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Fun Halloween Activity for the Outdoor Music Classroom
Here is a fun Halloween music activity that you can do with your class using your outdoor musical instruments that will teach rhythm while scaring the pants off them! Sounds thrilling? Take a look!
It is a familiar game, similar to ‘What’s The Time Mr Wolf’, but with musical instruments, uses listening skills and has a Halloween twist!
Their task — or the "trick" — is to match the rhythm with the character shown on the cards.
A little preparation is required. Before playing the game you need to print the rhythm cards from the Halloween rhythm sheet below. Mount the sheet on card and cut it into five, for the different characters.
Spend a little time teaching, demonstrating and practicing each character’s rhythm, so that the children can begin to recognise which character is which.
How to Play: Place the cards into a bag or hat and place it near the outdoor musical instruments. One child is chosen to be the ‘witch’ and sits a little way from the musical instruments. The...
Outdoor Musical Improvisation (aka Noodling)
What is musical improvisation?
1) To invent, compose, or perform with little or no preparation. 2) To play (music) or sing extemporaneously, especially by inventing variations on a melody or creating new melodies.
Simply put, it is music made in the moment - the experience begins and ends in real time.
Learning to play a musical instrument is a wonderful, enriching thing to do. Additionally, there have been many articles and studies written on the benefits of learning to play a musical instrument from a young age. However sometimes the training can teach consistency, but not necessarily creativity in the individual. Improvisation is all about the creativity of the performer, and developing this creativity will go on to have many benefits in the rest of their music making. Essentially, good improvisational skills will promote a confidence in all performances.
At Percussion Play we passionately advocate improvisation. Our instruments are specifically designed to encourage...
Inspired by Tradition – Harmony Outdoor Xylophone
Along with rice, another crop harvested in Vietnam is bamboo. Bamboo has long been used as an assembly material in Asia because of its versatility and it has numerous uses. After it is split, bamboo can be used for fences, baskets, and mats. The stems can make simple furniture, hunting implements, traps and musical instruments.
Two of the most popular traditional folk instruments in Vietnam are made from bamboo—the bamboo flute and the bamboo ‘hanging’ xylophone. The flute is found in most regions, while the xylophone hails from the mountainous region and is called a T’Rung. The T’Rung is an idiophone, percussive instrument made from lengths of bamboo in differing sizes. Traditionally, the T’rung would be suspended at the top from a tree and bound to the players belly at the bottom. It would be played with two double sticks which perfectly cover the range of one octave. After playing it would be rolled up and carried away on the players back.
The design of Percussion Play’s...
Sound Playgrounds: Music Solutions for Outdoor Areas
The good news is that it doesn't have to be complicated or too expensive to add music to your outdoor space. This article gives seven ways to easily add music or provide musical solutions for your outdoor area.
For Darker Areas or Where Space is Limited Our Mirror Chimes will reflect light, the surrounding environment as well as the players for an added fun element, visual stimulation and promote self-awareness. What a ‘bright’ idea! Great for a courtyard garden or sensory area. Arranged in the pentatonic c-major scale (C3-C5) their universal mounting brackets allow them to be fixed to virtually any surface.
For an Easy Installation with a BIG Sound Integrate drumming and music-making to the great outdoors with our Trio of Conga Drums. Conga Drums are a pair of single headed drums mounted onto a single stainless steel post to be installed directly into the ground – that’s six drums to play but only three holes to dig!
Drumming has many...
Making Music: A Peek Inside Percussion Play Workshop
Take a peek inside our workshop, meet the team and see our experts in action.
Designing outdoor musical instruments takes planning, knowledge and imagination, but what's even more impressive is the actual making - maybe a much more industrial yet craftsman-like process than you'd imagine. All Percussion Play instruments are designed and produced by dedicated and highly skilled craftsmen in the beautiful county of Hampshire right here in the heart of the United Kingdom. Delivering musical instruments to the world which are fun and exciting but sound amazing too. Because like you, we love music.
We are focused team and thrive on encouraging individuals to flourish in their music making. It all starts with having a go, and to have a go we need access to good musical instruments in our communities. We’ve designed a whole host of exciting user-friendly instruments that kids and adults can use to explore the joy of composing and music making in our open spaces; playgrounds, forests and...