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Auralia & Musition are excited to announce the release of a set of video game music-based aural skills worksheets curated by Dr. Thomas B. Yee (The University of Texas at San Antonio). These classroom‑ready worksheets pair beloved game themes with targeted ear‑training tasks so instructors can teach tonic identification, rhythm and harmonic dictation, improvisation, composition, timbre, and more using repertoire students already love.
| Level | Focus | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Listening Worksheet | Core musicianship concepts including tonality, instrument identification, tempo, tonic ID, density, dynamics and contour that are appropriate for middle school and high school students. This worksheet requires no notation skills or formal music vocabulary. |
| 1 | Improvisation | Students record themselves improvising over an E minor, video game music inspired accompaniment. |
| 2 | Listening Worksheet | Core musicianship concepts including tonality, instrument identification, tempo, tonic ID, density, dynamics and contour that are appropriate for high school and 1st year university students. This worksheet requires some notation skills and formal music vocabulary including predominant chords. |
| 2 | Improvisation | Students record themselves improvising over an E minor, video game music inspired accompaniment. |
| 2 | Composition | Students compose a melody for a given E minor, video game music inspired accompaniment. |
| 3 | Listening Worksheet | Musicianship concepts including tonality, scale degree ID, interval recognition, cadences, form, rhythm and harmonic dictation that are appropriate for 1st year university students. This worksheet requires notation skills and formal music vocabulary including applied chords. |
| 3 | Improvisation | Students record themselves improvising over a mixolydian chord loop with a video game music inspired accompaniment. |
| 3 | Composition | Students compose a melody for a given mixolydian, video game music inspired accompaniment. |
| 4 | Listening Worksheet | Musicianship concepts including scale degree ID, chromatic chord ID, harmonic dictation and modulation that are appropriate for 1st and 2nd year university students. This worksheet requires notation skills and formal music vocabulary including mixture chords. |
| 4 | Improvisation | Students record themselves improvising over a lydian chord loop with a video game music inspired accompaniment. |
| 4 | Composition | Students compose a melody for a given lydian, video game music inspired accompaniment. |
Creative tasks are powerful motivators. Let students improvise and compose directly from the game‑music examples to turn abstract aural and theory concepts into tangible musical choices; melody, mode, and rhythm, become tools they can shape and hear immediately. The Auralia worksheets explicitly include improvisation and composition exercises tied to VGM inspired accompaniments, giving students structured freedom to apply what they know.
