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Valentina Magaletti
“The main thing that separates you from playing the drums or not is having access to a drum kit.” – Valentina Magaletti. Ilia Rogatchevski, facilitator and co-founder of Bang Bang Drum School, wrote a feature piece for the Wire magazine about one of our favourite drummers: Valentina Magaletti! You can read the article here and listen…
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Music Tech Workshop
Today we conducted a workshop introducing music technology at Crumbles Castle for kids aged 6-12! The children played various sounding objects (steel bottle, plastic sheet, cymbal etc.) with drumsticks and beaters. The objects were amplified using contact mics and processed with guitar pedals to make percussive compositions. These experimental works were recorded using a four…
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New Drums in Our Collection
Thank you to all our little drummers who attended the first session of this season’s Bang Bang classes. We have a few new drums in our collection: the kids drummed on a Djembe from Senegal and played on a Pandeiro from Brazil! Pictured is one of our young drummers playing a Plan Toys kit. It’s…
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Classes in 2022
And we’re back! We’ve once again teamed up with Crumbles Castle for more Bang Bang Drum School sessions in 2022!
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Bucket Drumming
This week we focused on bucket drumming. We used our homemade colourful beaters to experiment with and play different timbres of the bucket.
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Graphic Scores
Today’s workshop was an introduction to basic graphic notation. We looked at a page from Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise, made our own aquatic-themed graphic score and performed along to Janine’s abstract animation.
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Our second workshop…
Our second workshop featured cymbals and body percussion. We learned the ‘We Will Rock You’ beat and made our very own drumsticks!
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Our first session went off with a bang!
We made explorations into the world of rhythm, making small hand drums out of old coffee tins and playing on a variety of drums including a snare, tom toms, shaman drum and a thunder drum!
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Only One Week to Go!
Bang Bang Drum School starts a week today! It’s a new venture for us and we’re very excited that you and your little ones will be able to join us. Here’s a little more of what to expect.
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Custom Drumsticks
In our second session, which will take place on Friday 8 October, we will be using our bodies to make rhythms and demonstrating various percussion instruments, showing that almost anything can be a drum!
Bang Bang Drum School
A drum school for little hands
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