Course Content by Unit
Unit 1: Teaching percussion technique to children and young people learning percussion instruments
- Posture/Playing positions
- Grip
- Independence
- Balance between hands
- Encouraging the tone from percussion instruments
- Mallet technique
- Rudiments
- Warm up exercises
- Orchestral Percussion
- Tuned Percussion
- Timpani
- Drum Kit
- World Percussion
- Studio technique
- Working as a section member/Playing as part of an ensemble
- Care and maintenance of instruments
Unit 2: How children and young people learn to play percussion instruments
- How learners learn
- Simultaneous Learning
- Learning spiral
- My learners now
- Understanding, assimilating and consolidating.
- Skills, knowledge and understanding
- Learning music musically
- Developing aural awareness/perception and acuity
- Pupil/teacher relationships
- Learning scales and studies
- Starting a lesson
Unit 3: Teaching strategies for percussion teachers working with children and young people
- Understanding my teaching now
- Preparation for teaching
- Expectation of teaching outcomes
- Diagnosis of learners’ needs
- Audio-Visual-Kinaesthetic learning
- Aptitude for learning
- Motivation for learning
- Simultaneous learning
- Assessment
- Exams/Festivals/Competitions
- Tutors/methods
- Teaching whole classes/small groups/individuals
- Proactive and reactive teaching
Unit 4: Developing a percussion teaching curriculum for children and young people
- Understanding what is meant by a curriculum and a syllabus
- Preparing and implementing schemes of work
- Short/medium and long term planning
- Personalising learning
- Becoming a reflective practitioner
- Communicating as a musician
- Playing and performing
- Chamber music
- Special Needs
- Schools of Percussion playing
- Alexander Technique
Laura Ritchie
Deputy Director of Academic Studies
Andy Gleadhill
Head of department – Percussion