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Benefits of Drumming

Children and Drumming

Drumming has many positive benefits for children, including academic performance, social skills, mental and emotional health.

Studies have shown that drumming:

Improves your child’s overall academic performance.
Shows that children actively engaged in arts education are likely to have higher test scores than those with little to no involvement.
Develops skills needed by the 21st century workforce: critical thinking, creative problem solving, effective communication, teamwork and more.
Teaches children to be more tolerant and open.
Allow your child to express themselves creatively and bolster their self-confidence.
Keep students engaged in school and less likely to drop out.

Many people believe that playing the drums is simply nonsense, that it is nothing more than mere noise.

What better way to teach your child discipline, endurance and confidence? Enroll your child today in drumming and reap the benefits, or better yet contact your school or local PTA and get our dynamic program into your children’s school.

Many artists would strongly disagree with you.
Drumming has been proven beneficial to both adults and children as well.

Firstly, there are the mental benefits.
Shown mostly in children drumming develops the skill of focus.
In following along with the beat and learning to keep tempo children are exercising their brains and developing skills that without drumming they may not ever use.
When following the beat children are using each part of their brain to ensure that the beat they are producing coincides with the beat they are hearing.

Learning the music will also increase your child’s memory capacity.
Drumming is a remarkable tool used to place oneself in the here and now, and this can be enormously beneficial for a great number of children.

Drumming increases your concentration and focus, it helps develop communication skills and encourages children to both talk and listen to each other, and it is a great way for children to explore their creativity, which leads to greater respect and understanding of themselves and others.

Providing your child with alternative activities will keep them away from the television set, the computer and the video games.

Next are the raw benefits of producing music.
Being that drumming is producing music unlike any other instrument many people think that it’s just a lot of banging around when in fact its most definitely not!
Drummers require just as many if not more skills than any other musician does.
A drummer is indeed a musician!
Music is a natural wonderful part of life and any interest a child shows in it should be encouraged. A Drumatic Innovation facilitated drum circle event will bring music and children together, providing a variety of drums and percussion instruments, such as djembe hand drums, shakers, and triangles.

Among some of the other benefits of playing the drums is that experts find that there are many positive effects children can gain from drumming in a rhythm circle.
Drumming is a great form of stress relief it is also contributed to expression of feelings leading to mood elevation.
Some long term benefits to drumming are hand to eye coordination, intelligence and self-confidence.
If your child drums and learns to do it well he or she will have a great sense of accomplishment.

Children today are just waiting for things to take the place of these electronic babysitters and music is one terrific source.
Drummers find that they are more in tune to things around them and find pleasure in things that they can hear and appreciate.
Being able to make their own music can do nothing less than teach them to be self-efficient, confident and mature.

Drumatic Drum Circles may be just the tool that you are looking for.

Drumatic Innovation is currently conducting drum circles, rhythm events and drum classes throughout the Pacific Northwest from Seattle to Portland. Drumatic Innovation is based in Olympia. Areas include Tacoma, Puyallup, Shelton, Centralia, Bremerton, Seattle, Aberdeen, Longview and Vancouver.