Elementary Mallet Exercises to Prep Orff Schulwerk

For most of my career I've jumped into teaching Orff Schulwerk pieces before building in my students the basic mallet skills necessary for success. Now more than ever I believe in teaching one skills at a time and then building on those skills through repetition. This video shows how I process with my students playing with good technique, keeping a steady beat, connecting text to rhythm, improvising, and playing multiple parts at the same time. I begin using these exercises in second grade, and I've found that they increase my student's skill and ability on mallet instruments substantially as they grow.
This lesson was taught by William C. Doublestein from Boone Meadow Elementary during the 2023-2024 school year. For hundreds more great lesson ideas and notifications of new posts added regularly, make sure you subscribe to BowTieMusic.net and / bowtiemusic .