Xylophone Teaching Plan

Goals:

 Learn to read music score

 Able to relate pitches to xylophone notes
 Able to work in a team and listen to each other
 Perform in a polyphonic setting

Week 1

Learn the basics of music theory

Watch xylophone clips

Learn Solfège

Week 2

Review the Basics

Learn leaping in Solfège

Week 3

Sightreading exercise

Game with sightreading

Week 4

Practice play together without distracted by others

Week 5

Learn rhythm and apply into xylophone

Week 6

Learn Music theory – Major chord and minor chord

Learn to play in 2 parts - homophonic

Week 7

Continue Learn Music theory – Major chord and minor chord

Learn to play in 2 parts - homophonic

Week 8

Apply different rhythm into the harmony

Xylophone Teaching Plan

Week 9

Learn heterphonic harmonic part

Week 10

Put harmony and melody together into song A

Week 11

Continue putting harmony and melody together into song 1

Week 12

Introduce new song

Week 13

Learn a new song

Sightreading exercise

Week 14

Staging Practice, listen to different parts

Week 15

Introduce 3 parts singing into song 2

Week 16

Drill in Rhythm

Week 17

Put melody and 2 harmonic parts together and put rhythm pattern into song 2

Week 18

Continue Put melody and 2 harmonic parts together and put rhythm pattern into song 2

Week 19

Practice for performance

Week 20

Final practice for performance