• Lesson ideas to teach students about Tuned Percussion Instruments.

    Thursday, March 18th, 2010

    To 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. If the students have [...]

    Tuned Percussion instruments and how to use them in music class

    Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

    Students 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, 2010

    Creating 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 student [...]

    Classroom music ideas to learn about tuned percussion

    Thursday, March 11th, 2010

    Students 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, 2010

    here 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 of [...]

    Lesson planning ideas all about tuned percussion

    Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

    here 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 plays [...]