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Free Xylophone / Glockenspiel App to Practice Without an Instrument
Update (3/17/20): It seems the app reviewed below is no longer available for Android. Not to worry, it is still available for iOS and there are plenty of xylophone apps for Android. I will be testing the other Android apps soon and I will then update this article with my recommendations. In the meantime, here…
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Best Glockenspiels for Beginner Home Practice
This year at Open School, Red and Silver Clusters are learning basic keyboard percussion, mostly on glockenspiels. And, Yellow Cluster is learning more advanced percussion on glockenspiels, xylophones, metallophones, bass bars, hand drums, and other percussion instruments. Students are not in any way required to have a mallet percussion instrument for home practice. However, students…
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Recommended Soprano Ukuleles for Beginner Home Practice
As we are now beginning a new ukulele class after-school for the 2026-2027 school year, we have here some recommendations on ukuleles to purchase for home practice. In class, we are using soprano ukuleles, which are both the smallest size of the ukulele and the most commonly used ukuleles in Hawaii. Just as we have…
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Choosing a Recorder for Home Practice
This year at Open School, we be offering an after-school music class in order for students to learn to play the recorder! In our program, the students are given recorders to use in the class and for supervised practice sessions and to keep when they move on from our recorder programs. However, it is up…
