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Upcoming training and workshops:

AGM: Ocarina Workshop
Wed 21 March at West Park Centre
David and Christa Liggins show us fun and easy musical activities we can share using ocarinas.

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Summer Workshop: TBA
Date TBA, Summer Term at West Park Centre
Shabang: "The Whole Shabang"
Energetic musical ideas for working with children and young adults with learning difficulties and PMLD.

 
Recent Training:

Soundbeam 5
Wed. 9 Nov. 2011 at West Park Centre, Leeds
Pamela Ayling led a session on using the newest Soundbeam, Soundbeam 5, to interact and make music with individuals and groups.  Pam gave us a basic tour of the controls and learned how to select sounds we wanted to use.  The she set up some songs for us and we had a play & sing-along at the end, modelling how we might use this with our own classes.


In the second half we looked at an African drumming project from John Jamieson school: pupils made their own drums, stretching the head material very tight and painting meaningful symbols on the bodies.  Then we all joined up for a drumming workshop and took turns playing a huge balafon xylophone.  We learned about basic djembe-playing techniques and  structuring and introducing simple musical ideas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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