Drumfire Teambuilding

Hilltop Hoods are the first Australian hiphop group to go straight to number one in the ARIA charts.

Rihanna 8 weeks at Number 1, her song SOS reached the top 10 of the Australian ARIA chart.

Eskimo Joe, and that third album, Black Fingernails……clocked up sales in exces of 35,000 units in its first week of release.

Wolfmother has sold over half a million copies to date worldwide and is still top 20 in Australia.

Megadeth have signed with Roadrummer Records.

Suzanne Vega has signed with Blue Note Records.

How do I know this cheeky “Kelly” character. 

My friend and fellow Drumfire drummer, Bryan, tells me sometime in 2006, that there is this “great Kelly guy, and he is a fitness expert, and WOW Chrisse he can move body fat off people really quickly through his weights and fitness programs”  So OK Chrisse is going to be “lithesome, and svelte”……………..rings Kelly, and by February 2007 through many many panicky moments, I have contacted the ‘kelly’ and have already had 3 sessions. 

I thank God for Kelly’s patience, calmness, attentiveness, and enormous amount of expertise in the area I feel is my weakest!…………

We laugh a lot, I am sure he is starting to read my thoughts a little, which makes me laugh even more!!

(I try to lie to Kelly, saying, Yes to everything, like when he asks if my muscles are burning)  YES! YES! THEY BURN!!!!!!!!

Kelly asks lots of questions which are absolutely classic, like, get this one now - “Now Chrisse, is it a good pain or a bad pain”……………For a beginner, my whole body aches, and is always in pain, and no pain is good pain is far as I am aware!!

No Asparagus, no beetroot, no ice-cream, for God’s sake, I don’t think I even have a food life anymore…..

I have discovered the emotion of “feeling guilty” after touching a potato chip, not eating, just touching the stupid thing mind you!!!

Oh! and let’s not forget the royal “we” that Kelly uses in  those huge cliches “Remember Chrisse, we don’t like carbs”

Kelly, I think I am the Queen of Carb Kingdom!

But, you know, let’s get real here!  I feel that I am so blessed to be under the patient guidance of such an elite athlete, the world needs more people like ”Kelly” giving the gift of wellness to those of us who have journeyed too far into the zones of over-indulgence and into the headspace of “I must have what I want”!

I will keep you all informed of the journey, giggles and all.

So to all my “Drumfirians” I am going to try extra hard this week, Kelly and his brother Kyle will be attending vocal and singing masterclasses from next week, and this is going to be sooooo exciting for all!

Petr Janata, PH.D. neuroscientist at Dartmouth College, mapped the brains of people as they listened to a melody that moved through all the major and minor keys. 

In addition to activity in the temporal lobe, which is involved in the basic processing of all sounds, Janata found that a region just behind the forehead, call the “rostromedial prefrontal cortex” responded according to specific keys in the melody.

This region is linked to memory and emotions.

For over 200 years the Buddhist monks in the Himalayers, have performed their daily ritual of singing sacred healing chants……………sound moves body and soul.

Music with faster tempos in major keys (happy sounding melodics) correlate with happiness, whilst slower tempos with minor keys (perhaps think of the Swan Lake ballet music) trigger emotions into melancholy.

Melody……………works on the emotional core of the brain, the limbic system - which moves us to feeling emotions of happiness, awe, peace, fear and even melancholy.

Blood flow within the brain varies accordingly to what sounds are heard.

Tests at the Unviersity of Munster and Dortmund found that when non-musicians listened to music works, blood flow to the right hemisphere increased.

However when recordings with very powerful rhythms such as rock, and drumming, were heard, the increase of blood flow occurred in both hemispheres, suggesting that rhythm and pitch are processed in different parts of the brain.

Drumfire designs its programs to include the “marriage of both hemispheres” by including great vocals, and team singing with the rhythms.

Conversely, syncopation, which occurs when a beat come in just ahead of your expectation, is felt as exciting and physically stimulating, it is often used in dance music and drumming programs.

Body rhythms can be accelerated and decelerated by pulses of music.  Music with tempo of abour 60 beats a minute, slows the breathing and heart rate through a process called entrainment - this is the tendency for two oscillating bodies to lock into phase so that they vibrate in harmony.

(Sound healing www.findarticles.com)