This is a Ghanaian song, arranged in 3 parts for strings.

Listen a few times and feel the accompanying rhythmic patterns. You could try clapping or tapping them, or use a chair or table as a drum?? (If playing with sticks be careful not to damage anything!!)

All 3 parts are recorded separately so that you can choose and listen before you play.

Once you can play this, have fun playing along with the backing, and maybe teach someone else in the house one of the rhythmic patterns, so that they can play along with you!

Video Clips

These are a good friend of ours, Edwin (known as Podzo) teaching children to dance and to drum. He works in schools, churches and with local dance groups to teach children. They perform at weddings, Funerals and various functions, and he uses the money raised to help these children through Junior School. Although school is free, the parents have to pay for uniforms, food, books and exams. Parents who have little money need their children to work with them selling in the markets, so they can miss out on a basic education, although Ghana aims that all children attend school.

The first two clips show Podzo working in a school, helping the children to learn a dance for a performance later that term.

The next two show him with his regular dance troupe, Amandze Fie. They rehearse in an old cinema, which is currently being used to store wheelbarrows!!

Podzo is an awesome drummer, and although he had polio as a child, is brilliant at teaching and demonstrating the dances!