FabDrumming Workshops

Give your children an exciting musical experience packed with rhythm, fun, creativity and self-expression. FabDrumming offers African Drumming, African Dancing, Junk Percussion, Body Percussion and South African Gumboot Dancing workshops. A newly developed workshop is a workshop where the pupils recreate ancient Mayan Music.

No experience is required and suitable for all ages and abilities.

South West England

FabDrumming offers African Drumming, African Dancing, Junk Percussion, Body Percussion, South African Gumboot Dancing and Mayan Music workshops.

African Drumming

FabDrumming workshops are funky, inclusive, musical fun and suitable for all ages and abilities, absolutely no experience is necessary. Every pupil gets his or her own drum to play.

My workshops for children are musical journeys. The little ones discover different sounds and learn basic music skills. I can add storytelling, singing and dancing to the workshop. As they get older, I go a step further, they learn djembe drumming techniques and traditional African rhythms. When these rhythmic patterns are combined the result is a fantastic piece of music.

An African Drumming workshop is a great way to celebrate Black History Month or for a topic about Africa.

Junk Percussion

A Junk Percussion Workshop makes the children see the objects around them in a new light and find out that rhythm is everywhere!

Junk percussion isn’t something the group STOMP invented. In many cultures people used to made drums and instruments from objects they found around them like shells, bones, wood or stones and some of them still do.

A Junk Percussion workshop is a great and fun way to illustrate the 3-R’s. To help make the children more ECO conscious and have them question whether an item is ‘rubbish’ or ‘reusable’.

And above all, they all love making a racket, which will turn into a groovy piece of music.

Body Percussion

You don’t need expensive instruments to make music. You can use your own body as an instrument! Children love rhythm and movement, during a Body Percussion session, they explore the different sounds they can make using their own body. They learn to stamp, tap and slap, different rhythms. When combining the different rhythms, teamwork is important to make it sound good. I also encourage the children to create their own rhythms.

African Dance & South African Gumboot Dancing

Dance is an important part of African culture. The children learn a dance routine, a song and the role dance plays in everyday African life. I can bring African costumes and will give them information about the dance and region the dance comes from.

Singing and dancing is also good exercise, improving balance, control and coordination. It can reduce stress and improve physical fitness.

Gumboot Dancing originated in South African gold mines. They slapped their boots to communicate, outside of the mines this became a dance. It is a combination of body percussion, drumming and dancing and children love it!

Mayan Music

This workshop is a great way to enrich the National Curriculum topic ‘The Maya’.

In this workshop the children step into the shoes of Mayan Musicians. Playing different instruments like (slit)drums, shakers and flutes the children recreate the music of the Ancient Maya. The Maya gathered materials for their instruments from the world around them and used the sounds of nature as inspiration for their music. They didn’t write anything down and they didn’t have anything to record their music. But by studying Mayan rituals that still linger, ethnomusicologists are confident that music played an important role in Mayan culture.

A workshop for Year 6 starts with recordings and videos of Maya music. They create their own glyphs and use their glyphs to map a piece of music.

They play the composition playing different sounds and rhythms on instruments like drums, slit-drums, shakers, and flutes.

FabDrumming will bring the music recordings, videos and all the instruments.

Up to 40 pupils.

Group sizes and timings are flexible and depend on the requirements of the school.

FabDrumming will bring all the drums and instruments. For the gumboot dancing workshops the pupils have to bring their own (clean) wellies.

There are no copywrite restrictions on photography, filming or audio.

Half day: £300

Full day: £415

+ travel costs

Other durations are also possible.

No specific clothing is required.

For the gumboot dancing workshops the pupils have to bring their own (clean) wellies.

Yes, but we always ask for a teacher or member of the school teaching team to be present as well.

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The workshops can be adapted for children with disabilities or special educational needs.

Go to our website www.fabdrumming.co.uk or contact us on info@fabdrumming.co.uk

01823 452226 / 078 10005456