Playing a xylophone is a lot of fun.
Students learn proper mallet technique and where it is best to strike the bars (in the middle) for the best sound.
Students need to experience playing the bars — just how hard or soft to strike the bars. They are encouraged to play all the bars in a random fashion and discover just how much is too much. If the bars jump up or come out of place, then it was too much. But if they can hardly hear the bars being played, it is too little.
Students discover high and low sounds, too. On our xylophones each bar is a different size which helps students learn “the bigger the bar, the lower the sound” and “the smaller the bar, the higher the sound”.
Students discover that the bars have alphabet letters marked on them. But it is only the first seven letters of the alphabet: A-B-C-D-E-F-G
All students played the xylophones during music class!
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