Heyo!! Yes, yet another immersing in Korea culture activity provided by my school.... In level 3, we got to learn how to play the korean traditional drum known as the Janggu (장구)... There are a varies of drums (ranges from small to big) in Korean traditional music. There is a famous piece of Korean traditional music played by all these drums known as 'Storm' as these drums produced the different sounds during a storm, for instance the big drum (sorry forgotten the name 
) produced a sound that symbolise the thunder during the storm... and so on...
) produced a sound that symbolise the thunder during the storm... and so on...So on Wed, 24 Oct 07, its my class's turn to attend the traditional music class. So very early in the morning, we gathered at the lobby of our school and soon after that walked over to the center. Its really excited, everyone went into the class and each took a drum and drum sticks. Everyone sitting in position, chatting and so on.... Soon the teacher appeared and did a short self introduction. Afterwhich, he explains the different music instruments available in Korean traditional music. He uses Korean as well as Hanja (chinese characters) to explain which allows me to further understand what he meant....
So after that he taught us how to hold our drum sticks, why and how the drum is made, he also taught us how to read the music notes... Its totally different from the normal musical notes (豆芽字) that we learnt in school... In fact the korean musical notes for this drum is rather easy to understand and read.
Soon, we learnt how to hit the drum in rhythm... as in not noise but MUSIC...
Soon after we got the hang of it, he introduced other music instrument like the big drum etc... However only a few of the students played the other instrument... After a few practise, we combined all the instruments and play a little tune....Its really fun!!
However as we are in an enclosed area it soon became NOISe.... hahah.... Cos of the big drum, it really hurt our eardrums once we stopped playing the music.... haha.... Though its easy to strike and read the music notes, when it comes to mind and hand coordination people get bit of messy... so part of the song, I was fighting to catch up with the rhythm....
However as we are in an enclosed area it soon became NOISe.... hahah.... Cos of the big drum, it really hurt our eardrums once we stopped playing the music.... haha.... Though its easy to strike and read the music notes, when it comes to mind and hand coordination people get bit of messy... so part of the song, I was fighting to catch up with the rhythm.... Overall, its really fun however its really tiring and hurting to our eardrums.... But our teacher said if we were to play it in the open area it will be fine... heheh.... My korean teacher even told us most of her students suffered from muscle aches the next day... hahaa... But luckily I didnt... which meant I am quite fit ah?! hahaha 
Last but not least my 3rd level class's photo:
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