Week 9 - Discovering Keith Terry

 Through the semester we have been lucky enough to be engaging in many Orff based activities but today we did one that has been my favourite so far. Today's activities was Keith Terry's 'Clapping System 123456789' This game involved each number having its own sequenced body percussion with a matching amount of hits as what the number is. From this the class then put together a sequence of number eg 4653. As a class we then had to perform the body percussion of those numbers in order. This activity was super fun and interactive and a great challenge. I personally think number based musical activities are great as it works on timing and forming different groupings of time. 

After class I was very curious and interested as to who this genius Keith Terry was. When I got home I searched him up only to find out that body percussion is a specialty of his. After binge watching a-lot of his videos on youtube I thought I would share this one on my blog as it will give you an insight to how in-depth and amazing his body percussion is. I have defiantly sourced body percussion inspiration for future Orff based assignments after watching these amazing videos by Keith Terry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKzko9z8jU8


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