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Tuned Percussion in the Music Classroom - a Teachers Guide

Tuned Percussion is great fun - most of you hear an "F" because one student has
the Time! However, it can be a source of an F# on their instrument!
headaches (literally!) for music teachers The best tip I have for this is to simply
if its not implemented in a careful way. take those substitute bars, put them into
This article is to give you some hints a box and lock them away!
and tricks on how to maintain and look The best solution is to simply find
after the instruments, plus the types of music, transpose music or write music
music to play which have the greatest that is only in C MAJOR. That way you
chances of success. won't be messing around chaning notes,
1)Organization is the key and you can get on with making music!
With tuned percussion instruments in a 4) Go for Wood - Not Metal - and get them
music class you have to be totally all at once!
organized. I've seen more broken "Metallophones" at
Each instrument needs a shelf where it schools than any other instrument. For
lives permanently - so that students know some reason they always seem to have
where it goes back after it has been gotten lost bars and damaged rubber
used. You've got to establish these strips under the bars which result in a
places early in the routine and have loud "clunk" whenever you try to play
ordering about how the students go about them!
picking them out and playing them. Glockenspiels are very challenging for
2) Go All Diatonic or All Chromatic young children - the bars are really
One of the big problems is that many orff small... and piercing on the ears as
style tuned percussion instruments are well.
sold in two bits - the main "diatonic" My advice... go for WOOD every time.
part of the instrument, plus they offer a diatonic xylophones, with a box
"chromatic extension" which is simply the resonator.
black notes on a separate box resonator. You should really take ALL your budget in
In my experience these things are far one year and dedicate it to this - don't
more hassle than they are worth, buy one or two at once.. That will not
particularly for elementary school suffice for a whole class. Get a class
classes. You are much better off with set of ten to twenty xylophones that are
just a diatonic instrument that isn't in all identical and they will last for
"two bits" years.
Organizing a class so that everyone has Get one or two at a time and you'll find
to get the main instrument, and then get that they get mixed up and no-one knows
the chromatic extension and put it in what bars and bits go with what
front is far too difficult for most instrument!
elementary classes. 5) Mallets all identical - all in one
In theory of course the elementary class place
can use just the diatonic bit, and the One simple thing you can do is get a full
more advanced can use the full set of mallets, and make them all
chromatic.. but it rarely works that way! identical!
The only schools where I've seen those If you get a box or a large jar and
chromatic extensions they are generally dedicate it to this purpose then students
put away into a cupboard and never used! will know that they have to get and
Still, if you have more advanced or older return the mallets to this location and
students then you should get fully they'll get used to this procedure.
chromatic instruments to start with! If you only have wooden xylophones then
3) Play everything in C Major you won't have to worry about different
One of the big "time wasters" is those mallets for the glockenspiels and
substitute F sharp and B flat bars that metallophones.
are included with many of the diatonic Of course I'm talking about an ideal
instruments. These have to be a complete situation - and I know that its not
waste of time for teachers. Often you can common that you get the budget to go out
spend half the class making sure that all and get a full class set of new tuned
the students have the right notes on percussion instruments for an elementary
their instruments, and then you'll still school.
hear something funny going on whenever




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