Collection: Rhythm/Percussion Books

Books for teaching rhythm and classroom percussion, written for elementary and early years programs.

Exploring Rhythm Instruments covers the ground most general music teachers need first: what each instrument in a classroom set is, how it is held, and what it is good for in an ensemble.

The Orff Source by Denise Gagné is a repertoire collection for Orff programs, with arrangements scored for the bar instruments and unpitched percussion a classroom already owns.

The Joy Reeve series covers movement and integrated music teaching across three books, I Can Show It Cause I Know It, We Can Sing and Play Everyday, and You Can Walk, Talk, Orff.

Growing With Music, the Friendly Bears song book, comes with a CD and is aimed at early years, with a replacement CD stocked separately.

Teach Music Reading with Boomwhackers by Denise Gagné uses colour-coded tubes to get students reading before they can name notes. The Songbook for Junior Hand Bells does the same job for a handbell set.

Hand Drumming Getting Started by Milton Randall is stocked as an e-book, covering technique and facilitation for anyone running a drum circle rather than teaching a class.