Drumfire Teambuilding

Best drummers in New Guinea, these guys have to be just that!!!!!!

Chrisse, Nii Yankos and Bryan did their teambuilding workshop for the accounts team- leaders and their groups in August this year, no longer are these guys accountants but they have started their own drumming circle at their private compound estate….

Sabby has become a Mum for the first time to her beautiful daughter, “Margrete” She weighed 6 llbs, looks like her daddy “Leith”….Congratulations to Sabby and Leith from Chrisse Mamafrika, NiiYankos, Bryan, NiiAmah and Oudi..

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Drumfire uses song, and group singing with its programs - here is a little info, on why this is soooo good as a de-stress component in the program.

It has been found that singing allows the left and right hemispheres of the brain to synchronize. This helps oxygenate the brain, reduce the heart rate, reduce blood pressure and assist in creating calm brainwave acitivity.

Congratulations to Marianna, Levy, Manuel, Costa, Rod, Chantelle, Jill, and Steve, for their outstanding performances at their teambuilding gig on 13 September 2006……..I have no doubt they will move from marketing for Headsonique, into “Dancing for the Stars in Bombay”

There were rhythms played at this event that we have never even heard of before, and yes, they all passed go.

You are on your way guys, and the “DRUMFIRE Bouncy” award had to go to Costa, for the best Bollywood booty wiggle display of the night…..We had a great night guys, all the best!!!!!

Congratulations to Chris Bax aka Baxy, on the completion of his debut album.  This was produced by Chrisse Feros CEO of Drumfire and Voiceworx Academy, and Chris.

Shock Records Australia are taking a peep at Chris’s album and also the Nile Rogers Record Company in USA, Sumthing Records…..The album has an outstanding vocal presence, and is musically and lyrically in the zones of Howie Day, and Dashboard Confessional…..

Your rock Baxy!!!!

“Music is not only seen as art and entertainment, but an essential manner of sensorial patterning that increases long ranage memory, reading skills, and physical development”

(Don Campbell - Intro to the Music Brain St Louis Mo. MMBMus 1992)

Did you know that stress management through drumming and music can greatly assist reactions to events in the workplace and in your personal life?
We are not always able to control the events that occur around us, and when we are tired, work, home, family, chores, everything becomes harder.  Stress causes numerous problems such as poor concentration, exhaustion, poor decision making, lowered morale, and there is a loneliness attached to stress!

Participating in drumming and music programs reduces anxiousness, reduces stress, and raises self-esteem.

One of the goals of the DRUMFIRE team is to re-energize communication and listening skills, so that sharing your concerns and delegating tasks, with fellow workers and family, reduces the impact stress has on you, as an individual.

Stress - what a drumming session can do to change this?

Did you know that blood samples from participants of an hour long drumming session revealed a reversal, yes reversal,  of the hormonal stress response.

(Bittman Merk, Felten, Westengard, Simonton, Pappas, Ninehouser, 2001. alternative Therapies, vol.7, no.1)

When one participates in a drum circle, there is an etiquette that takes place, we listen, we share, we give to this community experience.  Make sure when you seat yourself, not to block anyone’s path, ask permission before playing anyone else’s drum or instrument, take off all your Bling-bling jewellery and watches…..Share the experience, and don’t be Carlos Santana’s drum soloist at Carnegie Hall,……everyone in the circle wants to hear what you have to give, and they in turn will like to give a performance back to you…..A drum circle creates Unity through Music!!!

ORESTES VILATO, USA  aka the “Cuban multi-percussionist extraordinaire” Think timbales, think Orestes Vilato.

Orestes recorded with and performed with Carlos Santana for 9 years from 1980 until 1989, he has recorded over 300 albums with artists such as Aretha Franklin, Ray Barretto, Cachao, Herbie Hancock and many many more, WOW!