Project Description
Goals
Students will be able to create a musical percussion instrument at home that either ‘shakes,’ ‘scrapes,’ or makes a high/low sound.
Students will use these instruments to create music that is inspired by their local neighborhood.
In this 15 minute video, students of all ages are presented with ideas for how they can create percussion instruments at home using household items.
Materials Needed
Either an empty coffee can or an empty jar
Dried beans or beads or dried corn
An empty plastic food container
An empty can
A pen or pencil
About Creator
Andrew Hook is a Pittsburgh-based musician and educator. The priority in his work is deconstructing contemporary norms around music education through the precedent of improvisation and personal experience to the music rather than adhering to the classical cannon of western music. Andrew is the K-5 music teacher at the Kentucky Avenue School, a teacher of ‘Creative Expression’ at the CMU preparatory school, and a dance accompanist at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater and Point Park University.