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Samba Workshops for schools, Colleges, Businesses and Community Groups |
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| Samba drumming workshops are not only great fun but full of learning opportunities! We can provide Samba Workshops for Schools, Colleges, Businesses, Community Groups and Healthcare organisations. In particular, samba drumming workshops are great for corporate team building events, away days and conferences. Samba drumming workshops are a very positive activity for a wide variety of organisations and groups of all kinds. They are a way of developing team working AND personal skills, away from the pressures of normal everyday activities ..and it's great ....
Please contact us for more details or for a provisional quotation
So .... What will you be doing?How long does a workshop
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| playing alongside other beginners helps to dispel nervousness |
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confidence and fulfillment from playing together as a group |
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a sense of pride in the overall musical sound that is produced |
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encouragement and enhancement of teamwork |
On an individual level, you can:
| improve your co-ordination |
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| gain a better sense of rhythm |
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| develop your listening skills - you will find that you can gradually learn to listen to other patterns whilst sustaining your own part |

you can view a short video clip about samba here



Although this sounds like hard work, samba drumming workshops can be very relaxing, because in concentrating on listening and playing, there is no room left for all other thoughts and stresses which normally fill your head. Playing samba is about working together as a team, rather than individual performance, readily demonstrating the notion of 'the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.
People learn samba by listening, so you do not need to have any previous experience of playing an instrument or the ability to read music. Samba Workshops include:
| an explanation of the basics |
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| learning patterns for each instrument |
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playing both in sections and together as a whole group |
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learning visual and whistle cues for starting and stopping |
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learning 'breaks' - the introduction of a different pattern, or a section playing on its own |
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learning two or three different rhythms |
You can view a short DivX video clip from a BBC programme featuring an item about samba which explains its origins and rhythms as well as containing an example of one of our school samba workshops.
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You will need to have the DivX plug-in to view the video clips. See Note below
Workshops can be:
a few hours
a weekend
away days (one or two days)
a course of shorter sessions
The more time there is available, the more you will be able to achieve, by becoming more comfortable and proficient in playing, learning a wider variety of rhythms and acquiring performance skills

Note: If you don't have the DivX Plug-In for your browser you will automatically be asked to install it by Internet Explorer. Otherwise, you can download and install the DivX web plug-in/player first here - Windows 2000/XP only )
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