"Play Drums To Improve Your Health"
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Why Playing The Drums Does You Good
Discover here how to play drums and how everything in life has a rhythm. Getting out of that rhythm can make you sick. Your own heartbeat must never stop and drumming can help you to take notice of it. Our inner selves can either be a place of calmness or action and frenzy and drumming can be a therapeutic way of getting in touch with this part of us and influencing it. Research verifies the therapeutic effects of ancient rhythm techniqes. Drumming can produce feelings of well-being, release emotional trauma, reintegrate self, accelerate physical healing and boost the immune system. So whether you are sick and in need of improving your health or have simply been inspired by people such as Kieran Gaffney who came third in Britain's Got Talent with his passionate drumming and want to take up a new hobby that will give you immense fun and satisfaction, drumming is for you!
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Contents at a Glance
- Let The Drums Roll For.....................
- Improve Your Health With Drums And Rhyth...
- Learning How To Play Drums- The Drum DVD
- "drumming is about feeling alive an...
- Play Drums With A Bestselling Drum Set
- Learning How To Express Yourself Drummin...
- Play Drums To Inspire And Entertain
- Ginger Baker Hellraiser:
- Drumming With Bongos
Let The Drums Roll For....................The Drumming Poll
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Improve Your Health With Drums And Rhythm
Read here to find out how the drum can help those with certain illnesses
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Stress
Participants of an hour-long drumming session revealed through blood samples, an increase in natural killer cell activity and a reversal of the hormonal stress response. (Bittman, Berk, Felten, Westengard, Simonton, Pappas, Ninehouser, 2001, Alternative Therapies, vol.7, no.1) -
Chronic Pain
Pain has the ability to reduce the quality and enjoyment of life and technology and pharmacology are falling short in the need to remedy this. Music can meet the mark in improving quality of life and reducing pain, according to Dr Barry Bittman in the Pain Practitioner. (Lingerman, H. 1995, Music and You. In the Healing Energies of Music. Wheaton, 111.: Theosophical Publishing House). -
Cancer
A group of people participated in a clinical trial using the HealthRhythms protocol and showed an enhanced immune system and an increase in natural killer cell activitiy. Although this may not be a cure for cancer, it can certainly be a benefit for those dealing with this disease. -
Parkinson's Diseases and Stroke
According to Michael Thaurt, Director of Colorado State University's Center of Biomedical Research in Music, rhythmic cues can aid in retraining the brain after neurological impairment or a stroke. Hearing slow, steady rhythms, such as drumbeats can also help Parkinson patients move more steadily. -
Depression
According to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine, a group of 30 depressed people over the age of 80 who participated in a weekly music therapy group were less distressed, less anxious and had higher self-esteem. -
Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's patients who drum are better able to connect with relatives and friends, according to Clair, Bernstein and Johnson (1995). The predictability of rhythm could provide the framework for repetitive responses that make few cognitive demands on those with dementia.
HealthBeat of Living Rhythms
Learning How To Play Drums- The Drum DVD
"drumming is about feeling alive and being creative....."
Here Is The Drum Tutorial that gives you drum lessons from your own home!
- Click Here For- Learning How To Express Yourself Drumming
- Presented by Nick Harrington, the sensational drummer who has taken teaching of the drums to the young and old by storm with his unpretentious style of straight forward teaching and expressive playing. This step-by-step beginner to advanced Drum DVD set will give you 100 minutes of expert teaching from a professional drum tutor. With bonus material that includes amazing and inspiring drum solos.
- Upbeat Drumming
- Nick Harrington has been playing professionally for the last 25 years and has created a successful drum teaching business serving individuals, schools and groups in South East Kent.
Play Drums With A Bestselling Drum Set
Learning How To Express Yourself Drumming
Drumming is about feeling alive and being creative.
Ginger Baker Hellraiser:
The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Drummer
Ginger Baker: Hellraiser: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Drummer
Amazon Price: $7.30 (as of 06/03/2012)
(Peter) Ginger Baker tells his story of a pioneering drummer who has done much to popularise world music with his passion for African rhythm and jazz. His story includes phenomonal success with bands such as Cream and Blind Faith alongside Eric Clapton, starting with his humble beginnings with his family in London to his life now in South Africa.
Drumming With Bongos
Play Drums And Tell The Rest Of US
Leave your drum solo here!
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gypsykitschpress
Mar 14, 2012 @ 7:56 pm | delete
- Oh wow, I never knew this. I always thought playing the drums would be so much fun. I might just have to try it! Thanks for sharing.
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Gregg B
Mar 2, 2012 @ 9:22 pm | delete
- I have been actively playing drums professionally for over 35 years and I love how it cures all my stress . Best thing I ever done besides have my daughter.
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ppound
Jan 4, 2012 @ 7:56 pm | delete
- I should live to be 100 then I play drums all the time
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jdquey
Jan 3, 2012 @ 4:53 pm | delete
- Chock that up for yet another random way to cure cancer :). Interesting thoughts though.
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alteredkat
Nov 4, 2011 @ 4:17 pm | delete
- I would love to know how to play drums...I'd be bangin on them all day long!
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sam132
Sep 6, 2011 @ 9:40 am | delete
- Fantastic lens, must admit I didn't know the health benefits of my favourite (now exercise!)
Will go and drum now!
Sam from Nice lens, some great information.
Sam from Roland Electronic Drums
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asrhiprecall
Jun 23, 2011 @ 10:36 am | delete
- What an interesting topic. I knew that drumming could release stress but I never would have known there were other health benefits as well.
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BrahmM
Jun 4, 2011 @ 5:28 am | delete
- Great lens, love drumming!
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tagsforkids
Mar 22, 2011 @ 5:55 am | delete
- Hmmm, interesting lens! Being an old drummer from my rock and roll days, maybe I'm healthier than I thought! :)
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JoyfulPamela
Mar 5, 2011 @ 4:58 pm | delete
- Hi! I came back to say *SquidAngel Blessed and featured on "Musical Instrument Angel"! =D
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