"This is mega fun."
Darwin Remache
age 8
Created by Dr. Sherrie Maricle, RHYTHM, RHYME & RAP workshops are designed to provide children of all ages with a Hands-On, Musical, Interactive, Fun, Creative Learning Experience. This alternative to the traditional Three R's empowers children by nurturing their creativity, freeing their imaginations, encouraging self expression, developing self confidence and building self esteem.
The RHYTHM, RHYME & RAP objective is to combine music and literacy by providing children with direct, intuitive means to understand elemental musical and literary concepts in order to create and express a musical narrative of their thoughts, ideas, opinions and feelings.
CHILDREN will learn... to play various rhythms on "home-made" percussion instruments; to create and musically express rhymes; to develop an original story; to understand and interpret existing age appropriate pieces of literature; to compose an original RAP and to perform their original RAP.
Workshops can be booked in 1 hour, 1 day, multiple day and even week-long "summer camp" formats. Please contact Jami Dauber for additional information, workbooks, pricing and scheduling.
Click here for the print version of the Rhythm, Rhyme & Rap workshop information.
There is rhythm in everything you do. When your hearts beat, when you breathe, when you walk, run, dance, eat or speak, you are doing so in perfect rhythm... THE RHYTHM OF THE MOMENT. Your "rhythms" are affected by your emotions. If you are excited your heart "beat" may get faster. If you are relaxed the rhythm of your breathing may be slow and deep. If you are nervous your speech patterns (rhythms) may get faster. And if you don't want to go someplace, the pace (rhythm) of your walking may become very slow.
Awareness of your "life rhythms" will help you understand musical rhythms.
Most of the songs, poems and children's stories you love are expressed through rhyme. Using your favorite, most inspirational, or personally significant stories and words, you will create a short series of rhymes. Your individual rhymes will be used as a narrative foundation through which your thoughts, ideas, opinions and feelings can be expressed, or as the basis for a completely original story. Your rhymes will be connected by creatively asking and answering simple questions like WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY and HOW. Through your questions and answers your RAP will begin to emerge.
NOTE: It is very important that you become aware of the manner in which you speak (articulate) your rhymes. HOW you say something affects its meaning. If you say: "Stay in school, don't break the rules and you'll be cool" in a nurturing, enthusiastic way, the person you are speaking with will probably feel inspired to go to school. If you say the same thing in a threatening, judgmental way, that same person may not feel very encouraged by your advice.
Awareness of your vocal inflections will help you understand musical articulation and phrasing, which will allow you to express your RAPS with the desired musical effect.
In a literal sense "to rap" means to have an open, honest conversation. The musical genre of RAP has made it possible for an individual to "converse" freely and frankly with an audience. When you compose your original RAPS, one of your creative decisions will be to determine what subjects, thoughts, ideas, opinions and feelings you would like to share with your audience.
Your RAP can express anything you like;
or a combination of anything and everything you choose.
The subjects, thoughts, ideas, opinions and feelings YOU choose to express musically are always valid if they represent your honest intentions... whether you are expressing fact (a story based in truth) or fiction (a made up story). In other words, YOU CANNOT BE WRONG!
Your one of a kind RAPS are created by putting your ORIGINAL STORIES to your learned RHYTHMS.