Virtual Learning Method
It is a training program that aims to form handbell ensembles in Colombia. This program has been supported pedagogically with new methodological strategies that emerged during the pandemic. These strategies gave rise to an important virtual resource unique in the world for learning handbells, which has been well-received not only in our country but in many other countries. We refer specifically to the video “BASIC HANDBELL AND HANDCHIME TECHNIQUES FOR BEGINNING ENSEMBLES.
The video was created by the San Francisco de Asís Music School with the support of the National Stimulus Program of the Ministry of Culture, call for 2021, and awarded in 2022 through the recognition of the Ministry of Culture’s National Stimulus Program.
The purpose of this audiovisual material is to provide a virtual video tool on the basic techniques of playing bronze handbells and handchimes. It is aimed at handbell ringers and handbell ensembles in Colombia and around the world, based on the description of handbell techniques by Maestro Carlos Enrique Rivera Aponte in his book “Serenata Infantil: Música Infantil del Folclor Puertorriqueño y Latinoamericano para Campanas de Mano,” Cantabile Series volume 1, 2013, page four (4). It is intended to be an audiovisual complement to the wonderful pedagogical and musical work presented by Maestro Rivera in his book.
