Music: World Music: Drums, Sitar, and Pan Flutes
Exploring instruments and sounds from around the world
Music: World Music: Drums, Sitar, and Pan Flutes
Exploring instruments and sounds from around the world
Music - Grade 2-3
- 1
A drum makes sound when its surface is tapped or struck. What part of the drum usually vibrates to make the sound?
Think about the top part of a drum that a musician hits.
The drumhead vibrates to make the sound. When you tap or strike it, the stretched surface moves back and forth quickly. - 2
The sitar is a string instrument from India. How does a musician usually make sound on a sitar?
A musician usually plucks the strings of a sitar. The strings vibrate and create the sound. - 3
Pan flutes are made from several tubes of different lengths. A musician blows across the top of the tubes. What makes one tube sound higher or lower than another tube?
Compare a short tube and a long tube.
The length of the tube changes the pitch. Shorter tubes usually make higher sounds, and longer tubes usually make lower sounds. - 4
Circle the instrument that is usually played by striking it: drum, sitar, pan flute.
The drum is usually played by striking it. A musician may use hands or sticks to hit the drumhead. - 5
Circle the instrument that is usually played by blowing air: drum, sitar, pan flute.
The pan flute is usually played by blowing air across the tops of its tubes. The moving air helps create the sound. - 6
Circle the instrument that has strings: drum, sitar, pan flute.
Look for the instrument that is most like a guitar.
The sitar has strings. The strings are plucked to make musical sounds. - 7
A class hears a steady boom, boom, boom that helps everyone clap together. Which instrument is most likely making this steady beat, and why?
The beat is the part of music that helps people move or clap together.
A drum is most likely making the steady beat. Drums are often used to keep rhythm in music. - 8
Look at these instrument groups: percussion, string, and wind. Match each instrument to its group: drum, sitar, pan flute.
The drum belongs in the percussion group because it is struck. The sitar belongs in the string group because it has strings. The pan flute belongs in the wind group because it is played with moving air. - 9
A musician plays music at a celebration. The drum keeps the rhythm, the sitar plays a melody, and the pan flute plays soft notes. What does rhythm mean in music?
Rhythm can help people clap, dance, or march together.
Rhythm is the pattern of sounds and silences in music. It often helps people feel the beat. - 10
Write one way that drums, sitar, and pan flutes are different from each other.
One way they are different is how they are played. Drums are struck, sitars are plucked, and pan flutes are played by blowing air.