Beat it! African Dances is a brilliant resource for both general and more specialised music teachers working with beginner percussion groups. It presents sixteen contrasting workshops based on four African dances providing invaluable material built on the National Curriculum requirements in music for year 4 and up. Inspired by the thrilling traditional music of Africa this book demonstrates how to develop a range of rhythmic ideas using everyday classroom percussion and the body. The group's work will culminate in performances of the four dances (with or without the enhanced CD backings provided) ideal for school concerts or assemblies.

Le World Beat Rythmes série explore les styles rythmiques de différentes régions du monde. Les compositions hybrides et les rythmes dans ce livre et le CD sont influencés par le populaire Acom, Adoua, et des rythmes de la République centrafricaine. Tous les niveaux. # À L'INTERIEUR: Photographies de chaque instrument de percussion # Instruction sur les techniques utilisées pour jouer chaque instrument # scores Percussion # indices Rhythm joué à des tempos différents # feuilles de calcul # pauses Percussion Graphique # # Exemples audio de chaque rythme en évidence sur leurs instruments respectifs Le CD contient démonstration et de jeu le long des voies qui peuvent être utilisés lors de l'apprentissage et la pratique des exemples. Jouer avec un ensemble de percussions de 30 musiciens avec batterie et basse. Le World Beat Rythmes série peut être utilisé par studenst qui veulent eux-mêmes enseignent, ou par les professeurs de musique pour les cours particuliers ou collectifs. ... un grand atout pour tous les éducateurs de la musique et les administrateurs de bande pour obtenir leurs orchestres, ensembles de bande, et les étudiants de tous âges rainurage ensemble. / Batterie / 62 pages / Partition Cd

Description Inspire your students to make some noise with Teach and Play African Drums ! The six pieces in this book represent an exciting and varied selection of music from across the African continent, from traditional djembe drumming and gumboot dancing to a Senegalese pop song. Each piece is broken down into clear and simple steps that show you how to build up the music gradually with your class. Combined with the accompanying DVD ? which contains over 60 short clips of the author and a group of KS3 students demonstrating all of the instruments and patterns to each piece ? teaching and learning world music has never been so easy or enjoyable. The six pieces are supplemented with valuable background information about the music and culture, cross-curricular projects, composing ideas, advice on assessment and guidance on teaching whole-class world-music ensembles. The material has been designed primarily for use with KS2 and KS3 classes, but the addition of higher-ability parts for each piece means the book can be tailored easily to KS4 as well. It is not necessary to own authentic instruments to get the most out of this book as classroom alternatives are suggested and demonstrated. ?This series has been written by a genuine expert who has thorough knowledge of his subject and shares this with the reader in a lively, enthusiastic and passionate way. I have never found any books before that are so clear in explaining the fundamentals of these world-music genres, and doing so in a format based around practical, relevant and achievable tasks is even more remarkable. I can see these books becoming one of those series that every music teacher will have either read or heard about in years to come.? Matt Allen, Head of Music, Chessington Community College, Kingston

Christian Bourdon's new book features traditional and modern African rhythms for Conga, Tumba and Djembe. The focus is on special playing techniques (floating hand, 'bascules') with exercises for one and two players plus 3 solo pieces. / Conga - Tumba - Djembé

Drummer and multi-percussionist Dietrich Wohrlin studied at the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles and the Hanns Eisler Music Academy Berlin known today as 'JIB' (Jazz Institute Berlin). Lengthy study trips through west Africaand Latin America further enhanced his musical and cultural knowledge. Dietrich has been teaching at the JIB since 1997 and at the Academy for Music and Theatre in Rostock since 1998. His principle fields are African Latin andBrazilian drums/percussion and body percussion. He also holds seminars in Methods/Didactics literature study and teaching practice. He is internationally in demand as a teacher lecturer workshop leader author composer studio musician drummer and percussionist.

Ein Lernprogramm Für Handtrommeln-Conga and Djembe have become well-known instruments. More and more people use percussions to find acces to new and different areas of life. J?rgen Hentze learned the percussions from numerous travels to Africa by native musicians and put his experiences into this school. After a short introduction about the instruments (origin construction) follows a chapter about the handling of the instruments. Numerous pictures help to visualise the instructions. After that the general principles of the practices is described. The theoretic part closes with a conclusion of the notation. In the following exercises straight and odd rythms are practised. The third part of thisissue eventually presents 10 different styles of dances split in base and solo tunes. At the same time new forms are considered which interestingly combine tradition and modern jazz. There is play-along CD put in this edition which offers multiple ways of practicing. Due to the stereo recording individual tunes can be tuned on and off solo and base tunes can be heard seperately and the arrangements can be played in various combination.

This prominent Puerto Rican percussion player and groove master will teach you how to play rhythms from all over the world!Manolo's highly anticipated DVD breaks down drumming from Brazil; the Caribbean and South America; and Europe Asia and Africa. Includes stunning performances of: Badrekali Tarang Bara Suayo Berimba Du Angola Bronx Taranta Gypsy Manolo.

Playing in 6/8 Time- Let???s face it: playing djembe as it???s traditionally played can be really hard on your hands. The Gentle Djembe for Beginners series is the only set of DVDs for beginning hand drummers - especially adultbeginners - who want to experience the joys of playing djembe while going easy on their hands. It was created by Alan Dworsky the best-selling author of? How to Play Djembe and two-time winner of DRUM Magazine???s readers??? poll for ' Best Percussion Method Book .' Each of the step-by-step lessons on Volume 3 starts like a private lesson and ends with Alan???s entire class playing the rhythm so you also get a sense of what it???s like to play in a group. West African rhythms--including kpegisuand dunumba???are adapted to a Gentle Djembe style so that you can play safely and comfortably no matter what your age. Each lesson also has a matching play-along track and the DVD contains a PDF file with charts of all thepatterns so the the video is a complete learning tool. Shot in gorgeous wide-screen format and endorsed by Arthur Hull as 'the most non-intimidating way for beginning beginners to get started.' In Volume 3 you???ll enter the polyrhythmic world of 6/8 time while still going easy on your hands. You???ll learn patterns adapted from powerful West African rhythms - including kpegisu and dunumba -as well as one of the most popular 6/8 bell patterns. Like the first two Gentle Djembe videos Volume 3 provides clear step-by-step instruction with the feel of private lessons. And in addition to separate play-along tracks this DVD includes a PDF file with charts of all the patterns.