Bass Xylophone Used to Accompany a Circle Game

Second Grade students played a circle game called “Charlie Over the Ocean”. The object of this game is to get tagged (vs. trying NOT to get tagged). Then the “out” students go take a turn playing the accompaniment for this song using the bass xylophone. Students played a steady beat pattern using both hands on an open fifth (notes C and G). Another instrument was added: finger cymbals. Students played the bass xylophone for seven beats and then the finger cymbals played on the eighth beat.