Music: Specific Instruments

Searchable sound files and videos that demonstrate what instruments sound like and how they are played.

The flute is a wind instrument often used in Indigenous cultures on Turtle Island in both ceremonial and social songs. This lesson invites a local Elder, Knowledge Keeper, or flute player to the classroom to discuss the importance of the flute in local Indigenous cultural groups

Welcome! Here are resources to help you learn to play the flute or make a flute, plus know more about the flute—all from author/musician/flutemaker Mark Shepard. There’s even a printable flute fingering chart.

Free instructional videos, lessons, and exercises for learning to play the bassoon

Useful tips for correctly playing the oboe from an oboe teacher

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In this 30 minute Drum Lesson you will learn all 40 Rudiments of playing a snare drum. The Rudiments are a list of exercises which are the foundation of drumming.

Most of the 19 videos in this playlist that are under a minute long. You'll learn techniques for playing the handbells and see handbells in action in a group of players.

This playlist of 16 videos teaches students techniques for playing handbells.

In this Drum Lesson you will learn the basics of drum notation. I will keep this easy and not go into too much detail here, since this isn't about being able to sight read. This is about being able to see a notation, decipher it and then play it.

Mr. Matthews explains and demonstrates the glockenspiel for aspiring percussionists.

Mr Matthews explains the workings of a snare drum!

This lesson plan teaches the concepts of patterns and rhythms through Inuit drumming and drum dancing techniques, and provides cultural context to educational content.

A playlist of lessons for keyboard percussion instruments like the glockenspiel and the xylophone for students.

Considered to be the heartbeat of Mother Earth, the drum plays an important role in the lives of Indigenous Peoples on Turtle Island.

In this playlist, you'll learn all the major scales and how to play them on your percussive keyboard instrument.

In this playlist, you'll find 16 short videos that teach you many different techniques for playing the snare drum

In this video, Daan Cornelissen walks us through the fundamental rudiments of percussion.

Teaching percussion is required of every band director and must include comprehensive instruction on both pitched and non-pitched instruments. This clinic covers the nuts and bolts of teaching the beginning percussionist and offers tips and tricks especially useful to educators less familiar with percussion pedagogy.

Here is a simple xylophone exercise that helps to develop your peripheral vision and sensitivity as to where the notes are on the instrument.