meloktaLearning goal
Shows the skills of finding notes, reading the staff, telling sounds apart by ear, ordering, playing with two mallets together, repeating a melody and rhythm in a mixed task.
Topic
Big day! Show what you’ve learned on the xylophone. No rush — stay calm.
Prior knowledge
Has completed the xylophone units.
Teacher note
The result screen shows a skills summary, so you can see which topic needs practice. ‘Practise mistakes’ replays only the steps with mistakes. It is not an official assessment tool.
Lesson steps
- Strike the D bar.
- Strike the bar of the note on the staff.
- First C, then the mystery sound. Which one is it?
- Put them in order from low to high.
- Strike the C and G bars at the same time with two mallets.
- Play this short melody from the staff.
- Listen and play it back.
- Play with the tick-tock: ta ta ta-a.