Jumpstart Learning Games Music Ages 5-8
Join Hopsalot on an enchanting adventure through the four different lands of Music World. The magic and harmony of the Land of Music are being threatened by Sir Sour Notes, and the instruments need your help. Help Hopsalot restore the Royal Orchestra to King Harmony's kingdom by collecting the sour notes scattered about the land. Along the way, you'll play games that teach important music skills such as beat, rhythm, tone, and melody. (Ages 5-8)
Jumpstart Learning Games Music Ages 5-8 Accessories
 Music Games (Jewel Case)
Making Music: Create! Play! Experience! Win/Mac
Jumpstart 1st Grade Classic (PC & Mac)
Making More Music
JumpStart Kindergarten
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
Music Ace Deluxe
Hearing Music-The Game that Teaches You how to Listen!
JumpStart Explorers
Jumpstart Kindergarten Classic (PC & Mac)
Jumpstart Learning Games Music Ages 5-8 Reviews
The space bar is too sensitive for little fingers and makes extra beats. loved playing it. The only down side (as others have mentioned) is that the rhythm areas where you copy an animated character's rhythm are a bit too challenging to mimic with a space bar. Sir Sour Note is a bit creepy but she didn't seem to mind. But I don't see that as a negative. Hopefully it will be updated because it is hard to find good music software for children.
I was impressed by how quickly she picked up the various activities. She takes violin lessons and it reinforced a number of the concepts she had learned. Our game arrived last night. And yes as one reviewer said I needed to stay in the room with her. I thought the variety of musical activities and the story line made the program fun.
It is inexpensive so worth the money. For the most part my [.]. She especially liked the area where she could make her own music and listen to what she had created. The software is old generation, but not dated.
ha.haha.for quarter note and two eighth notes). . I highly recommend it. The Kindergartners must have prior instruction with the rhythms before attempting to use this.
Even though they saw it only goes to third grade level when first putting your name in the system, they realized pretty quickly that many of the rhythms go beyond 3rd grade level. Pros: I am a K-5 music teacher at a school district in Texas and have used Jumpstart Music with ALL grade levels with much success. Cons: The only negative thing I can say about this has to do with the sounds they make for the rhythms (i.e. However, after a few lessons to prepare, they were very successful.
However you CAN turn the voices off and remind the students to say the rhythms the way they were taught in class. Dallaslady They were challenged and for many who came from another district and perhaps had no prior music training, it is a great way to get them caught up with the class. I recently allowed by 4th and 5th graders to use it and they were completely happy with it.
Great program.
I strongly disagree with the unfavorable reviews. My kids were 4 and 6 when they first found it; now 5 and 7, they still dig it. The older one takes piano lessons and this helped supplement her initial learning. We checked this out from the library time and time again. The kids have asked for their own copy for Christmas.
Anyways, also, one of my sisters in nicknamed Russian Blue Witch (I'm nicknamed StoryMaker) and she just entered 5th Grade and uses 3rd Grade as her grade level cuz' that's the highest in this, but anyways, this is a big UGH. She tries the beat thing, but the characters say it is wrong. (I also think this software is veeeeery old. Signed, StoryMaker. With old JumpStart software, it is always only one grade level's worth of characters. They don't understand you're right. But anyways, in JumpStart Pre-K there is only the preschool characters, no "K" characters.
It is the worst of the 3 CD's and we suggested mom to sell it on eBay.com. Try it if you want, but it might not be very good software. UGH. We got JumpStart Music as the second disc in the JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade 3 CD Pack. They are not pleased.
I don't think she's doing it because she said it's an "incomplete set", but anyways, WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE HOPSALOT. The box had both characters. What. "Gotta trust the kid's review." I mean, this is for like, Toddler to 3rd Grade, but Hopsalot is a Kindergarten character.
I enjoy cataching the sour notes and the things they say are funny, but I don't think you will like it that much. Too old for the new advanced series). Once, I saw a game online with the Kindergarten character (Hopsalot) and the 1st Grade character (Frankie) and it was old, but I only found it on that site and there was no discription, just the box and the title. So you have to to the right beat over and over again for the character to be pleased.
Now my four year old won't either because of the first child's fright. It is a shame that Jumpstart couldn't find a way to encourage a child's exploration of the wonders of music without this 'Hollywood' gimic of good and evil. Shouldn't an introduction to music be a joy, not a traumatic experience. My 5-year old was frightened by Sir Sour Note, and to this day (over a year later) she refuses to play this software.
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