Feel the Beat with Drumming in Adapted PE

Mike Doyle Wayzata Public Schools

Anne Hill

St. Paul Public Schools

Elementary Level • Hand and eye coordination will be the best thing a child

may learn. • Reflexes of a child also develop just by playing the drums. • You exercise your muscles more than playing other

instruments. Benefits of Classroom Drum Circles and Youth Drumming

http://goo.gl/jZcfda

Drumming for Development: How Drumming Helps Children with Special Needs

http://goo.gl/fiSUN

Secondary Level

History • Carrie Ekins, the originator of the program, suffered a devastating hip injury.

• She began to drum on boxes. • She researched the reason for the feelings of euphoria.

• The drum patterns helped the brain to generate enhanced Alpha waves and synchronize the hemispheres.

http://www.drums-alive.com/?page_id=2

Benefits • Gives the mind and body instant feedback through continuous movement and rhythmical flow.

• Utilizes “whole brain – whole body” thinking by developing sensory motor reflexes and kinesthetic awareness.

• Affects the electrical activity in many sensory and motor areas of the brain.

http://www.drums-alive.com/?page_id=2

Tips

•Options for sticks? and buckets •Noodles •How to hold sticks •Plugs down •Sticks in Pits •Sticks in Crates •Start with drumroll •Sticks under control

Elementrary • The Freeze • Greg and Steve

Elementary • Chicken Dance • Werner Thomas

Elementary • Rock and Roll Part II • Gary Glitter

Elementary • Wipe Out • The Surfaris

Elementary • Hit the Drum • Go Fish

Elementary • Chocolate • Soul Control

Metronome

MetroTimer

Windows Media Player

• Right Click For Enhancements

• Choose “Play Speed Settings”

• Adjust speed of songs

Secondary • Can’t Hold Us • Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

Secondary • Katy Perry • "E.T."

Secondary

Secondary • Avicii • Wake Me Up

Questions?

Anne Hill anne2.hill@spps.org

Mike Doyle

michael.doyle@wayzata.k12.mn.us