The multisensory teaching tool for innovative music education
The Rhythm Pin Board is the perfect tool for music lessons! With pins in different shapes, rhythms can be represented visually and by touch. The active insertion of the pins promotes multisensory stimulation in the brain. The combination of seeing, feeling and acting makes learning more effective, as multisensory learning theory shows. Rhythms are thus not only understood, but also firmly anchored in the memory. Whether simple quarters, eighth or complex patterns - , the Rhythm Pin Board makes rhythms tangible and fun to experience. Perfect for students of all ages and a must for modern music lessons.
The Rhythm Pin Board
It all started with the question: how can learning a percussion instrument be made easier?
Anyone who wants to learn an instrument faces several challenges: In addition to the unfamiliar coordination of fingers, hands, and feet, students often have to learn an entirely new language - the language of musical notation. Especially in the beginning, this usually leads to rhythms being misread and, as a result, played incorrectly. That can quickly become frustrating and significantly reduce motivation to practice regularly. The consequences are well known: slow progress, tense lessons, and in the worst case, the decision to give up the instrument altogether.
To counteract this, we teamed up with music educators to find effective solutions. That’s how the idea for the Rhythm Pin Board was born: a learning tool that represents rhythms in a simple, visual way. This helps students grasp them more easily, understand them more quickly, and perform them more accurately.
The basic Rhythm Pin Board set consists of an acacia wood strip with two sides: one with 8 holes for simple eighth-note rhythms, and one with 16 holes for more complex sixteenth-note grooves. It also includes three different types of pins, which can be used to represent elements such as bass, snare, and tap.
In the following quick-start video, we explain how to successfully introduce the Rhythm Pin Board to students.