The xylophone is played with two-handed small hard or soft hammers. When played with a hammer, it can produce a woody, hard and cold, less reverberating, high-cold, crisp, and granular sound, which is very suitable for playing various forms of scales, arpeggios, glissando, vibrato, rolls, doubles. Tricky phrases for pitching, jumping in, and even jumping in from a distance.
The xylophone can be played at different speeds, and the intensity can be freely controlled. In the band, it is often used in high-cold, landscape, grotesque and other types of music passages.

It belongs to the category of bamboo and wood-body singing instruments, and each sound bar has a fixed pitch, so the xylophone is a percussion instrument that can be used for solo melody. When played strongly, the sound of the xylophone is hard and powerful, high and hard, and when played weakly, it is cold and quiet. The xylophone has a cold sound and is mostly used to play high-cold music to express a cold atmosphere.
For sustained notes, you must strike the same bar in rapid alternation with two hits for a continuous effect. In addition, the xylophone can also play beautiful glissando and moving vibrato, with rich expressiveness.