The American Institute in Taiwan invited the Jonathon Skeels Steel Drums band, to Hualien’s special education school to host its
“Jazz drums music workshop” yesterday, to have the band interact with the children with special needs, the music that’s filled with rhythm, made the students fought to get on stage to play the drums, to dance around. 

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The leader of the drumming band, Skeels told, that this, was the very first time the entire band was in contact with a special education school, but none of the band members were worried, believed, that the special needs students were all very outgoing, that having them beat on the drums would be, good memories these students will come to have.  He’d also introduced the histories of the steel drums being discovered by a local musician in the Caribbean during the 1930s and 1940s, that that gasoline barrels were used as drums, and after “tuning” the cans up, and beating on them with the rubber band covered mallets, they’d made this special kind of metallic sound, very musical.

So, this, is the power of music, and, music can be used as an icebreaker, in just about any occasions, and, by introducing this group of special needs students to the drums, the students became more engaged in learning a lesson in music.