Your Building Blocks to Creating Drums Alive Choreographies and Routines

This is a supplementary course, designed to accompany the Drums Alive^® Basic Instructor Training Manual.  Download and print the Basic Drumming and Locomotor Skills PDF file below for easy access as you practice.

The skills described and demonstrated in this supplementary course are the foundational building blocks from which we at Drums Alive^® create our fun choreographies. Once you learn and master these skills, you too will be able to create your own rhythmical and movement choreographies and combinations. We encourage you to unleash your creative talents–it’s good for brain health!  Have fun, be safe, and always remember to keep the playful heart of your inner child!

The subsequent video lessons (Drums Alive Basic Drumming and Rhythmical Skills, Drums Alive Drumming with Locomotor Skills, and Drums Alive Drumming with Locomotor Skills with Music) that follow provide a visual and auditory demonstration of these rhythmical and movement skills.

We highly recommend you remember the names of the Drums Alive skills in this lesson and you learn to use the same terminology when teaching your students. This facilitates your and your students’ future learning of choreographies and routines that the Drums Alive team wants to share with you.

The Class Formations (ways to set up the “drum sets” in your classes) illustrate how you can easily add variety to your Drums Alive classes. We encourage you to experiment with the different class formations and set ups.  Changing the class formation keeps your classes interesting and stimulates your students’s spacial awareness.