African Drumming for Schools.

David Imevbore, Afriquetone Limited.

E-mail – david@afriquetone.co.uk

Website – www.afriquetone.co.uk.

Afriquetone

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

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

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)

African Drumming (2)

• History.• Different types.• Cultural Significance and Uses. Djembe

• Drumming Circles. – A healthy forum

A drum Workshop.

Benefits of African Drumming

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

African drumming and

schools(contd)

• 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)

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.

Curriculum for Excellence

• Responsible Citizens• Experience of making an impact• Recognise and celebrate diversity

• Effective contributors.• Collaborative• Interactive• Variation in skills application. - Drum games,

Bigger picture

• Cultural awareness• Ability to fit into a globalized world

• Racism

Children’s thought’s• 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 we’re doing, but it hurt a bit. I would like to do it again.

Milan, primary 4N, ferryhill primary school.

Types of School Workshops

One off workshops – taster sessions,full or half day workshops

Weekly workshops –

Week-long workshops – School events, gala, summer programs, culture weeks etc

Talks and Presentations on – Race, The African Continent.

Feel the beat, enjoy the rhythm