Key Stage 2 met for an assembly of online music with Midé Naike.
Midé Naike talked about his Beat Box journey from the age of 16. He was originally from Nigeria, but now lives in Birmingham. In his group he has musicians from Italy, Jamaica etc who all bring their musical influences and genres to the mix. He explained that Beat Box is like the drums, creating a rhythm and he gave us a demonstration.
We joined in with a warm up of our faces and mouths, to make sure that we were ready to join in. We also practiced our breathing techniques, before we learnt some of the sounds and combined them. We were able to clap along to the rhythms which is an important skill.
Midé explained the role of a DJ and how they like to do “scratching” ie with the word “hello”. He had us pretending to bounce a word off a wall and back, in different voices. We also imitated various musical instruments with our voices, which the children thoroughly enjoyed and sounded quite impressive!