Percussion playing to a theme

It was pouring with rain, and so using the weather as an inspiration, we created small performances using a range of percussion instruments. The main criteria was that we had to begin at different times, there had to be a beat master that we followed and that we tried to play different rhythms, keeping to the beat. One group focussed on "sunshine" as the theme, so their composition was very relaxed and melodic, another on "rain and hail", another on "after the rain" and one on "hail". All in all, we had 30 minutes to explore the different instruments, decide on our theme, work out our jobs as a group and when we were coming in, practice and present them back to the rest of the group. This is what we came up with!