Here are links to Arthur Hull's UKplayshop End of October 09

A fantastic opportunity for teachers and drumcircle facilitators to ...   more »

After a manic two weeks of driving around the country from Swansea to Ipswitch its nice to be home and still for half term week
Things are changing fast at DrumCrazy.
I am creating a new website, organising a training week with Arthur Hull for the October half term, looking to train new facilitators and still haven't been fishing this year!

Just before Christmas DrumCrazy spent a morning in Newquay with the Fifteen Cornwall apprentices. A lovely group to work with. The really got stuck into the drumming and were keen to discuss their experience and relate it back to the workplace.
Here are some pictures:

Here is peter running a final performance for Salisbury school.

to inspire teaching assistants to have a go with their instruments after we have left! tips to support them.   more »

What is the most extraordinary thing about the way Barack Obama communicates?   more »

We have learnt also to be prepared for anything over the years,   more »

Setting up




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The Instruments


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Video Demonstration. A polyrhythm is basically the layering up of more than one time signature on top of each other.   more »

'I'd just like to say thank you and let you know how helpful and inspiring that day was. From January this year I have been running an afterschool club for KS2 children from the school....... I ran 12 sessions up til April, ending with a performance at a whole school assembly with parents invited too. 18 kids performed a drumming piece, went on to boomwhackers and sang too.   more »

If you have boomwhackers in your cupboard getting dusty then this video might inspire you to get them out and dust them off.
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There were 13 teachers and assistants attending from primary and special schools. In the morning participants played a balance of drums and percussion instruments together. By creating the music first hand they learnt skills and ideas about what it takes to create rhythms, improvise and be part of a music ensemble.   more »

DrumCrazy Booking Calendar   more »

You can now buy our CD, Boomwhackers or soundshapes from the drumcrazy shop

Hands on training   more »

I am starting to create an archive of sheet music on sibelius.com
Just search J walter or john walter
So ...   more »

If you are considering buying djembes for use in UK schools then watch out!!!
I visit hundreds of schools and ...   more »

I am playing around with creating sheet music in Sibelius of some of our songs here's the first. Let me know if you are successful or not. you may have to download and instal "scorch"
Here's the link .

Training Course for teachers: Fri 30th Nov 9.30 to 3.00pm. Lunch provided. Barwick and Stowford C P S BA22 9TH   more »

Here is a slideshow of pictures taken at the Drumcrazy Drumcircle Aug 1st 2007 in the New Forest
Find more photos like this on Drumcircle Facilitator's Forum

Over two days we ran about ten hours of drumcircle at an international scout camp in the New Forest. At ...   more »

Just got back from WOMAD 2007, Our tenth WOMAD running drumcircles.
Logistical problems were paramount. Mud everywhere, no vehicles moving on site so the normal drumcircle was just not possible.Couldn't get the drums there and they would have been destroyed by mud , oh and there were no chairs because they were on the other side of the site.
Anyway we agreed to get everything we could personally carry from our van and see what we could do. We still managed to occupy two hundred people with soundshapes and hand percussion and really enjoyed it.
If you were there tell us how it was for you.
Two main songs were Fanga and Eh Away.
MP3 of Eh Away is here
Did you take  any photos? email them to me and I will post them up.

Here is a link to a first vocal draft of "Eh Away" It is from the Yoruba culture but the ...   more »

Heres a quote from the Music Subject manager at Frittenden primary school:

"It was great that all children had a ...   more »

Spent a wonderful morning in a prep school in Plymouth working with Abimbola Alao.
We have just restarted a project to create a Cd of her Yoruba songs and you can listen to the first draft of the first song here and give us some encouragement to get on and make the CD.   more »

Training day for teachers.
We strip music down to its bare essentials and
give you the skills and confidence to ...   more »

A mixed age range 5 - 12 years scouts enjoyed 2 hours of energetic drumming last night. One of the youngest boys volunteered to conduct the 50 strong group to start with loud and soft rumbles and dramatic stop cut with him jumping in the air.   more »

Just found this article on Salisbury high School Site. Apart from a Rave review it gives an outline of what ...   more »

It was a delight to visit Offwell School today. Six yr 6's helped me get installed in the village hall    more »

What's the name of the crouching child in this picture who was conducting his classmates to play loud and soft?  ...   more »

>>Peter Scott from the Drum Crazy team spent a morning at Cossington School on Tuesday letting the children create different ...   more »