# Percussion

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## Programme

  Listening, copying and playing: percussion brings the group together in rhythm. The specialist teacher demonstrates how different sounds come from the drum.

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### Listening to rhythms

      Children learn to hear and understand patterns.

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### Making sounds

      They practise how to make a djembe produce different sounds.

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### Playing rhythmically

      The sounds become part of a rhythm.

  Suitable for groups 5 to 8 (ages 8–12).

## Skills children practise here

- Good listening
    
- Sense of rhythm
    
- Coordination