Drum Crazy Blog

Videos: Setting up and the instruments of the DrumCrazy Orchestra

John — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:56:51 +0000

Setting up

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The Instruments

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Inspirational Ideas for Boomwhackers

John — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:59:50 +0000

If you have boomwhackers in your cupboard getting dusty then this video might inspire you to get them out and dust them off.

13 Teachers and Assistants attended the Yeovil Training Day in November 2007

Janey — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:47:01 +0000

There were 13 teachers and assistants attending from primary and special schools. In the morning participants played a balance of drums and percussion instruments together. By creating the music first hand they learnt skills and ideas about what it takes to create rhythms, improvise and be part of a music ensemble.

Drumcrazy bookings calendar

John — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:38:00 +0000

DrumCrazy Booking Calendar

DrumCrazy Shop page

John — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:51:18 +0000

You can now buy our CD, Boomwhackers or soundshapes from the drumcrazy shop

Nov 30th Training day Drumming in schools

John — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:49:23 +0000

Hands on training

Sheet music you can listen to before you buy

John — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:32:14 +0000

I am starting to create an archive of sheet music on sibelius.com
Just search J walter or john walter
So ...

Buying Djembes for use in schools

John — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:45 +0000

If you are considering buying djembes for use in UK schools then watch out!!!
I visit hundreds of schools and ...

Sheet music for koomama/Eh away

John — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:59:17 +0100

I am playing around with creating sheet music in Sibelius of some of our songs here's the first. Let me know if you are successful or not. you may have to download and instal "scorch"
Here's the link .

Hands on Music in schools

John — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:21:25 +0100

Training Course for teachers: Fri 30th Nov 9.30 to 3.00pm. Lunch provided. Barwick and Stowford C P S BA22 9TH

Slideshow

John — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:20:24 +0100

Here is a slideshow of pictures taken at the Drumcrazy Drumcircle Aug 1st 2007 in the New Forest
Find more photos like this on Drumcircle Facilitator's Forum

Scouting Centenary Celebrations

John — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:16:17 +0100

Over two days we ran about ten hours of drumcircle at an international scout camp in the New Forest. At ...

WOMAD drumming in the mud

John — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:01:27 +0100

Just got back from WOMAD 2007, Our tenth WOMAD running drumcircles.
Logistical problems were paramount. Mud everywhere, no vehicles moving on site so the normal drumcircle was just not possible.Couldn't get the drums there and they would have been destroyed by mud , oh and there were no chairs because they were on the other side of the site.
Anyway we agreed to get everything we could personally carry from our van and see what we could do. We still managed to occupy two hundred people with soundshapes and hand percussion and really enjoyed it.
If you were there tell us how it was for you.
Two main songs were Fanga and Eh Away.
MP3 of Eh Away is here
Did you take any photos? email them to me and I will post them up.

Song used on teacher training day

John — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:43:39 +0100

Here is a link to a first vocal draft of "Eh Away" It is from the Yoruba culture but the ...

"DrumCrazy was the best musical workshop we have had in the school"

John — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:49:07 +0100

Heres a quote from the Music Subject manager at Frittenden primary school:

"It was great that all children had a ...

Collaboration with Lampo Education. Yoruba Songs, story and drumming.

John — Wed, 30 May 2007 10:11:49 +0100

Spent a wonderful morning in a prep school in Plymouth working with Abimbola Alao.
We have just restarted a project to create a Cd of her Yoruba songs and you can listen to the first draft of the first song here and give us some encouragement to get on and make the CD.

Hands on Music

John — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:24:47 +0100

Training day for teachers.
We strip music down to its bare essentials and
give you the skills and confidence to ...

50 scouts 5-12 years enjoy an evening together

John — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:04:13 +0100

A mixed age range 5 - 12 years scouts enjoyed 2 hours of energetic drumming last night. One of the youngest boys volunteered to conduct the 50 strong group to start with loud and soft rumbles and dramatic stop cut with him jumping in the air.

Salisbury High School Yr 8

John — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:31:52 +0100

Just found this article on Salisbury high School Site. Apart from a Rave review it gives an outline of what ...

Offwell School Rocks!

John — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:59:55 +0000

It was a delight to visit Offwell School today. Six yr 6's helped me get installed in the village hall

infants conducting their classmates at Illogan. March 2007

Janey — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:14:00 +0000

What's the name of the crouching child in this picture who was conducting his classmates to play loud and soft? ...

Peter at Cossington school

John — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:41:32 +0000

>>Peter Scott from the Drum Crazy team spent a morning at Cossington School on Tuesday letting the children create different ...

Very young children and loud drums

John — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:13:01 +0000

Had a lovely moment today with a group of 4 yr olds.
After a quick hello and how to play ...

How to hold and play a half moon tambourine

John — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:37:23 +0000

This is a half moon tambourine

How to hold and play a Triangle

John — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:57:16 +0000

Watch how to hold and play a triangle.

How to hold and play Shekere

John — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:25:13 +0000

There are lots of ways to get sounds out of a shekere

Watch videos here....

11 different ways to play the beat

John — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:49:09 +0000

You may think the beat is just the beat and that's it. Listen here and find out more

How to hold and play claves

John — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:13:46 +0000

Here is a short video of me playing claves.

Oakland Park Special School

John — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:58:39 +0000

I always enjoy visiting this school. The children are very lively and none are confined to wheelchairs so we can ...

Working with seed rhythms

John — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:36:04 +0000

What is a seed rhythm?
You are in a drum circle with some beginners and some people with experience. A ...