This section contains cool things I remember from the Wisconsin World Music
Drumming Workshop 2007.
Cues and ideas (and who said them):
- Pull off the sound (Will)
- Use paddles for tubanos, fans for bongos (James, referring to hand
technique)
- This music is descended from speech (Will and Josh)
- Don't shout, and don't mumble (Josh)
- Open tones are the spoken parts, the melody (Josh)
- Muted and bass tones are the internal support parts (Josh)
- Use Peter Gabriel's "Shaking the Tree" with Ensemble 1 (Will)
- No specialists: everyone learns every part (Will)
- High-energy, advanced call and
response (James)
- Highlife is a modern African form, created to imitate Caribbean music,
so completing the circle (Will)
- Highlife patterns (dig-a-dum) can be heard in Afropop, Juju, Soca,
Samba, and other styles (Will)
- "Shave and a hair cut, two bits" can be modified to teach the timeline
for Highlife (Cindy)
- Use a "huh!" on the downbeat to start the gankogui part for Highlife
(staff)
- Ensemble 5 variation: two-handed mute for the last part of the low drum
pattern, can be doubled to find "8" subdivision (Will)
- Three positions in the classroom: sit-back, resting, and playing (Hong)
- Use Cohen's "Hallelujah," "What a Wonderful World," and "Ise Oluwa" with
Ensemble 5 (Will)
- People will sing if you give them a reason to sing (Will)
- Don't play any louder than you are singing (Will)
- "Match my spirit" rather than volume (Hong)
Songs from the workshop:
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