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Tuned Percussion in the Music Classroom - a Teachers Guide

Tuned Percussion is great fun - most ofnotes on their instruments, and then
the Time! However, it can be a source ofyou'll still hear something funny going
headaches (literally!) for musicon whenever you hear an "F" because one
teachers if its not implemented in astudent has an F# on their instrument!
careful way.The best tip I have for this is to
This article is to give you some hintssimply take those substitute bars, put
and tricks on how to maintain and lookthem into a box and lock them away!
after the instruments, plus the types ofThe best solution is to simply find
music to play which have the greatestmusic, transpose music or write music
chances of success.that is only in C MAJOR. That way you
1)Organization is the keywon't be messing around chaning notes,
With tuned percussion instruments in aand you can get on with making music!
music class you have to be totally4) Go for Wood - Not Metal - and get
organized.them all at once!
Each instrument needs a shelf where itI've seen more broken "Metallophones" at
lives permanently - so that studentsschools than any other instrument. For
know where it goes back after it hassome reason they always seem to have
been used. You've got to establish thesegotten lost bars and damaged rubber
places early in the routine and havestrips under the bars which result in a
ordering about how the students go aboutloud "clunk" whenever you try to play
picking them out and playing them.them!
2) Go All Diatonic or All ChromaticGlockenspiels are very challenging for
One of the big problems is that manyyoung children - the bars are really
orff style tuned percussion instrumentssmall... and piercing on the ears as
are sold in two bits - the mainwell.
"diatonic" part of the instrument, plusMy advice... go for WOOD every time.
they offer a "chromatic extension" whichdiatonic xylophones, with a box
is simply the black notes on a separateresonator.
box resonator.You should really take ALL your budget
In my experience these things are farin one year and dedicate it to this -
more hassle than they are worth,don't buy one or two at once.. That will
particularly for elementary schoolnot suffice for a whole class. Get a
classes. You are much better off withclass set of ten to twenty xylophones
just a diatonic instrument that isn't inthat are all identical and they will
"two bits"last for years.
Organizing a class so that everyone hasGet one or two at a time and you'll find
to get the main instrument, and then getthat they get mixed up and no-one knows
the chromatic extension and put it inwhat bars and bits go with what
front is far too difficult for mostinstrument!
elementary classes.5) Mallets all identical - all in one
In theory of course the elementary classplace
can use just the diatonic bit, and theOne simple thing you can do is get a
more advanced can use the fullfull set of mallets, and make them all
chromatic.. but it rarely works thatidentical!
way!If you get a box or a large jar and
The only schools where I've seen thosededicate it to this purpose then
chromatic extensions they are generallystudents will know that they have to get
put away into a cupboard and never used!and return the mallets to this location
Still, if you have more advanced orand they'll get used to this procedure.
older students then you should get fullyIf you only have wooden xylophones then
chromatic instruments to start with!you won't have to worry about different
3) Play everything in C Majormallets for the glockenspiels and
One of the big "time wasters" is thosemetallophones.
substitute F sharp and B flat bars thatOf course I'm talking about an ideal
are included with many of the diatonicsituation - and I know that its not
instruments. These have to be a completecommon that you get the budget to go out
waste of time for teachers. Often youand get a full class set of new tuned
can spend half the class making surepercussion instruments for an elementary
that all the students have the rightschool.



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