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tabdo! Playing with Melodies Media App single licence

An App-Supported Approach to Learning Music

  • School Type: Primary School, Middle School
  • Components: Method, Code
  • Details: 140 pages
  • ISBN: 978-3-86227-515-1
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tabDo! - Playing with Melodies (available as e-book in the HELBLING Media App) is an app-supported learning method designed to aid in developing and improving tonal awareness, beginning at a pre-school age. By playing with melodies in a variety of ways, children build a solid understanding of music and train basic musical skills.

The following task formats are recommended for practicing and developing a more solid sense of sound and tonality:

  • listening and playing motifs and song melodies
  • imitating, varying, and inventing melodies
  • short question-and-answer games for playing in pairs
  • improvising songs
  • discovering accompanying voices for the Orff instruments
  • composing music on texts
  • understanding scales with the help oft he solmization
  • learning to read music notation


This manual is a methodological companion meant for children from 6 to 14 years of age.

It contains, among other things:

  • an extensive explanation of the didactic principles
  • operating instructions for the tabDo! app
  • methodological tips and notes about how to use the app with songs in the classroom
  • suggestions for classroom teaching, in various task formats at different levels

Playing is done on tablets or smartphones, with or without headphones, alone, in pairs, or in groups.


Single licence

The HELBLING Media App single licence (permanent licence) entitles one person to use the product on one or more devices. The use of the product is possible, as long as it is part of the publisher’s offer.

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Learn how to use this innovative method together with the app tabDo! - the music-learning app for the classroom.

With tabDo! students can work alone or with a partner. In addition, using the app with headphones means that tabDo! is a perfectly designed instrument for practicing and learning music in classroom situations.

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