World Percussion Slides

World Percussion Drums for Schools

LESSON ONE Music of the World

Continents of the World

What do you know about these continents?

What’s in the box?

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Where do you think these instruments have come from?

Which ones sound good played together?

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What materials are they made from?

Which ones play a tune and which ones can only play rhythms?

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How do you make a sound with them?

What’s in the Box? Triangle

Bongos Guiro

Agogo Bells

QUESTION Bento Shaker

Maracas Claves

M’bira

Metallophone Tambourine

Can you find these instruments and play them?

Instruments of the world

Triangle

Metallophone

Tambourine Bento Shaker

Maracas

Guiro

Bongos

M’bira

Claves Agogo Bells

Africa

African Instruments Bongos

M’BIRA

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A pair of small drums from West Africa.

The larger drum makes a lower pitch, and the smaller drum makes a higher pitch. Made from wood and animal skin.

A thumb piano from Zimbabwe.

Each bar can be plucked or twanged to make a different pitch. Made from coconut shell, wood and metal.

African Instruments CLAVES

AGOGO BELLS

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Two short round sticks from West Africa, played by tapping them together. Made from wood.

A pair of bells from West Africa.

The larger bell makes a lower pitch, and the smaller bell makes a higher pitch. Made from metal.

ASIA

ASIAn Instruments METALLoPHONE

BENTO SHAKER

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A tuned percussion instrument from Indonesia with 8 bars. Each bar can be hit to sound a different pitch, making a melody. Made from metal and wood.

A shaker from Indonesia, which plays rhythm. Made from bento husks, cord and wood or bamboo.

South America

South AmericaN Instruments Guiro

Maracas

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An instrument from Puerto Rico. Played by scraping a stick along the ridges to play rhythms. Made from bamboo.

A pair of shakers found in many South American countries. Can only play rhythm. Made from coconuts or gourds, seeds, and wood.

EUROPE

European Instruments Tambourine

Triangle

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An instrument from Spain which can be shaken or tapped to play rhythm. Made from wood, metal and animal skin.

An instrument used in European classical music. Played by tapping with a metal stick. Made from metal, suspended by cord from a wooden stand.

What’s in the Box?

QUESTION

Triangle

Bongos

Bento Shaker Guiro

Maracas Claves M’bira

Agogo Bells

Metallophone

Can you name these instruments?

LESSON TWO Music of Africa

Music of Africa

QUESTION Ladysmith Black Mambazo perform Isicathamiya music

How does the music make you feel?

Africa QUESTION Do you think everyone on the continent of Africa listens to the same type of music?

Music of West Africa

West African Instruments

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Bongo Drums

West African Instruments

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Claves

West African Instruments

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Agogo Bells

West African Music 01.

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West African traditional music is based on ‘call and response’

QUESTION One person sings or plays something, and another person answers it.

Can you create your own call and response?

Music of South Africa

QUESTION Hope Masike and her band play Afro-Jazz

How does the music make you feel?

South African Instrument M’bira

QUESTION How is this instrument different from others?

LESSON Three Music of Asia

Music of Asia

QUESTION An Indonesian gamelan performance.

Indonesia is a country within Asia.

How does the music make you feel?

Indonesian Instrument

Metallophone

QUESTION S

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Does this instrument play rhythm or melody?

Where are the highest notes?

What about the lowest notes?

There are 8 notes, can you sing the numbers as you play from low to high?

Can you sing the numbers backwards from high to low?

Indonesian Music 01.

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Like the music of West Africa, Indonesian Gamelan music uses ‘call and response’ too!

You will now have the chance to create your own call and response in a pair. Make sure you write down the numbers of the notes so you can remember it later!

QUESTION S What is call and response?

How will call and response sound different on a metallophone?

Indonesian Instrument Bento Shaker

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Indonesian Dance

QUESTION

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Dance is an important part of Indonesian culture Let’s create our own Indonesian Dance Music!

What was good about our performance?

What could we improve next time?

Lesson Four Music of South America

Music of South America

Music of South America QUESTION S

Bongos Guiro

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Maracas

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Agogo Bells

Claves

Which of these instruments did we learn to play last lesson?

Where did they come from?

Can anyone show us how to play these instruments correctly?

QUESTION Why might the music of South America include instruments from Africa?

South American Instruments Maracas

Guiro

South American Instruments AGogo & Bongos

Claves

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Maracas & Guiro

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QUESTION Can you play these samba rhythms?

South American Instruments 01.

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Point at different instruments at different times to make them play, and hold your palm up as a stop sign to make them stop.

You can have lots of instruments playing at the same time, or just one or two.

Fingers on lips for quiet, arms open wide for loud!

QUESTION What was good about our performance?

What could we improve next time?

Lesson Five Music of Europe

Music of EUROPE QUESTION

A Flamenco performance from Spain

What instrument is the dancer playing?

Music of Europe QUESTION S How many sounds can you make on the tambourine?

A tambourine playing classical music

How many sounds did the tambourine make in the video?

European Instruments Tambourine

Triangle

Ensemble Performance Aogo Bongos

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Triangle Claves

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Tambourine Maracas Bento Guiro

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QUESTION Can you play these rhythms?

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Can you play this tune?

Ensemble Performance Aogo Bongos

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Triangle Claves

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Tambourine Maracas Bento Guiro

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MetalLophone

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Ensemble Performance Aogo Bongos

Triangle Claves

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Tambourine Maracas Bento Guiro

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MetalLophone

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QUESTION What was good about our performance?

What could we improve next time?

Lesson SIx Recap

What’s in the Box? Triangle

Bongos Guiro

Agogo Bells

QUESTION Bento Shaker Can you name these instruments?

Maracas Claves

M’bira

Metallophone Tambourine

Can you show us how to play them?

Thanks for playing

Instruments of the world

Triangle

Metallophone

Tambourine Bento Shaker

Maracas

QUESTION Where do these instruments come from?

Guiro

Bongos

M’bira

Claves Agogo Bells

Music with Meaning

QUESTION

Eleanor Alberga’s Nightscape

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Music can be used to tell stories, express emotions, and describe things

What do you think this music is about?

Musical Soundscapes 01.

A soundscape is a piece of music that describes a place

QUESTION S What sounds would we hear in the rainforest?

Are there sounds you could make with your voice or body too?

What instruments do we have that could make similar sounds?

QUESTION Which soundscape did each group create? How did you know?

Instruments of the world

Triangle

Metallophone

Tambourine Bento Shaker

Maracas

Guiro

Bongos

M’bira

Claves Agogo Bells

Sticker sheet

PREFACE 01.

When we say an instrument “comes from” a particular place, we should remember that many musical instruments evolved independently in different countries.

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For example wood blocks, scrapers and shakers using seeds are found all over the world, and vary depending on local natural resources.