Musical Patterns

Today we watched a video on how to play a djembe. We practiced bass and open hits as well as muted and slaps. We drummed along with a video with different rhythmic patterns.

Next, we broke into groups and made up our own patterns. We wrote down our patterns so that we could remember and follow them. Our patterns needed to be 8 beats long and we needed to repeat it 4 times. This links to the work we've been doing in Math on Patterning.

Then, we performed our patterns for the class! We will be drumming tomorrow at the Esker Foundation.