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Today's lesson was not only about learning rhythmic drumming, but the story behind it, the feeling you need to learn and that the drummers convey. I am more someone who enjoys music passively. And I also associate music with people and events. Playing or getting involved with the rhythms was rather difficult for me as a very thinking person. Edgar, our "drum teacher", who sees himself and is more of a storyteller, gradually led us to our flow.
Not least because of the children who joined us at the end, I became aware once again of how quickly music can overcome linguistic or cultural barriers and how easily we can create a sense of togetherness.

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Today's session has given me an insight into the different points of view that each of us has in dealing with the inclusion of different nationalities living in the same territory.
In addition, thanks to Edgar we have been able to learn music without following notes and scores.
I was also delighted when the children arrived and joined us in a very natural way. The naturalness, dexterity, joy and rhythm with which they played the different instruments and interacted with us made us have a great time.

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I learned today that drumming is a mindfullness practice. You have to stop thinking, and bring your heart and mind to the moment. To live and to breathe the rhythm.

I also learned that one does not learn a rhythm by reading it from notes, or by looking or listening. It needs to be felt, experienced and absorbed. It is a total mind-and-body experience.

We had a meaninful discussion in the morning before the drumming session. An idea has remained with me for the whole day: music is a cultural language, and to have a discussion with someone from another culture, you have to know your own language. What do I know about my own musical heritage? Can I speak ”Finnish music”? If not, are there other cultural languages that I can share with others? Dance? Art? A smile?

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I loved the day and will bring so much of it straight to my classroom – we will play all the Gwo Ka rhytms using djembes with my students. So the most important thing to learn was for me the rhytms and facts about Guadeloupean music.

The thing I left me thinking the most was a comment about music coming from the heart. So that you have to feel the music to know how to play – I doesn´t come out if you try to learn it just with your ears or eyes. That is opposite to my history in music. I have learnt everything with notes and only as adult started to investigate other ways of learning music. We have so much to learn from the music culture of Caribbean islands!

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Rhythm is not learned, rhythm is felt and comes inside us from birth. All it takes is two notes and a pattern. In Creole culture, the different musical rhythms have emerged from the influence of the human beings who have inhabited the island. The local people do not study music, they simply share their rhythms. It is a cultural expression and a national identity. It was a pleasure to learn from Edgar the importance of music for all of us. At the end of the session a group of children of different ages joined us. Despite not being from the same nation, the music made us understand each other. MAGIC has emerged

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Music can not only teach rhythm but about life itself. A simple rhythm can tell a story that you can't grasp from a thousand words as you need to feel the story.
I'm a thinker who has to plan a lot and relies on science, so today taught me a lesson: let go and just feel, don't think about what you're doing and instead let everything flow.

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When I heard about our excursion, I was expecting a young, long-haired musician who would make some funny music with us. Instead, we had the pleasure to meet Edgar, who is such a serious and somewhat stern man. What impressed me - apart from the music, which was of course the focus - was that he introduced himself as a storyteller.
My grandfather used to tell me stories when we sat together - but that is something we no longer have. When I want to tell the children fairy tales, I take a storybook with illustrations and read to them.
But because there is no literary history in Creole, the stories are passed on from generation to generation. And we all know that told stories are much more colourful and that they trigger our imagination, because many more things have to be thought up in our minds.
In this context, I am actually a bit sad that there is no such thing in our culture anymore.
But as we already discussed in our course and saw in the first video - the one who does a journey returns as a storyteller.