Students learning tuned percussion in the classroom?
Friday, March 19th, 2010To help students understand how timpani can be tuned, demonstrate the effect of membrane tension on pitch. With a coffee can drum (see lessons on Untuned Percussion), you can often vary the tension of the skin by simply pressing or pulling at the edges of the skin, while another student hits the drum in steady [...]
Tuned Percussion instruments and how to use them in music class
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Students will enjoy learning about how the timpani are tuned by exploring the effect of the skins tightness on its pitch. With a simple home made drum, pull on the edges of the drumhead to put varying degrees of tension on it, while a student plays a steady drumbeat on it. Students can get into [...]
Classroom Lessons on Tuned Percussion instruments
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Creating music lesson plans about percussion instruments is easy with a few ideas detailed below. To help students understand how timpani can be tuned, demonstrate the effect of membrane tension on pitch. With a simple home made drum, pull on the edges of the drumhead to put varying degrees of tension on it, while a [...]
Learning about Xylophones, Glockenspiels and Marimbas at school
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Want some music lesson plans about percussion instruments? here is a few ideas To help students understand how timpani can be tuned, demonstrate the effect of membrane tension on pitch. With a simple home made drum, pull on the edges of the drumhead to put varying degrees of tension on it, while a student plays [...]
Xylophones, Marimbas and Glockenspiels in the music classroom
Friday, March 12th, 2010To help students understand how timpani can be tuned, demonstrate the effect of membrane tension on pitch. With a coffee can drum (see lessons on Untuned Percussion), pull on the edges of the drumhead to put varying degrees of tension on it, while a student plays a steady drumbeat on it. Students can get into [...]
Classroom music ideas to learn about tuned percussion
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Students will enjoy learning about how the timpani are tuned by exploring the effect of the skins tightness on its pitch. With a coffee can drum (see lessons on Untuned Percussion), pull on the edges of the drumhead to put varying degrees of tension on it, while a student plays a steady drumbeat on it. [...]
Learning about tuned percussion in the music class
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010here is a few fairly simple ideas for creating music lesson plans about percussion instruments. To help students understand how timpani can be tuned, demonstrate the effect of membrane tension on pitch. With a simple home made drum, you can often vary the tension of the skin by simply pressing or pulling at the edges [...]
Lesson planning ideas all about tuned percussion
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010here is a few ideas for creating a music lesson plan about percussion instruments. To help students understand how timpani can be tuned, demonstrate the effect of membrane tension on pitch. With a simple home made drum, pull on the edges of the drumhead to put varying degrees of tension on it, while a student [...]