Last Heart Beats before Easter

We have a great session planned for this week - lots of ideas contributed by everybody from last session, plus good bits from the awesome Heart Beats guitar orchestra .... Brazilian beats, Mexicans v Texans, tropical rainforests, and maybe even a reprise of David's song about his Good Dog.

The regular sessions will be coming to a pause as we start our outreach phase, going out and about to schools.

On 4th July there will be a date for your diaries : the Heart Beats summer party at Wells Museum, 6 - 8.


It's going to sound good ... the rhythm of the heart beat ..... warm hearts!

Deserts!

At our last session lots of people said they wanted to do 'guitars' this time.

We've been thinking hard about this one ..... because Geoff said 'African blues' too... so tonight's theme is...
DESERTS!
 First off, African desert blues (thanks for the inspiration, Tinariwen)
 Then, some low down Tex - Mex musical dualling in a dusty desert landscape.
We're just loading up with every guitar we can lay our hands on, plus a big bag of plectrums.
Get out of my way, tumbleweed. Here we come.

Heart Beats improvisation, February 2012

Alex recorded some of our session last week. You can listen to some of music by clicking on this link:

https://soundcloud.com/heart-beats-5/heart-beats-long-improvisation

Everyone is playing along on different instruments. Geoff is playing the didgeridoo - it sounds like a whale! We know Mark can make really good whale noises too, but he is playing the dun dun, the foundation drum.
The lovely sound at the start is Martyn on the 'boom tubes' - a home made instrument.
Emma is playing the steel pan which sounds really bright.
Daryl is playing chime bars.
David and Andrew are playing percussion. Daniel is on guitar.

We called this piece of music 'spring is coming'.

This week

Sunshine on our minds, don't forget there IS a Heart Beats session this week, so get ready to Get Funky! So you on Thursday.....

Great sessions

Great sessions, walking in our moonboots at Critchill, global holidays in Wells... lots of chat and good vibes, lovely to see everyone again after missing the last session because of the snow. We love heartbeats! Yes!

Heartbeats this week

Two good things this week : an after school club at Critchill tomorrow and a proper great big music session in Wells on Thursday ... great.

Critchill school

Excitedly preparing for our first after school club at Critchill school. Fun!

After school clubs

Some of our Youth Music funding is for outreach sessions. This term we are reaching new people .... visiting some schools to make music with after-school clubs.
On January 29th and February 5th we'll be at Critchill Special school in Frome.
Count Me In hero Ben Waller will be co-leading these sessions. Ben already runs a music project at Critchill, the Loops project.  
We'll also be working in Bridgwater with Alex Lupo, and in Frome with Openstorytellers and their FMU club.
Other plans are afoot to reach more new people ..... email info@heartbeats.org.uk if you'd like us to come to you!

HEART BEATS BEATEN BY WEATHER......JANUARY 24TH SESSION IS CANCELLED

The snow is very beautiful, and is falling thick and fast ...... sorry everyone, but we have decided it's not a good idea to go out across the Mendips in the dark this week.
We won't be running our session this Thursday, January 24th.
But we will be back on February 7th!

NEW YEAR, NEW EARS!

Our theme for this week is EXPLORATION.

We're going exploring in Alex and Ben's Spaceship full of new sounds!

We're landing on the Planet '2013' .... bleep bleep ... touching down ... what new music will we hear as we explore this unknown world?

It could sound strange, weird, wild, wonderful, crazy, squeaky, deep, funny ........

Approaching Planet 2013...... fasten your seat belts......

Don't miss the fun! This Thursday, same time, same place. Space food provided.