Simple Ideas for Tuned Percussion in the Classroom Age 7+. Percussion Players Series. 64 pages, size: 210 x 220. The National Curriculum requires that children have experience playing tuned percussion instruments (xylophones, glockenspiels, chime bars etc). This book and CD pack is designed for the generalist teacher at Key Stage 2 who may have limited resources and little confidence. No music reading is required in this pack which includes play-along ideas for well-known songs, ways to involve one instrument or several, photocopiable parts for pupils to play, ideas for improvising and composing and recordings of all the ideas, step-by-step to final performance.