How to Play the Xylophone - Fingering Chart & Flashcards
Mallet Flashcards (Xylophone, etc.)One set of Mallet Flashcards 27 cards - Includes every chromatic note from Low F to High G, with Staff Notation, Fingerings, and Note Names. Cards are 2-3/4" square, 110 lb cardstock, with a 1" book ring. Shipping is an additional $2.65 for First Class shipping in the U.S. and will be added at checkout. Are you a band director or percussion instructor? Click HERE for a great article on organizing your percussion room from Band Directors Talk Shop.
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Download the StepWise Mallet Fingering Chart
for Xylophone, Marimba, and Vibraphone (Keyboard Percussion)
Percussion students often struggle with the instruments that require pitch recognition. It is tough enough to learn to play in the key of C, but then when you throw in accidentals and upper and lower ranges many students give up and try to stick with only non-pitched percussion instruments.
What young drummers need is a system for quizzing themselves on note names and tone bar placement. This fingering chart, along with the flashcards, will help both beginning and more advanced players learn, memorize, and master every note, note name, and tone bar on the mallet percussion instruments.
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A reproducible set of band instrument flashcards is also available for music educators or private teachers of multiple instruments. Using these flashcards with your entire band is one way to allow percussionists to feel more integrated as they do the exact same thing that all the wind players are doing at the same time. Imagine that!