We were very excited yesterday because the Strike Percussion drumming group visited our school and put on an amazing performance for us. Strike have put on shows around the world so we felt very very lucky to see them in our school hall!
Tim, Murray and Tom played big drums, little drums, loud drums and quiet drums. They played the drums very fast and then they played them very slow. Murray showed us the conventional drums, the Cook Island log drums and we even saw them play some drums hanging off a big metal structure!
We helped the Strike Performers make music. We pretended we were in a rain forest and made rain music by clapping our hands, rubbing our hands together and clicking our fingers to the beat of the drum.
At the end of the show Tim, Tom and Murray showed us their very special trick - making music with fire! We had to listen really carefully so that we could hear the quiet rhythm of the flames. The Strike performers had special training to learn to do this from the talented people at Weta Workshop who are helping to make the movie 'The Hobbit'.
