Hey fellow musicians!!

[protovelo]

So a few months ago I started teaching a weekly music class for my capoeira group. Capoeira music is all percussion, with tambourine, congo and an instrument called the berimbau. For reasons I won't go into, I was chosen as the best person to lead and teach this class. Being a french horn player, rhythm is not necessarily my forte, but I have

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[space__monkey]

As one of those adults with little musical knowledge I'm not sure what value I can be. But I think I've learned a lot from playing Guitar Hero/Rock Band over the last year. When I started I was the worst, I had no rhythm or any sense of the patterns involved. Now I've gotten pretty decent and it's definitely improved my appreciation of music and probably would make me a much better performer, at least if everything I had to do were represented by colored blocks falling from the sky.

I don't know if a Rock Band jam session would be useful or feasible for your class... but it'd be fun.