The Kingdom of Benin
This half-term our focus is Music.
We have been learning:
- To know how to evaluate pieces of music using the interrelated dimensions of music.
- To listen to music from, and inspired by, Africa.
- To know the correct posture and technique for playing a Djembe drum.
- To know how to compose a rhythm based on Djembe music.
- To know how to use basic musical notation to read and compose a rhythm.
Our African Drumming workshop.
We learned:
- Where djembe drums come from and what they are made from.
- The importance of music, singing and dancing in West Africa culture.
- How to play a bass tone and open tone on the djembe drum.
- How to play a call and response.
- How to reply to the lead drummer.
- How to sing an African chant and to follow the beat with a dance.
- How to build texture into a performance.