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Local artist uses drums to bring music therapy, education to Tyler daycare

Music can help improve skills such as coordination and fine-motor development, language development, pre-literacy, fundamental math, concentration, and memory.
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Young children watch from behind hand drums as a student at Ebenezer Daycare Center plays a special drum brought by local artist Casey "Muze" Williams on Monday. Williams visits the daycare quarterly to provide music education as well as music therapy.

TYLER, Texas — A local artist recently brought his program that uses drums as a means of communication to the children at a Tyler day care.

Casey “Muze” Williams created DrumTalk to share the healing effects of music with an emphasis on drums and vibrations, and on Monday he again shared the program with students at Ebenezer DayCare Center.

“I specifically plan their lessons with drums as the focus,” said Williams, who visits Ebenezer once per quarter. “Most sessions are on memorization, counting, variations and problem-solving.”

Read more from our CBS19 paper partner, Tyler Morning Telegraph.

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