Percussion Workshop!!

Last week we has the most amazing Jembe workshop with Dave from the Jabba Jabba Jembe group. We all went out to his van and brought in all of his drums and other percussion instruments. We then arranged ourselves in a circle with a drum each. We either had a jembe drum (which you play with your hands) or a base drum (which are played with sticks). He then taught us a few rythms on each of the drums and then we began to play together as a group. He showed us where jembe drumming originated in west Africa and we also watched a video about music and rythmn within the west African tribes. I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop since it taught us a new skill and would love to do something similar again!