All welcome - whether you are an experienced drummist or a complete beginner - our circles are renowned for making everyone welcome.
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In addition to our drum circles in Nottingham we are happy to travel to other venues and bring our work to your community.
We also offer training and other services.
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“You never know what will happen, you only know that something will”
Promoting the benefits of drumming through the development of practice, the sharing of information, research and training
Community Drum Circles with the Therapeutic Drumming Foundation take place at Jury's Inn Nottingham This venue is fully accessible
Drums provided or bring your own
Just down the road from the train station
Community Drum Circles
Sundays
2pm til 3.30pm
£4.50 on the door - accompanied children free at the Jury's Inn Waterside Plaza Station Street – Nottingham
NG2 3BJ
Community Drum Circles
At
The Therapeutic Drumming Foundation
There are lots of different kinds of drumming groups – this is what our drum circles at TDF are about –other groups work in different ways- If you are not sure about anything – please ask.
Advice to beginners – and a reminder to all of us
Enjoy it.
Don't forget to have fun.
Keep it simple.
You don't have to be an experienced drummer to fully participate and have a good time.
Don't worry even if you might think that you are rhythmically challenged. There is no such thing
Just get started and you will find rhythms inside of you.
Observe others.
These circles are about each of us playing our own small part and adding our own contribution to the whole
Good for you and good for the drum
Stay safe and stay healthy
Remove jewellery – and drum with clean dry hands (– your fingers can swell up while drumming and your rings can get tight) Jewellery can also damage the drum If you are playing a hand drum – don’t use other things to hit it with – it’s a HAND drum
Try to show respect for the instrument – in some traditions before playing the drum, a thank you is offered to the animal which gave its skin and the tree which gave its wood.
If your hands begin to hurt – take a break – run cold water over them
· The facilitator is not there to demonstrate his/her skills and abilities as a percussionist or to show who he or she is. The facilitator is there to help participants to discover things about themselves and about each other There are some basic rules
Ask permission before playing somebody else's drum.
Listen as much as you play. By listening to what's going on you will have a better sense of how you fit in.
Share the time and space. Leave rhythmical space for others in the circle to express themselves
Play at the volume of the group. If you can only hear yourself, you are probably not having a constructive musical relationship with the rest of the players in the circle. Play softly enough so that you can hear everyone around you. Follow and support the changes in volume and tempo that the group goes through .
· Encourage each other – don’t mock – don’t compete
· It is OK to “lose the beat” – if you drop out it is OK to join back in again – anyway, who said you were the one who was off the beat – maybe it was everyone else
· This is a process of helping to discover yourself and maybe love yourself a little bit more
· The sound of the drum is a common feature of our shared inheritance – a part of being human.
· A feeling for rhythm is an inherent quality in all life forms ( it sometimes gets squashed out of us – this is a chance to assert and rediscover your rhythm)
· Nothing is compulsory
· drumming is experienced in different ways by different people, no-one is more “right” than anyone else.
· Drumming is to be shared as equals – there is no hierarchy
· Drumming is about communicating – first with yourself and then with others
· We are all valuable.
Enjoy!
