{"id":86,"date":"2004-03-01T00:07:59","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T08:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chartervision.org\/86"},"modified":"2004-03-01T00:07:59","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T08:07:59","slug":"do-you-hear-the-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/archive\/86\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Hear the Beat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"note\">Editors&#8217; note: Schoolcraft Learning Community is a K-8 charter school in Bemidji, Minnesota. This article was reprinted with the permission of the Bemidji Pioneer newspaper.<\/div>\n<p>Conga and bongo drums, vase-shaped dumbecks and top-heavy djembe drums, resonated with the pressure of student hands on Wednesday, as 17 eighth grade students at Schoolcraft Learning Community learned to drum.<\/p>\n<p>A State Arts Board K12 Challenge Grant enabled Schoolcraft to host professional musician Mick LaBriola for a week-long workshop. LaBriola, originally from Chicago, where he studied at American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, has lived in Minneapolis for the past 20 years. A skilled drummer, LaBriola works with a number of groups including Ensemble Espanol, a flamenco group, based out of NEIU (Northeastern Illinois University) in Chicago; the Maroons, a Caribbean group; Karibuni, a group with musicians from central and South Africa; and Maqam, an Arabic quartet. LaBriola brought his musical influences into the classroom, teaching the students a variety of rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 17 eighth graders, fewer than one third had experience playing a musical instrument.<\/p>\n<p>The rest were able to pick up the rhythm by a call-and-repeat method. LaBriola would play, and the students, seated in a circle, would echo back the rhythm. Even the most rhythmically challenged of the group seemed to be picking up on the beat by Wednesday, the third day of practice. &#8220;His work here has been splendid,&#8221; said Karen Bradley, teacher, &#8220;The kids are<br \/>\nasking for more.&#8221; Every student had an instrument to play. Aside from drums, there were percussion instruments such as the cowbell, triangle and shaker.<\/p>\n<p>The rhythms they played together incorporate influences from Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Bulgaria, Spain and the U.S. &#8220;Drumming isn&#8217;t just about drumming, it&#8217;s about a lot of things&#8230; culture andmusic,&#8221; LaBriola said. &#8220;It has a lot ofprofound implications other than music.&#8221; LaBriola said he is interested in teaching cultural awareness through his teaching workshops. &#8220;It&#8217;s a way of sharing and breaking barriers that exist between cultures,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s also a way to exchange positive energy with each other. Art is a peaceful exchange between people. In order to play with people you have to have cooperation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors&#8217; note: Schoolcraft Learning Community is a K-8 charter school in Bemidji, Minnesota. This article was reprinted with the permission of the Bemidji Pioneer newspaper. Conga and bongo drums, vase-shaped dumbecks and top-heavy djembe drums, resonated with the pressure of student hands on Wednesday, as 17 eighth grade students at Schoolcraft Learning Community learned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiences","category-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}