Glen \u201cPapa\u201d Wright, Jr. visited Lawson Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District, accompanied by a variety of percussion instruments.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThis is the fourth or fifth time I have been here at this school,\u201d he said before the first-grade students in Sydney Ledbetter\u2019s class arrived.\u00a0 \u201cI am going to introduce kids to different percussion instruments. They are used for four things \u2013 rhythm, sound effects, percussion and melody.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has more instruments than Mr. Rudert [Lawson\u2019s music teacher],\u201d one child remarked as Wright unpacked all of the items he brought.<\/p>\n
Wright, who is a member of Arts Partners and Springboard to Learning, divided the class into two teams, A and B, and he asked Ledbetter to keep score.<\/p>\n
He produced a steady procession of instruments. For rhythm he brought out hand cymbals and percussion rings (different sized circles connected by sheets of plastic).\u00a0 \u201cThis is a mallet. Say \u2018mallet,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cMallet!\u201d the students replied together.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis one sounds like a snare drum. Say \u2018snare drum,\u2019\u201d he instructed Team A after tapping on the medium-sized ring. \u201cSnare drum,\u201d Team A replied in unison.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThese are cymbals you play with your hands, so they are called?\u201d \u201cHand cymbals,\u201d Team B replied.<\/p>\n
He then played each one and called for volunteers to join him. He taught the volunteers which instruments made low, middle and high sounds. Next, he revealed an agog\u00f4 bell, a woodblock with a beater and a shaker.<\/p>\n
He demonstrated each one\u2019s sound and called for more volunteers.<\/p>\n
To produce sound effects, Wright used a vibratone with a rubber mallet and he made long and short sounds for the students by how far apart he held his index fingers on the vibratone. To let students make their own sound effects, he brought out finger cymbals, a bell tree and a twist drum, which is a small drum mounted on a handle with a pair of short mallets. When twisting the handle between your palms, the short mallets strike the drum\u2019s sides.<\/p>\n
Wright played melodies using his marimba next, which looks a lot like its cousin, the xylophone. He added a resonator, which looks like pipes from a pipe organ but faces down. Using two, three or four mallets, he challenged the students to a quick game of \u201cName that Tune.\u201d Students correctly identified \u201cLondon Bridge\u201d and \u201cOld McDonald.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next, Wright asked for additional volunteers and formed an impromptu kitchen band, using 19th century instruments people had at home, such as a washboard, sticks and spoons. Neckerchiefs, a short do-si-do dance and a quick hoe-down tune rounded out this section.<\/p>\n
As a culminating activity, students took Styrofoam cups they decorated with crayons, added some beans and rice grains then joined the cups with tape to create their own shakers. Using the shakers, students formed a conga line. Wright went on to duplicate the program for the school\u2019s other first-grade classes. (story courtesy of the Hazelwood District Communications Dept.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawson Elementary School first-grade students Jordan Green, Aaron Bunch, his aide Jessica Trotter, Michael Bohning and Raeonna Harrell help visitor Papa Wright play with some instruments that can be used to make sound effects. Wright, a member of Arts Partners and Springboard to Learning, arrived with his \u201cWright Rhythms for Small Hands\u201d show to all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-news","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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