Ollie Tunmer is the artistic director for Beat Goes On. He has been delivering workshops since 2001 for the education, corporate and community music sectors. He gained a BMus (Hons) from Kingston University, and later a PGCE in Secondary Music from Canterbury Christ Church University. He is a qualified music teacher, and now delivers percussion workshops on a full time basis.
Ollie regularly works at the Teach First Summer Institute at Leeds University. He delivers workshops for British & International schools across the globe and for the COBIS Schools Council.
In the classroom, percussion often takes a supporting role. It provides the accompaniment to pitched instruments and is often relegated to the role of ‘timekeeping’. This need not be the case. Whole lessons and, indeed, schemes of work can be built around percussion and there’s no shortage of options in this regard. Djembe drumming and body percussion are two popular and inspiring options embraced by many music teachers. With 2016 being the year of the Rio Olympics, another percussion option is well worth exploring – samba drumming.
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