts can compete for a one-heart resurrection about every five questions, with one return per player. Ghost Army answers fill the Haunt Meter for a resurrection opportunity or Spirit Point surge, and ghosts occasionally vote on the next category. Final Three closes resurrection, and the finale celebrates both Last Bot Standing and Ghost Champion.
TEAM BATTLETwo to four teams. One captain’s call.
Choose random, evenly balanced, or manual team assignment, customize filtered team names and colors, and appoint captains. Everyone answers individually; team scoring combines accuracy and speed while accounting for team size. Players see their own contributions, team momentum, and standings. Teachers can reassign teams between questions, replace captains, pause or resume, and end the match.
CAPTAIN POWERSCollect powers and choose when to use them
Teams hold up to three collected powers, and only the current captain can activate one per question during the pre-question window. Classic powers include Double Time, 50/50, Sneak Peek, Safety Net, and Perfect Harmony. Chaos adds Shield and the temporary Time Crunch, Streak Freeze, and Point Jam effects. Powers stay available until used, and incompatible powers cannot be spent.
Strong performance and optional comeback opportunities earn powers without activating them automatically. Targeting limits protect teams from repeated curses. Optional Perfect Harmony rounds, volunteer Spotlight Showdowns, and Choose Your Battlefield category choices add variety. Teachers can switch powers, individual curses, comeback rewards, and special events on or off.
LIVE CELEBRATIONSA more animated classroom stage
Live games add streak flames, animated leaderboards, score changes, podiums, crowns, and finale confetti. Last Bot Standing has a Bot arena with disappearing hearts, ghost transformations, resurrection announcements, and a dramatic Final Three. Team Battle adds team-colored score bars, mini Bot armies, captain crowns, power effects, and a trophy celebration. Effects respect reduced-motion preferences, and reconnecting players retain their room progress.
MEET BAND BOTA little conductor with a lot of personality
Meet Band Bot, our lavender conductor with lime eyes, a bow tie, and a baton. Find him hanging from the navigation bar, cheering around the site, running with you in Rhythm Runner, and celebrating on game result screens. Friendly waves, winks, smiles, and conducting poses replace the old result sparkle. The original people artwork stays part of the homepage and avatar system.
SCORE MATCHA smoother difficulty progression
Five practice levels—Beginner, Developing, Intermediate, Proficient, and Advanced—build up with familiar musical patterns, controlled ranges, and fewer rest chains. Presets avoid dotted sixteenths, sixteenth rests, and extreme combinations. Rhythm and pitch comparisons use clearer, musically related choices, while notation gives dots, beams, ties, and accidentals more room. Custom retains broader content choices for teachers who want them.
ENHARMONIC TRAINERClearer notes, answer formats, and clef choices
Allowed accidental types now apply consistently to questions, choices, typed answers, and hints. Choose Multiple Choice, Fill in the Answer, or Mixed independently of note-name or staff presentation. Presets expose treble and bass clef choices, and Teacher Assign preserves the chosen clef and answer format. Impossible Custom combinations receive an explanation instead of introducing excluded notes.
NAVIGATION & BETA NOTESA cleaner way around BandGames
Join Band Games Live directly from the navigation bar using a room code. Your Instrument is a compact dropdown button, the Games menu layers correctly above it, and a smaller Band Bot hangs just to its right. The Skills dropdown is removed; About and What’s New are available in the footer. Release notes now expand by version without dates.
Teacher accounts, automatic assessment submissions, the Lesson Plan Builder, and educator certification are still upcoming. This Beta includes the playable tools described above while those additional teacher features continue in development.
