Bunker Hill Comm. College Leadership Week Drum Workshop Jan.10, 2012 Pt 2

In this part of the workshop we talk about leadership needing to find and have common ground within the group. The metaphor used is that of being a spoke in a wheel. The closer you get to the center, "The more you see we are all alike!" All differences that we share go away and we are left with the purest of our humanity as people. We then broke the group up into two sides and showed them a rhythm we created called The Malden. We showed the group how there can be conflicting ideas between people, but then showed them how two different ideas can go together and be a good thing. We had them not only bring two different drum rhythms together, but even cause them to have a mini drum conga line. What the group got from this exercise was to focus on similarities rather then differences within the group when more then one idea is brought to the table. They were able to see that when you have trust in the moment and each other that multiple ideas can work together in harmony and not chaos. We then decided to mix it up and randomly pick people to come up and put them on the spot to make a rhythm in the moment and then lead the rest of the group with their idea when being put on the spot and not having any time to think about what they were doing. To learn more about Soundscapers Drumming (Joe Hayes & Josh Fonshaker) Facebook: www.facebook.com Drumming Community, New England Drummers: www.nedrummers.ning.com