Practical Experience for Creativity

Using Rhythm Work to Exercise Your Creativity “Muscle”

Discover rhythms and movement on your own and in a group.

For example:

  1. Everyone thinks of a rhythm
  1. Choose someone to go first
  1. They will clap their rhythm
  1. Everyone will repeat
  1. Next, using hands, beat the same rhythm on the drum (ball)
  1. Everyone will repeat
  1. Next, using drum sticks, beat the rhythm on the drum
  1. Everyone will repeat
  1. Next, add movement
  2. Everyone will repeat
  3. Start again with a new leader

Experiment with your own rhythms practice drumming and changing rhythms alone then teaching a group.