Spent a lot of my day doing this - running African Drumming Workshops in schools in North Norfolk. This was the biggest group I had during the day, and I took this photo of all the djembes and chairs ready and waiting for the children during my setup time.
LOVE! I actually take doumbek classes every Wednesday, and help my instructor run doumbek workshops. We don't nearly get that many people, though. That's awesome!
@manek43509 I think the most people we had was a little more than a dozen. But you can focus on each individual a little longer with less people. We usually start out with teaching the sounds of the doum and tek, then introducing the arabic-style finger technique for the ka hand. We then run them through a few easy skeletal rhythms (usually Maqsoum, Ayoub, Malfuf, and the Masmoudi), make it a little more challenging and have them add in the ka embelishments, then have them show us what they've learned by letting them talk over in which order they want to play the rhythms, and have them play them one after another. If there's time left, we go over finger rolls, pops, slaps, etc. and just basically have fun. :)
Thanks everyone! The workshop lessons were a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to going back into these schools over the next term. :)
@rainechan
Oh, that's cool! How many people do you usually have your thing, then? What kind of stuff d'you do?