looking for xylophone sheet music books

[jane_dmitrova]

Hi!
Is anybody using xylophone sheet music? Could you please recomend a good one? But for a parent with no musical education, please
We have a very good one and my son enjoys paying on it but it is just bum bum bum. I would like to start playing and singing songs (it is his another hobby, he likes to sing) but I do not know it myself so would be great if there is a simple guide with many songs.

[Tamsyn]

Can you please be a little more specific?  Almost any easy sheet music could be used for a xylophone.  Is it a toy xylophone?  Are the notes labeled?  Xylophones are one instrument name that has been widely mis-used for any mallet percussion instrument, and that wide-use makes it hard to know exactly what kind of instrument you have.  I'd love to help!

If the notes are labeled with letter note-names, something like this may be what you are looking for:  http://www.triparinc.com/xylomusic/
If you have a toy xylophone with colored notes, you can have a lot of fun with a cheap beginner book and a box of crayons to make your own.

[jane_dmitrova]

Tamsyn,

Thank you very much for the reply! This site is exactly what I was looking for!!!!
I checked, actually our xylophone's name is sound bars (please see the picture). There are no note names but I will label them myself. There are only 2 "Do" notes, one - big and one - small.

[Tamsyn]

Ooh!  You have the one by boomwhackers!  Your xylophone has the some colors as the boomwhacker tubes, so any music for boomwhackers will work for your instrument.  Also, http://musescore.org/ is a free open-source music notation program that has a feature to let you color the notes with the same color scheme.  I made a tutorial on how to use it here:  http://www.teaching-children-music.com/p/musescore-e-course.html

Colors are lots of fun!  Good luck.   

[Shifra]

Nancy Poffenberger has several http://www.funpublishing.com/?author=5 books with notes written as A-B-C as opposed to solfege or to notes on a staff:

NURSERY RHYMES WITH BELLS AND XYLOPHONE includes these songs: The Muffin Man; The Bear Went Over the Mountain; Ring a Ring of Roses; Eensie Weensie Spider; I'm a Little Teapot; Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush; Lazy Mary; Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be; This Old Man; Down by the Station; Ten in the Bed; A Tisket, A Tasket.

INSTANT FUN WITH BELLS AND XYLOPHONES includes these songs: Mary Had a Little Lamb; Jingle Bells; London Bridge; Farmer in the Dell; For He's a Jolly Good Fellow; Hickory Dickory Dock; Pop Goes the Weasel; Row, Row, Row Your Boat; Ten Little Indians; Baa Baa Black Sheep; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; Brother John; Hot Cross Buns

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