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College Students and Drumming Programs

By Chelsea · Friday, November 22nd, 2013

The college years can be an exciting time for anyone, offering opportunities through education and the chance to meet new and exciting people. Especially with today’s reliance on smartphones and social media to connect with others, making a personal connection with others can be difficult, even for the most social student. While books and papers may be the main priority, creating social connections and strengthening the ties within a college community can have a lasting impact on a student, as well. Drumming with kids and adults in college helps create an opportunity to just that, by bringing people together from a variety of backgrounds and giving them the ability to learn how to work together.

Bringing an interactive drumming program into a college or university encourages a wide range of benefits for the students. It can be an activity of release, helping to calm fears and doubts strictly through the nature of music and rhythm. A college drumming program can help solidify students into a team, offering group development options that assist with creativity, motivation and even understanding of how people can and should work together in the adult world. Drumming as a group brings understanding of cultures that may have never been experienced before. It is insight into an individual and how they are better able to interact within a group, establishing confidence in communication and even a greater purpose for attending the college or university.

Because college life is more than just academics, drumming programs not only invigorate the brain for study purposes, but, these programs can prepare students for the future with work and other community-based relationships. In much the same way as drumming with kids teaches the basics of interaction, communication and youth development, young adults who drum can also learn the same dynamics on a much deeper level. Plus, a unified college campus can provide amazing results for the programs, teams and organizations within. By incorporating an interactive drumming program at a college or university, transitions from academic life into the workforce can be made just a bit easier, and a lot more fun.

Categories : Interactive Drumming, School Drumming Programs
Tags : College, Creativity, Team Development

Opening Up Communication with Rhythm and Drums

By Chelsea · Friday, March 29th, 2013

Through the years, a lot of research has been conducted on drumming and how it affects the brain and human development. It is simple enough to experience the changes that come about through drumming, but documenting why and how these changes occur has proven to be an important step in validating the use of drums for therapeutic, as well as social, reasons. In particular, researchers have studied the connection between drumming and communication skills and found that the former significantly impacts the latter.

Studies with children, especially children with developmental issues, have shown that drumming helps to successfully bridge communication gaps. When used as a therapeutic tool in after school programs or music therapy sessions, drumming has been shown to assist with verbal communication. Because drumming can be used to facilitate brain balancing, in which both hemispheres of the brain are activated and utilized simultaneously, there is the ability of drumming to help transform emotions into words. This, of course, is one of the most useful benefits when it comes to drumming and communication skills.

Children are not the only ones who sometimes have trouble finding the words to express their emotions. Adults, too, may find that they are feeling something they can’t quite put into words, complicating their personal and professional relationships. Drumming assists with communication in a few different ways. First, there is the ability for drumming to help give expression to emotions. There is also the listening aspect of communication and how drumming strengthens listening skills. The ability to listen well is tested and strengthened during interactive drumming sessions, allowing people to recognize any weaknesses they may have in this area without being penalized or condemned.

The fact that drumming is fun only helps to easily entrench the benefits. Drumming and communication skills are, in essence, the same thing. The point of drumming is to communicate, whether it is across the plains of Africa or solely for entertainment purposes. The beauty of interactive drumming programs is that they help groups of people learn to communicate better using a drum, which in turn helps people feel connected enough to communicate better using their words. Since drumming also improves comprehension, it’s possible that drumming can assist in resolving points of conflict.

Drumming is a gift that keeps on giving. When people allow themselves the opportunity to communicate through drums, they often find that they have also given themselves the opportunity to better communicate without them. This is the power of drumming. It creates both inner and outer environments that are clearer, more unified, and more balanced. That is a huge gain for something so easy to do.

Categories : Interactive Drumming
Tags : Communication, Drum Circle, Drumming Events, Team Building
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