Kids' Drumming Classes

Drum Day for Kids!! Saturday, August 30 3 fun classes Fun!! Hand Drumming Techniques with Sue-Anne Solem 10 - 11 am, $15,ages 5 - 7 and  fun parents, too Learn the basics of steady beat and rhythm using hand drums. Lots of drumming and hand percussion games, too. Creative Drumming with Sticks with Shannon Morrow Saturday May 24, 11:15 am - 12:15 pm $15 ages 7 - 11 Always wanted to play stick drums? Learn the basics of playing with drum sticks, and learn a few simple beats you can play on snare drums and toms. Then learn how to make your own found sound drum sets at home! You'll explore creative options for making drum sets out of household throw aways such as buckets, pots and pans, boxes and other discarded items.  Drumming is good for the body, brain and attitude! We have drums and sticks to loan. Hand Drumming Techniques and Drum Songs with Cathy Kielar 12:30 - 1:30 pm, $15. ages 8-11 Learn hand drumming basics and play interlocking rhythms. Register at 484-909 or info@MusicExplorium.com

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Kids' Drumming Class includes:
(no class scheduled at this time)

• Body percussion like clapping, stepping, tapping and whapping
• Hand drumming on African drums like djembes, ashikos and dun-duns
• Hand percussion like shakers, bells and rhythm sticks and boomwhackers
• Steady beat and rhythms using word phrases (mnemonics), rhythm games, and stories involving percussion.
• Parent learns activities to do with kids at home, and an extended learning summary sheet is provided each week.

Kids and parents drum together in Developmental Drumming class

• Develops left & right brain integration for improved academic skills
• Builds non-verbal communication like hand, eye and ear co-ordination
• Creates a co-operative rather than competitive
• Promotes socialization
• Enhances family bonding
• Promotes individuality and leadership skills
• Builds self-esteem
• Offers a multi-cultural experience that breaks down cultural, gender and age barriers
• Promotes individuals uniqueness and their important contribution to the group
• It's Fun Fun Fun.

Advice for Parents

With such a vast selection of musical instruments, where you start? CLICK HERE for LP's Steps 'n Stages approach to early childhood music education. We sell all these offerings!

Basically you want to encourage development of beat competency in your child. This can be done with body percussion like clapping or stepping and musical instruments like rhythm sticks and drums.

You want to start with steady beat, like 1 2 3 4 and then move to rhtyms, like 1 2 & 3 4. We really like the Mommy & Me rhythm exercises provided by LP RhythMix.
Note: We like to call them Mommy and Daddy & Me. Check them out!

How about encouraging beat competency, fun and family bonding with an EXPLORE! Rhythm Jam with Family & Friends. This guide shows you how to have hands-on, rhythm education and fun with your family.

Encourage your child to make music with the most natural and accessible of all musical instruments: drums!

Music has the power to engage, relax, and energize us… and has also been shown to make children smarter. In studies conducted by early childhood specialists, preschoolers who received regular music lessons over several months showed marked advantages over their playmates who did not. Children dramatically improved their abilities to work mazes, copy patterns of color, and draw geometric figures. These skills reflect spatial intelligence, the foundation for more complex types of reasoning (such as those used in math and science).

Music has been found to stimulate every area of the developing brain, and similar studies with youngsters have linked early musical exposure to superior motor skills and even social abilities. Although the ability to learn continues throughout life, hands-on participation in music between the ages of three and ten seems to train the brain for higher thinking, and children who miss out on the fun of playing music may also miss some critical developmental opportunities.

Essentially, music provides a healthy, natural and invaluable opportunity for individual expression while encouraging the development of the whole child, enhancing cognitive, social, physical, and emotional skills.

The fact that MUSIC IS FUN should not be underestimated. Stimulating, amusing activities like playing music will capture and hold your child's interest and satisfy their craving for fun, while providing them with invaluable lessons that will endure the rest of their lives.

How Playing Music Can Benefit Your Child

Families drum together

• Aids academic aptitudes in mathematics, science, and the arts
• Promotes large and small motor development
• Increases scholastic participation
• Teaches the value of achieving goals
• Cultivates concentration and focused listening
• Fosters early vocal development and enhanced social abilities
• Bolsters self image and self assurance
• Encourages parent/child bonding
• Inspires self-sufficiency and appreciation for teamwork