No one ever said teaching kids would be easy. It’s fun and at the end of each rehearsal we are blown away. That’s not to say that we don’t get challenged. The kids challenge us often, but every so often they thrown down a challenge of their own. This past Wednesday for example, we were rehearsing outside. The older kids were learning a new version of Samba Reggae while the younger kids were learning a new dance. During rehearsal time the older kids started to whine and complain. They weren’t listening and just kept going on and on. Finally, the dance director said “While you guys were busy complaining the dancers learned entire new dance and went over it several times” Of course that started a match! The older kids didn’t think the dancers would be able to learn what they were playing. Of course that just set up the challenge. The challenge was that the younger kids would learn whatever was taught and would be excited and pick up quick, while the drummers learned the dance. You can just imagine how excited the dancers were to get to drum! They jumped right in. Strapped on their Surdos (some were almost as big as the kid =) ) and were ready to play. While the drummers decided to go play on the playground… So after several minutes, the dancers where playing the rhythm! It was so great! They listened paid attention and learned! This did not sit well with the drummers. It wasn’t the same rhythm they played so in their eyes it didn’t count. What they weren’t seeing was that it’s so much fun and things get done better if they would just pay attention in the first place and just stop complaining! Needless to say that after that the drummers wanted to show off and ended up playing the correct rhythm with almost perfection!! It was awesome and it sounded great!
If you want to hear the rhythm they learned and that caused all this you can check it out on our facebook page cubclubsamba
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