Babies and toddlers
Music making can take place within a space where other activities are happening such as baby weighing, play and general social interaction. Space is created in the main play area on soft matting and sessions last between 25 and 35 minutes and usually start with the gathering drum. A range of toys and brightly coloured instruments suitable for the very young is provided.
Music making can take place within a space where other activities are happening such as baby weighing, play and general social interaction. Space is created in the main play area on soft matting and sessions last between 25 and 35 minutes and usually start with the gathering drum. A range of toys and brightly coloured instruments suitable for the very young is provided.
Young children and pre-school
Activities can take place in community centres, nurseries or other suitable venues. Instruments are provided which can include world instruments, wooden frogs, fish and fruit as well as more conventional drums, strings and brass instruments. Children can use these instruments, or a range of everyday objects lead by the Brite Trash team.
Examples of activities with everyday objects
Sounds. Introduction to some of the different qualities of sound; loud, quiet, long, short, melodic, percussive, how sound is affected by shape, by soft and hard surfaces such as spinning metal plates on carpeted and hard floors
Barrel and beaters. More investigation using different beaters on a large blue plastic barrel, exploring the sound chamber itself, tones made from different parts of the barrel and the effect of using a variety of beaters; broom handles, drumsticks, hollow plastic pipes and dog toys.
Barrel bands. Starting , stopping and free playing between the two, children are invited to perform in trios. In this and subsequent pieces the children were invited to give each band and each piece of music a name
Hard Hats. the musical potential of ordinary things such as builders hats as drums and working as duos, trios or quartets - emphasising starting, stopping and playing together; contributing to the development of listening skills
Kitchen Percussion. Moving from the building site to the kitchen, The Lots And Lots Of Pots Band comprising of sugar bowl xylophone, dog bowl drum kit and saucepan lid cymbals cooked up some fine grooves in trios, each beginning with a count in and ending in a cry of ''dinners ready
Brushes - the introduction of a range of scrubbing/washing up brushes to ''clean'' the stainless steel culinary instruments used in the previous trios. Very popular with the children, the playing underpinned by a rhythmic chant ending with a showing of the cleaned receptacles!
