The benefits of kindergarten children learning African drums

The benefits of kindergarten children learning African drums are as follows:

1. Getting started is simple: unlike other musical instruments, African drum music is relatively easy to learn. It is difficult to feel frustrated in learning, and it is not limited by age, physical condition and living environment.

2. Rhythm enhancement: Rhythm is an important element of music. Understanding rhythm is a compulsory course in music training. Feel the rhythm and feel the vitality of life.

3. Fun of cooperation: African drums can be played not only by several people or dozens of people at the same time, but also by many musical instruments, such as African bass drums, bells, sand hammers and jazz drums. Let children experience the fun of cooperation.

4, exercise: strengthen the coordination of children's limbs, enhance the coordination ability of hands and brains, and stimulate thinking creativity. In practice and performance, in the hot sweat, unconsciously, exercise happily.

5. Foundation: After learning African drums, it will be easier to learn any other musical instrument. This is the rhythm basis of other musical instruments.

African drum refers to:

African drum, commonly known as Djembe (Golden Cup Drum, Sword Cup Drum) from West Africa, is a representative musical instrument of Ding Man culture in West Africa. Traditionally, Djembe plays by hand, mainly in low, middle and high notes, and needs to play drums related to specific life scenes with Dunun (Dundun Drum) to accompany dancers and singers. Now Djembe has spread all over the world, playing its unique value in different fields of music and training.

Percussion is probably the oldest musical instrument in the world. Tambourine is the most representative percussion instrument, so it may also be the oldest instrument in the world. Djembe, the African tambourine, originated from the Mali Dynasty established by Jimandine in the 3rd century. The earliest appearance can be traced back to 500 AD. It was originally hand-made by a blacksmith. Its shape comes from a mortar for mashing miscellaneous grains. Hourglass-shaped appearance, with openings at both ends. The larger open end is wrapped with goatskin, and you can play with it with both hands.