Here at the Mobile Music School, we pride ourselves on delivering high quality music lessons for primary schools nationwide. Each year we deliver workshops, short programmes, and classroom music programmes to hundreds of schools, libraries, youth centres and language schools nationwide! Each week, our tutors are working hard across the country to provide high quality music education to students.
This week, we’ll be taking a deep dive into our Let’s Drum programme- what it is, what’s involved, and when a school might be interested. Read on to learn more about this fantastic primary school programme!
Music Lessons for Primary Schools: Let’s Drum
This percussion-based course explores the role of percussion in music from all corners of the world. Each class also investigates the importance of ‘the beat’. This course firstly develops each child’s rhythmical abilities, secondly, teaches students how to read and create music notation and thirdly, gives each student the opportunity to perform each week as part of a classroom percussion ensemble. These interactive and energy-filled classes culminate in an end of programme classroom performance of the performance pieces learned during the course. Our drumming classes are sure to be a hit with the students!
What can students expect to get from the course?
- Understanding of various different types of drums and the wider percussion family
- The ability to play on a range of different percussion instruments
- Understanding the concept of the beat and its importance
- Learning about, and performing, a range of rhythms suitable to each class group
- The ability to read and perform along with music notation
- Performance skills. Every child gets the opportunity to perform in a group performance. This performance will bring all of the material covered and skills developed during the course together
- Increased self confidence
- The ability to work as part as a team, with some students taking leadership roles within the group
How do these classes work in schools?
Our Let’s Drum short programme lasts for 6 weeks. Our tutor will come to your school weekly, and take the same classes each week. A full day consists of either 6x45mins classes, or 8×30 mins. Let’s Drum is suitable for all primary school age groups.
Our Let’s Drum classes must take place in a hall, or similar large space, due to equipment and noise levels.
Learn more
For more information on our Let’s Drum programme, contact us here.
