West African Drumming - Primary - 30 Player Wide Top Pro Class Set - Buddies

Best Value West African Drumming Pack for up to 30 KS1-KS2 Pupils

This 30 Player Pro Wide Top Buddies West African Drumming pack is a great low cost solution for whole class groups of primary pupils, ages 5 to 11. It contains all you need to get your class up and drumming quickly and to develop from basics through to first performance in just a term.

Top quality West African djembe drums and percussion

The 'Primary 30 Player Wide Top Class Pack' includes 15 top quality Pro Wide Top Djembe drums and 15 percussion instruments. This gives you a wide range of authentic West African Drumming sounds and makes it easy to split the group into ‘Buddy Pairs’, each with one big and one smaller instrument. There are three sizes of Djembe, to enable your group to differentiate the low, medium and high parts of many West African Drumming pieces. The Pro Wide Top djembes are lighter and more compact than normal djembes and they're all big enough for proper two-handed playing by primary pupils. The djembes have  been specially designed for use in the classroom: the goatskin playing heads are thick and strong, the mahogany shells are smooth inside and out, and the rubber edging protects both the drums and the floor surface.

Special storage/carry bags are also available for this 'Primary 30 Player Wide Top Class Pack' and will help to prolong the instruments' lives as well as making it safe and easy to move them around for outside events.

African Drumming – Primary Wide Top Class Pack Buddies are also available to purchase in two separate variations: 10-player and 20-player versions.

World-leading teaching resources for non-specialists

To make this West African drumming pack really effective in the classroom, we've also included two acclaimed teaching guides by world music expert Andy Gleadhill; ‘West African Drumming Book 1’ and ‘Percussion Buddies’. The West African Drumming book will take the group from basics through to their first performance in just 10 lessons. It contains a good repertoire for a year or more of playing. The Percussion Buddies book will show you how to develop percussion accompaniments for almost any piece, whether drumming, choral, ukulele or any other ensemble.

West African Drumming - a style and approach that includes each and every pupil

West African Drumming is an ideal group music making activity for schools from KS1 to KS4. Everyone is able to participate regardless of ability and it is quite often the 'difficult' or 'hard-to-reach' pupils who make the most startling progress. Drumming reaches the children other lessons fail to touch and the transformative power of music can be seen and felt very strongly in West African Drumming classes. There are simple and advanced parts, and although relatively simple in its components, the music can be developed into exciting and rewarding performances.