#rhythmability

So last August we went to Singapore and had drumming sessions with the wonderful athletes from the Singapore Youth Olympic Games. The 8 days drumming sessions took place at the Youth Olympics Village. Not that we're flattering ourselves but the event was a huge success and we had blast! Just check these videos and see for yourself. Leave us comments, love/hate? You decide.

Led by David Fotheringham, the YOG community and Champions got together and rocked their beat!

"The end of our LAST community drumming session with Alex Popov et al - captured for posterity..! Amazing that Alex Popov is exactly twice the height of Zul but Zul's smile is 4 times bigger than anyone elses!! Well done to all the Asia Ability Youth Olympic Games crew - FANTASTIC atmosphere!" - David Powell, Asia Ability Managing Director.

CELEBRATING 2010 WITH BEATSWORK COUNTDOWN

"On 31st December 2009, 50 radio 91.3 fans joined the Asia Ability team as they shook the Asian Civilizations Museum with the powerful rhythms of BEATSWORK samba. Part of radio 91.3's COUNTDOWN PARTY 2010, the event drew all ages and races for a brief but dynamic experience of diversity in harmony. Not only seen and heard by the gathered crowds on Singapore's riverside, the session was also broadcast live on the radio! An awesome way to kick-off the New Year with a BANG!!"

ASIA ABILITY'S BEATSWORK; INTERACTIVE DRUMMING AT SINGAPORE FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX 2009

Asia Ability rocked the Singapore Formula One night race last week with two Beatswork performances for the F1 crowds. It was a "public" event in that the 80 participants were rounded up right there and then from the thousands of F1 fans. We had a team of 15 Sambistas and "grabbers" as the Asia Ability crowd gatherers became quickly known. We were in good company as the performers lined up that weekend in Singapore included the Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, ZZ Top, Back Street Boys and Chakka Khan not bad support bands for our BEATSWORK!! 

It was a huge hit with the crowd, created good press publicity in Singapore and a fun weekend for the Asia Ability team (with the added benefit of performer passes to the F1 race!!).

BEATSWORK AT SINGAPORE'S ISTANA OPEN HOUSE

On May 1st 2009, Asia Ability took a group of 20 individuals from all walks of life, including DJs from Radio 91.3, and transformed them from musical zeros to heroes in 2 hours. With LITTLE or NO musical experience before this day, they performed for Singapore's President Nathan at the Istana Open House.

Watch the video to see them in action that day!

BEATSWORK LIVE ON RADIO 91.3

On 27th May 2009, the Asia Ability sambistas took to the airwaves, playing a BeatsWork groove with the Radio 91.3 morning crew.

Check out our performance in a Live Session with Radio 91.3!

LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME WITH BEATSWORK

On 7th June 2009, graduates of the AsiaWorks leadership program celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the first training in Singapore with a rousing BEATSWORK samba performance led by Asia Ability.

Check out our video performance that day!

LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME BEATSWORK

Recently Asia Ability introduced the leadership team from two Hilton hotels in Sarawak, Hilton Batang Ai Longhouse Resort and Hilton Kuching Hotel, to the unique teambuilding experience of learning samba rhythm and playing Beatswork together.

The Hilton Beatswork samba band played their finale performance in a totally unique venue - for the first time ever Beatswork was played in a Borneo longhouse!!

In our rucksacks were – drums, drumsticks, towels for sweat and earplugs. Earplugs? What in the world would a group of highly capable, creative corporate teambuilding specialists need earplugs for? To protect our ears from the roar and scream of Formula 1 cars turbine engines tearing down the streets of Singapore of course! 

That sweltering afternoon in the heart of this adrenaline thumping pit, 16 of Asia Ability’s finest Samba Maestros, Sambistas and Drummers alighted from the celebrity bus at the Esplanade and were quickly ushered through the growing crowd and into a heavily guarded side door where the artiste green room awaited us. This time we were invited by the Grand Prix body as roving artistes, to perform and engage the droves of ticket holders to join in the fun of our ever famous Beatswork programme, where we undertook to put a drum in the hands of every participant and transform them into the Singapore Grand Prix 2014 Samba Band, becoming the very heartbeat of the heated race on the tarmac! But Asia Ability was no stranger to the pole position as this was our third successive year as guest artistes and are now already a household name on the paddocks.

This huge, weekend-long event was slowly brewing into a mob as we listened to the hair-raising banshee screeches of the state of the art formula 1 cars taking off from the grid, warming their rubbers for the qualifying stage, as all 16 of us geared up and filed our way from the green room to the backstage area of the esplanade park stage.  We were not the only stars to take the stage for this event as we were sharing performance space with the likes of the African Frititi Drummers, the Voca People and Ziggey Marley!