{"id":46,"date":"2026-10-07T19:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/?p=46"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:07:48","slug":"back-to-school-instrumental-tuned-percussion-guitar-keyboard-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/2026\/10\/07\/back-to-school-instrumental-tuned-percussion-guitar-keyboard-drums\/","title":{"rendered":"Back To School Instrumental: tuned percussion, guitar, keyboard &amp; drums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have learned three different parts for the instrumental section of the song &#8216;I&#8217;ve Got the Back To School Blues&#8217; and we firstly learned to play each part on tuned percussion &#8211; xylophones and glockenspiels.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185308\/instrumental-part-1-300x147.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185308\/instrumental-part-1-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185308\/instrumental-part-1-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185308\/instrumental-part-1.png 909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185310\/instrumental-part-2-300x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185310\/instrumental-part-2-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185310\/instrumental-part-2-768x358.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185310\/instrumental-part-2.png 914w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185312\/instrumental-part-3-300x141.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185312\/instrumental-part-3-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185312\/instrumental-part-3-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185312\/instrumental-part-3.png 911w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We could then choose which part we preferred to play together and many of us chose to play the most tricky part which was part three.\u00a0 We then had the chance to use what we had learned and transfer it to other instruments.<\/p>\n<p>In the first clip some of the class are playing their part on xylophones or glockenspiels.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-46-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185723\/Xylo-glockenspiels.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185723\/Xylo-glockenspiels.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185723\/Xylo-glockenspiels.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the next clip you will see three of the class playing their parts on guitar.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-46-2\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185902\/Guitar.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185902\/Guitar.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07185902\/Guitar.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the next clip, another three pupils transferred their parts onto keyboards.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-46-3\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07190023\/Keyboards.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07190023\/Keyboards.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07190023\/Keyboards.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And in our last clip you will see all three instrument groups playing their parts plus two further pupils keeping a steady beat on the drum kit at the back of our music room.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-46-4\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07190237\/All-kit.mp4?_=4\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07190237\/All-kit.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary6b2627\/uploads\/sites\/3707\/2026\/10\/07190237\/All-kit.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>What a talented bunch of musicians we have in P6B!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have learned three different parts for the instrumental section of the song &#8216;I&#8217;ve Got the Back To School Blues&#8217; and we firstly learned to play each part on tuned percussion &#8211; xylophones and glockenspiels. We could then choose which part we preferred to play together and many of us chose to play the most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/2026\/10\/07\/back-to-school-instrumental-tuned-percussion-guitar-keyboard-drums\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back To School Instrumental: tuned percussion, guitar, keyboard &amp; drums<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary6b2627\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}