🐙 Awful Tunes

This is the only band we could get

Pick one and start playing

Somebody hands you a tune to get played. This lot turned up, and every one of them plays it wrong:

So cut the tune into pieces and give each piece to whoever can just about manage it. Get to the end with nothing going wrong, using as few cuts as you dare.

Every card shows you what that one would do to the piece you are on, and the picture shades in what they cannot reach — so you can see a disaster coming before you hear it.

How to play ▾

How you win

Get a tune to the end with nothing going wrong. That is a star — and every cut you don't use is worth points, so the tidiest answer and the best answer are not the same answer.

Reading the picture

All of this is true the moment you hand a piece over. You never have to press anything to see it.

Pale bars — the tune as written.
Solid bars — what your lot actually play.
Shaded band — rungs that player cannot reach.
Red stripes — two of them playing at once.
Dotted stretch — nobody playing at all.
Past the END line — still going after the last beat.

Each card draws what that one would make of the piece you are on, with a dotted line where their slot runs out.

Try it, then play it for real

TRY IT is a rehearsal — nothing counts. PLAY IT FOR REAL is the take, in front of five people. After a rehearsal the line underneath says which half you have wrong: the cuts, or who is on them.

The red badges

CRASH, RUN ON, GAP, TOO HIGH FOR ME, TOO LOW FOR ME. The face on the badge is the one saying it, so “too high for me” means those notes are above what that player can reach. Tap a badge and it says what it means. On the harder songs they don't appear — you are told how many things went wrong and have to listen for where.

Two ways to play