PERCUSSION CHARTS and COMPOSITION ACTIVITY

Create and Perform with Percussion Instruments

Here is a series of fun activities for your music class while reinforcing the concepts of:
♦ beat,
♦ rhythm,
♦ performance and
♦ music notation.

This TEN page PDF file contains

1. TWO percussion charts to perform

2. TWO percussion chart templates for students to create their own percussion composition

3. A simple percussion chart to perform to Santana's song, "Smooth" (you need your own copy of the song)

4. An example of how to transcribe the notation on the percussion charts, into standard music notation.

5. The composition task asks students to compose a percussion chart for a song of their choice, organize a percussion band from class members, rehearse and perform their percussion composition to their chosen song.

This activity is best broken up into mini sessions’ over 4-5 days.

DAY 1: Percussion chart and performance to Santana's "Smooth"

DAY 2: Standard notation activity.

DAY 3: Begin own Percussion composition

DAY 4: Organisation of band and rehearsal

DAY 5: PERFORMANCES!!