Beatmaking Workshops · Social Emotional Learning (SEL) music experience
BEATMAKING with JEREMY FISHER
Joyful, hands-on music for Kindergarten to Grade 8. Students sing, stomp, drum and play together, and leave inspired to keep making music.
3 × 75-minute sessions in one day · up to 100 students per session · $800 + HST for all 3 sessions · OCSB and OCDSB schools in Ottawa
The Workshop
Focused on fun, exploratory learning, we use simple patterns to create improvised music and joyful renditions of much-loved, age-appropriate songs.
What we play
- Voice: singing together
- Body percussion: stomping and clapping
- Hand percussion: boomwhackers, handbells and shakers
- Bucket drums
- Ukulele (Grades 5–8): strumming C, F, G and Am, where instruments are available
How we learn
- Count the beat: 1 & 2 & 3 & 4
- Follow the colours: the Chroma-Notes colours on boomwhackers and handbells
- Play the chords: C, F, G and Am
After the workshop
By the end of our 75 minutes, we'll have performed 2 songs together and shown curriculum-connected musical concepts. Keep it going in class by preparing songs for an assembly, or by making your own beats in Chrome Music Lab's Song Maker, which uses the same colour and counting systems.
Students will surprise themselves with the music we make together, and leave inspired to keep exploring in class and on their own.
About Jeremy
Jeremy Fisher is a JUNO-nominated songwriter based in Ottawa. He has toured the world with artists such as Alanis Morissette, Blue Rodeo and the Indigo Girls, and has released seven studio albums. He is the co-creator and songwriter behind the CBC Kids animated series Jeremy and Jazzy.
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