Planet Jams

Creating a world percussion resource for use in an elementary music setting isa lot like giving a world tour...from the space shuttle. The big picture is cool, but thye details seem to go zooming by faster than the speed of sound. Mark Burrows has embraced that challenge to craft this terrific collection, which includes united on West Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Spain, Middle East, India,Japan, North America and Samoa, as well as suggestions for making the most of the group percussion process. Each unit includes a brief overview of the geographical area; pictures and descriptions of several traditional percussioninstruments; basic techniques for playing those instruments and rhythms; and aprocess for teaching the music example. A CD featuring authentic instruments and reproducible student parts are included to help facilitate the lessons, and Mark Burrows utilizes speech and body percussion throughout, making world percussion accessible to elementary general music classes.