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Dave delivers a high-octane lesson in multimedia storytelling guaranteed to spark the imagination and kindle a love of reading. Students learn how the drum was first used to communicate, how music can enhance storytelling and how instruments can be created from ordinary objects. Lots of audience participation ensures a memorable, fun-filled, percussion-loaded learning extravaganza as Dave sings, drums and narrates his way through an array of world folktales.

Georgia Performance Standards:

• MKGM.4a&b – Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments
• a. Improvise simple body percussion patterns.
• b. Improvise soundscapes (e.g., weather, animals, and other sound effects).
• MKGM.5a&b – Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines
• a. Create sound effects and movements to accompany songs, poems, and stories.
• b. Create simple rhythmic patterns including quarter notes and quarter rests using non- traditional and/or traditional icons.
• M4GM.4 – Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments
  
  
• a. Improvise rhythmic patterns using a variety of sound sources and answers to given rhythmic questions.M4GM.5 – Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines
• a. Create rhythmic and/or melodic motives to enhance literature.

Dave Holland

Dave Holland is a highly charged educator, versatile performer, and founder of Beatin' Path Rhythm Events.

He began his professional career over 25 years ago as a drummer/percussionist with the U.S. Navy, traveling throughout Europe and the Far East. He later pursued a degree in theatre and broadcast journalism and worked in the broadcast news industry for several years. Today, he shares his passion for world rhythm & culture with with young audiences through high energy performances and drum circles.

Dave has traveled to West Africa, Brazil & Cuba, always bringing back new instruments, rhythms & songs to weave into his rhythm based programs. Dave has been a presenter at the International Orff-Schulwerk Conference, the Georgia Music Educators Conference and the Percussive Arts Society's International Convention.

Dave is author of DRUMAGINATION ™, A Rhythmic Guide Book for Music Teachers, Music Therapists and Drum Circle Facilitators, and the creator of the "Interactive Rhythm Making" line of instruments. His family cd, DRUMMIN' SONGS & JAM ALONGS was released in 2010.