Music and literacy: an interview with Pie Corbett

At Beat Goes On, we are often asked to use body percussion as a vehicle for cross-curricular teaching. It’s easy to see why – music can present familiar topics in a new and memorable way. This improves the chance that children will retain both the subject matter...

Four ways to make more of percussion in your music lessons

Unsurprisingly, we love percussion! If you can use it to make a beat, then we can lose hours finding all manner of riffs, rhythms and grooves. In a busy music lesson, however, it can be easy to see percussion as little more than a glorified metronome for the pitched...