African Drumming for Schools'

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African Drumming for Schools.

• David Imevbore, Afriquetone Limited.
• E-mail david_at_afriquetone.co.uk
• Website www.afriquetone.co.uk.

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Afriquetone

• Provides and runs African drumming workshops
  and performances for schools, corporate events,
  inductions, open days festivals, etc.

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Objectives

• Introduce African drumming workshops as in ideal
  activity for schools.
• Highlight the benefits of African drumming
  workshops
• Identify how School Drumming workshops help to
  achieve objectives of the School Curriculum

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African Drumming

• The African drum. tonal variation
• "African languages operate on two levels
  rhythmic speech and tonal inflexion. Combined,
  these may be interpreted by differently- pitched
  drums or single log drums capable of producing
  more than one pitch, any ambiguities becoming
  clear by intelligent appreciation of the
  context." (Dearling, 1996)

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African Drumming (2)

• History.
• Different types.
• Cultural Significance and Uses.
  Djembe
• Drumming Circles. A healthy forum

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A drum Workshop.
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Benefits of African Drumming
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African drumming and the school curriculum

• Aims of Music education in Schools.
• Performing
• to develop music awareness and understanding
• to acquire and apply skills appropriate to the
  chosen instruments and
• to respond to the disciplines of the group
  activity.
• Inventing
• to develop musical initiative and inventiveness
  through experimenting with sound
• to develop musical discrimination, expression and
  sensitivity to sound and
• to develop the ability to organise and produce
  musical inventions using appropriate skills and
  techniques

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African drumming and the school
curriculum (2)

• Listening
• to develop critical and discriminatory abilities
  
• to gain insights into the means by which
  composers communicate through music and
• to develop knowledge and understanding of music
  of different styles and cultures.
• ( Extracted from a report made by HM Inspector of
  schools, 2000)

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Curriculum for Excellence

• Features of learning environments that encourage
  creativity
• Successful learners
• Engage in challenging tasks
• Encourage ambition.
• Learning motivates, engages and is enjoyable
• Confident Individuals
• Taking risks and learning from mistakes
• Developing interpersonal skills by learning with
  others.

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Curriculum for Excellence

• Responsible Citizens
• Experience of making an impact
• Recognise and celebrate diversity
• Effective contributors.
• Collaborative
• Interactive
• Variation in skills application. - Drum games,

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Bigger picture

• Cultural awareness
• Ability to fit into a globalized world
• Racism

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Childrens thoughts

• Dear David, I thought the drumming was great fun
  because I like drumming and I thought it might be
  my hobbie again.
• Joshua, primary 4, ferryhill primary school
• Dear David, thank you for the African drumming. I
  like it all but my favourite was the slap. I
  liked it because it made a loud bang
• Ronan, Room 15, ferryhill primary school.
• I liked the part at the end when we got to all
  bang on the drum because we just made a big noise
  with the drum. I really liked it, all the tunes
  were doing, but it hurt a bit. I would like to
  do it again.
• Milan, primary 4N, ferryhill primary school.

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• Types of School Workshops
• One off workshops full day or half day
  workshops
• Weekly workshops
• Week-long workshops School events, gala, summer
  programs etc

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• Feel the beat, enjoy the rhythm
• Questions!!!!