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Every year, I like to teach my students about different cultures through music. Most of my students have never been out of our state, let alone a different country. I think it is important they experience other cultures and learn that we might have some differences, but have a lot of similarities as well. My students enjoy learning about different cultures through music and often have many questions. They especially enjoy my units on African and Latin American music.
My students love playing instruments and always want a hands-on experience with the world instruments we are learning. The few world instruments I have are used every year in my music classes. I let them explore the instruments by looking at them, playing them, and teaching them the correct way to play. I would use these world instruments in my project to take my world instrument lessons to another level. My students would be able to experience these instruments with hands-on activities instead of just looking at pictures and hearing descriptions.
With the djembe drums, I can teach students the three tones on the drum and we can perform different drum circle rhythm patterns. With the talking drum, they can squeeze the strings and experiment how the strings affect the pitch of the drum. Students will also get to use these instruments to play rhythm patterns while we listen to different songs from different cultures.
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Every year, I like to teach my students about different cultures through music. Most of my students have never been out of our state, let alone a different country. I think it is important they experience other cultures and learn that we might have some differences, but have a lot of similarities as well. My students enjoy learning about different cultures through music and often have many questions. They especially enjoy my units on African and Latin American music.
My students love playing instruments and always want a hands-on experience with the world instruments we are learning. The few world instruments I have are used every year in my music classes. I let them explore the instruments by looking at them, playing them, and teaching them the correct way to play. I would use these world instruments in my project to take my world instrument lessons to another level. My students would be able to experience these instruments with hands-on activities instead of just looking at pictures and hearing descriptions.
With the djembe drums, I can teach students the three tones on the drum and we can perform different drum circle rhythm patterns. With the talking drum, they can squeeze the strings and experiment how the strings affect the pitch of the drum. Students will also get to use these instruments to play rhythm patterns while we listen to different songs from different cultures.