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3rd graders with a Roland TR-808

Submitted by on January 13, 2011 – 1:03 pm 3 Comments

Selwyn House School is an all-boys school in Westmount, Quebec, Canada. For computer class, one of their teachers brought in a 30 year old Roland TR-808 drum machine for the students to play with.

Here’s a video of them trying to learn how to use it:

How fantastic is that? These kids are going to go home, dreaming about drum patterns and xox programming. I wish I went to a school as cool as this.

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