A few months ago, I was planning to join a drum & dance group. The problem was, not only had I never drummed with other people before, I had almost no experience with hand drumming, period. So, I went to my cd collection for help - and no cd was a bigger help than Tempus Saltandi! I'd put in on, pull out my djembe, and play along. Sometimes trying to imitate the rhythm, sometimes making my own, and sometimes (especially at first) just making noise for the neighbors! It helped a great deal, however, and when I went to my first practice, I at least didn't feel totally clueless.

Then, a couple of weeks ago, the same album once again became a great teaching tool. I put it on and started dancing around while holding my 17 month old daughter. This delighted her IMMENSELY. So, I took advantage of the situation to help her learn rhythm and while holding her in one arm, I took her hand in my free hand and started to hit my shoulder to the beat while we danced around. Pretty soon, SHE started leading ME - and was darn near on beat, too!

This morning, Megan was getting a little cranky. I happened to be playing Tempus Satandi, so I picked her up and we started dancing around. Almost immediately, Wolgemut made her...well, WOLGEMUT! She even started trying to sing the melody of "Tourch Brawl" - which is high praise from a child that has a vocabulary of about three words! That and "Pease Brawl" seem to be her favourites (though jumping around to that one while holding a 25 pound baby just underlines to Daddy how out of shape he is)! This album hasn't left our stereo for a LONG time and probably won't, either.

Wolgemut - is there ANYTHING it can't do?!? :-)