Drumming for students with hearing disabilities. Dubai Drums conducts a workshop at the Al Amal Kindergarten and School for the Deaf in Sharjah to help hearing-impaired students develop their sense of rhythm and passion for music. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Rhythm is a universal language, so therefore it doesn't need hearing.
00:20Non-verbal communication is far more important than verbal communication, so therefore to
00:25me, if I've got the drum in front of me, it just means that I need to accentuate more
00:30my non-verbal communication skills and rely on the rhythm of the harp, which is the drum.
00:36Drumming with the deaf teenagers is no different than going and drumming with any new corporate.
00:41In fact, sorry to say, but they're actually better because they're listening with their
00:46hearts, they're really feeling it and they're paying attention.
00:50There is a lot of benefits that students can gain from it.
00:53They can feel the self-esteem, they can do what everybody can do, the hearing loss is
00:57not something like a barrier for them to enjoy the music like everybody.
01:01The most important thing is they can express through sign language or verbal language because
01:06some of them can't speak.
01:08They lack a very important part of it, which is the rhythm, okay, because the inner rhythm,
01:13you cannot get it from sign language, you have to get it through the voice, so the drum
01:17will tune this.
01:18It's so rewarding to do this kind of work, even with people that can hear you, you get
01:23so rewarded to see their smile and you see this kind of like appreciation and pride swelling
01:28inside them because they're realizing that they're achieving success and they're doing
01:31it together.
01:32So it's like you've got all these beautiful things that are going on inside them and then
01:36the happier they get, the happier we get and then it just gets happy, happy, happy.
01:40We're very happy to have the Dubai Drums here.
01:44I was very happy, so I want to go again, maybe I'll go for the Dubai Drums to learn more.
01:49I can't hear like the other people, so I enjoy the music through the vibration, so if somebody
01:54can listen to a song and enjoy it, I enjoy the drums through my body, my entire body.