Samba drumming dynamic percussion, dance and music sessions for team building, conferences, breakout activities and staff away days. Samba with its driving and energetic Latin rhythms is still one of the most popular and effective teambuilding sessions to date. Thousands have marvelled at their ability to find the drummer in themselves.... “Strike up the drum; cry ‘courage!’ and away.” (Shakespeare; King Henry VI)

Samba Drumming

Learn one of the most dynamic drumming styles in the world. Using the authentic Brazilian instruments including the Surdo (large bass drum), Ago-go Bell and Snare Drum; you will experience some of the passion, energy and rhythms associated with South America. They will be playing a coherent Samba Reggae piece complete with musical calls and breaks!

The body percussion warm up.

Two lines of teams face up to each other and using a very simple process of body percussion will interact with their opposite number. Co-operation with their new found friend and fun concentration culminates in a finale of hand claps, chest beating, clicking fingers and lots of hilarity!

Incorporated with this teambuilding event we create the fundamental element of music rhythm with the unique and immensely versatile boomwhacker (plastic tube, different lengths when hit together produce a pitched tone). These have proved a fantastic tool for learning and enjoying music. Lots of energy, lots of noise and a real sense of achievement.

The group learns a simple but challenging groove through a collection of rhythms when combined creates a very infectious tune. The participant experiences their importance within the piece by taking other elements of the groove away.

The whole group is then invited to separate into two and in 10 mins to compose their own groove to perform to each other. They will have learnt simple elements of music; pulse, off beats, rests etc and with only limited help if required from the tutors, they will create a unique groove.

Why corporate drumming events work

Drumming has been used for centuries to stimulate and inspire. Its uncomplicated format guarantees successful accomplishment and arouses the senses. The collective energy throughout drumming emulates natural teamwork leaving the individuals motivated and energised yet relaxed.

The realisation when all of the group are drumming to a steady rhythm which then all of a sudden aligns is exceptional and immensely powerful – a great way to unite and inspire!

Other Drumming Teambuilding Events

The Industry of Sound

A corporate drumming team building event involving dustbins, car wheels, drain pipes, scrap metal. An industry of sound, a remarkable team building session creating a huge array of sounds and rhythms that will leave your group animated and amazed at their achievement.

The Industry of Sound drumming event is an amazing journey with inanimate objects constructing new boundaries in music making.

The Chain Gang

A unique instrument invented by Big Beat involving bin lids and chains!

Bat Phones

Drainpipes with u-bends make for an interesting resonance. Played with bats, drainpipes will never seem the same again.

Car Wheels

A wheely good metal sound thrashed out on old car wheels, minus the rubber!

Funky Bin section

Play that funky bin, with broom handles and energy. It’s not a rubbish sound but a clatter of metal providing the driving hum for the whole group.

The Industry of sound is perfect for an indoor teambuilding event for approx two/three hours or a half day corporate event.

The Euro Rhythm Song Contest

An event of fun and total madness, this is a new addition and will prove to be very popular in the future! Using the Toy Orchestra package for an event filled with audience participation culminating in a ‘Woganesque’ and cheesy Eurovision contest to rival the original.

The Euro Rhythm team building event incorporates a plethora of Toy Orchestra instruments, including boomwhackers, animal voices, woo tubes, twirly drums, train whistles and other weird and wacky sounding toys. A Short performance by the team of instructors explaining the merits of each ‘instrument’ will be followed by a collective session. Guests will all learn an interactive piece based on simple rhythms and tunes. They can choose a well known nursery rhyme or tune like ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ to create their piece to or create an original composition or pick their favorite pop tune.

The wonderful creations are then performed to each other and in true Eurovision fashion award points, hoping of course, not to receive themselves the infamous ‘nil point’. We present prizes to the best group as voted by the rest of the groups in the style of the Eurovision Song contest.


For the Record

Have you ever been in a recording studio? Heard yourself on disc? Ever wanted to be a pop star?

Well we can’t promise to turn you into a pop star but we can provide you with the fun and exciting opportunity to record your own compact disc.

In one day we will take a group, compose and rehearse, record and produce a 3 – 4 track Latin style CD.

The group will learn an authentic Brazilian drumming piece like a Samba or a Samba-Funk which will be accompanied by percussion and rehearsed before recording on site using mobile recording equipment. The recordings are mastered and a final printed CD produced for each person.