Big Drum Adventure – online
The Big Drum Adventure is a gateway music programme takes a whole class on a musical journey with drums, percussion and voice. Due to the restrictions of the current pandemic, the project has now gone to online, remote delivery.
The Big Drum Adventure introduces pupils to the exciting world of music making, building rhythm, playing and performance skills to give each pupil the confidence to progress to the next level. The project takes inspiration from world music and the diversity of drumming from many cultures including Brazil, Africa and the UK. The Big Drum Adventure has been successfully run by Mat Clements in hundreds of Scottish classrooms since 2006, usually funded by the Youth Music Initiative, but also independently booked by head teachers.
Remote delivery
With our current Covid reality, there is arguably an even greater need for high quality, remotely delivered music that can nurture every pupil’s creative talents, and give them a shared, meaningful experience in these isolating times.
The Big Drum Adventure has been adapted for remote delivery in the following ways:
It won’t be essential that the class teacher is able to troubleshoot all technical aspects of the project, but especially early on in the project, teething problems inevitably occur with the technology.
The Big Drum Adventure (online) is taught over 8 weekly sessions for 2 classes-a-day, usually P4-7 age. Shorter project lengths, and work with younger, older or SEN pupils are also possible.
For any further information, or to discuss a Big Drum Adventure programme in your school, please contact Mat Clements.
The Big Drum Adventure is a gateway music programme takes a whole class on a musical journey with drums, percussion and voice. Due to the restrictions of the current pandemic, the project has now gone to online, remote delivery.
The Big Drum Adventure introduces pupils to the exciting world of music making, building rhythm, playing and performance skills to give each pupil the confidence to progress to the next level. The project takes inspiration from world music and the diversity of drumming from many cultures including Brazil, Africa and the UK. The Big Drum Adventure has been successfully run by Mat Clements in hundreds of Scottish classrooms since 2006, usually funded by the Youth Music Initiative, but also independently booked by head teachers.
Remote delivery
With our current Covid reality, there is arguably an even greater need for high quality, remotely delivered music that can nurture every pupil’s creative talents, and give them a shared, meaningful experience in these isolating times.
The Big Drum Adventure has been adapted for remote delivery in the following ways:
- Instruments are delivered to the school and remain there until the end of the programme. 2 classes can share the instruments in a number of ways, so the instruments remain covid-safe – e.g lessons on instruments could alternate each week, or instruments could be cleaned between classes
- Each lesson is taught with a mixture of pre-recorded tutorial films, activities led via the smartboard, warm-up games, musical games and ensemble practice
- Body percussion and activities with practice sticks (that each pupil makes for themselves) vary the remotely delivered material, and provide learning without the need for drums each week.
- Class teachers are given a pre-start twilight training session to cover key project elements such as use and care of the equipment, making practice sticks and technical aspects of delivery via the smartboard
- If permissions allow, the class would be filmed to create a memorable ‘outcome’ in the form of a music video that can be shared to other pupils, parents, school social media etc.
- a laptop with good quality web-cam
- linking this laptop to a classroom Smartboard with speakers
- willingness from the class teacher or another staff member to participate in technical aspects of the project such as using a webcam, working via Microsoft Teams (within Glow), audio and video recording of their class. A class ipad on hand will make all of this very straightforward.
It won’t be essential that the class teacher is able to troubleshoot all technical aspects of the project, but especially early on in the project, teething problems inevitably occur with the technology.
The Big Drum Adventure (online) is taught over 8 weekly sessions for 2 classes-a-day, usually P4-7 age. Shorter project lengths, and work with younger, older or SEN pupils are also possible.
For any further information, or to discuss a Big Drum Adventure programme in your school, please contact Mat Clements.
