A fun and engaging series of play-along videos to inspire your classes to create music inspired by and celebrating music from around the world.
Includes FREE Live Online Leader Training via Zoom
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The rental period on Vimeo is 1-year, allowing you to use the video much as you like during the rental period.
Facilitated by Mike Simpson, Inspire-Works’ Musical Director, the play-along videos in this series show participants rhythms inspired by many cultures across the globe which can all sound great on instruments found at the bottom of a long-neglected music trolley.
The series includes the following episodes:
Inspired by: Marrakech, Morocco
Inspired by: Cali, Colombia
Inspired by: Cape Town, South Africa
Inspired by: Classical percussion
Bonus features:
Recording of 1-hour Zoom meeting teacher training
Get creative - play dog toys!
Get creative - play the trolley!
Get creative - table drum line!
FREE LIVE ONLINE leader TRAINING
Next session: Thursday 8th September 2022 4:30-5:30pm (BST)
Click here to register in advance for this meeting via Zoom
Can’t make the session?! No problem - sign up and we’ll send you the recording!
Fully interactive session via Zoom - bring something that goes bang, boing or ting!
Using Inspire-works’ model of workshop facilitating as a starting point, participants will have the opportunity to:
Learn:
new facilitation skills for whole-class percussion teaching
how to use differentiation in a whole-class environment with different age groups
how to repair or recycle classroom percussion instruments.
Engage:
in practical music-making activities to help enhance your own teaching
in discussions with other like-minded facilitators/teachers
Develop:
techniques for aural teaching
an understanding of appropriate music and pedagogy for different age groups
creative assessment techniques for whole-class environments.
About the Facilitator
Mike Simpson is the co-founder and musical director of Inspire-Works where he oversees at team of 18 facilitators from 12 countries who have led workshops with over 1 million participants.
He is the author of Rhinegold Education’s Teach & Play series of teaching resources (Teach & Play African Drums, Teach & Play Samba, Teach & Play Gamelan, Teach & Play Steel Pans) and a music examiner for Trinity College London. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London and with Tjokorda Raka Suastika of Ubud Royal Palace in Bali.
Mike was the leader and organiser of both of Inspire-Works’ successful Guinness World Records for the Largest Samba Band and the Largest Drumming Lesson.
Using his experience as a trained HealthRHYTHMS facilitator, Mental Health First Aider and associate of the Royal Society for Public Health, he developed the #BodyPercussion #RecoveryCurriculum using funding from Arts Council England during the Covid pandemic which has helped over 200,000 children in 27 countries with their well-being and mental health.
Mike is endorsed by Remo, the world’s largest drum company, as a Remo Rhythm, Wellness and You Facilitator Artist.