As an end of year treat, we went to up to Papdale School to learn to play the steel pans today. It was very noisy and so much fun!
There were bass, tenor bass, seconds, guitar and tenor pans. It was harder than we first thought but we started to get the hang of it. We were learning to play The Banana Boat Song which is a traditional song from Jamaica. It was great to learn a bit about a musical culture belonging to some of the teams that will be competing in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
I will try to upload the video clip soon.
Take a look back at the Sports Day post as I have added more photographs.
It was really fun playing the steel pans at Papdale and it felt like we were trespassing. Me and Scott got to play the bass pan and it was awesome!
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i really liked playing the steel pans it was really fun and i loved it how one steel pan made a noise and the other made a different noise and i liked the song that we were trying to play.
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I relly enjoyed playing the steel pans and playing the bananna boat song
ReplyDeleteBy Liam
Steel pans wasnt what I expected. At first we got into partners and then just banged them with the sticks. Then we swapped steel pans. When we got to our steel pan that we were going to stick to playing we learnt the Banana Boat song. Me and my partner were playing on the guitar steelpans. It was really fun and very noisey.
ReplyDeleteKate
On Friday we got to play the steel pans at Papdale. Me and Jamie played the tenors. It was realy good fun.
ReplyDeleteElin P5
on Friday we went to Papdale school to play the stele pans. We plade a song could the banana boat song it was fon to play on the stele pans. from Callum p5
ReplyDeleteWe went to papdale school to play the steal drums and it is a giant school. We played a song and when the 3:00 bell rang loads of children poured out of the school. There were lots of different types of pans.
ReplyDeleteI liked playying the steel pans. It reminded me of when people were playying them for money in London. I really hope that we can do this again.
ReplyDeleteBy Greig
I really enjoyed walking up to Papdale to play the steel pans. I was playing the tenor base. Thank you Mrs Linklater James
ReplyDeleteOn Friday 27 we went to Pabdale school and played a new instrument called the steel drums. Pabdale was giant I didn't know were I was going it was awesome!
ReplyDeleteConnor p5
Friday was a lot of fun! The types of the steel pans were Bass, Guitar, Tenor bass, Seconds and Tenors ( which was the one I played with Luke) The Banana boat song was fun to play and it was also quite tricky but I got the hang of it. I think everybody had fun and really enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteKalle Shearer P5
I really, really, really enjoyed the steel pans. I can still remember what part I play and what to do. This is the seconds I think because I played it. First you do two on the E and C then rest then two E and C then you do two on C then two on E then one on C then two on D and last is a C. The banana boat song was really fun. After I had to go to the dentist so I didn't walk back but I walked there. Thank you Mrs Linklater for letting us go and Mrs Bain for teaching us the sreel pans.
ReplyDeleteZoe P5
I had fun playing the steel pans I was not very good at it. by alfie
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed playing the steel pans. It have never played them before and we learned the banana boat song. Going to papdale brought back memories because i used to go there
ReplyDeleteJamie Walker
At Papdale we played the steel pans in partners and I was with Zoe. We were a second. Before we got to play the song we tried all the other pans. I liked the bass pan best. The hardest part in the song was where it went " C C E E C D D C " but it was all fun. Thank you Mrs Linklater ! Courtney
ReplyDeletei really enjoyed playing with the steel pans at Papdale. I was playing on the tenor pans it was really noisy . Next year i hope we get to do it again. There was notes on the steel pans like e,g,h,f,c and i. Keira p5
ReplyDeleteI had lots of fun plaing the steel pans with the class. We had to play a song called the banana boat song. I have a small one at my dads but you cant pute your hand on it because you have olle on your hands and the olle stops the pans for working. by kiah
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