the cinema they begin with a description
of normal life and then there’s an
interruption and that’s where the story
begins so if you were watching the Lord
of the Rings
there’s the hobbyists they’re all
comfortable and then Gandalf turns out
if you’re watching Titanic people are
all having dinner they know what class
they’re in and then they’re an iceberg
comes along and then the story begins
you know the TED talk the normal story
is you sit in the dark there’s a
conveyor belt of people who come by with
little flesh colored mics on and you
hear all this stuff and you think that’s
and then you go home and you you lose
the notebook immediately however
important it was to you however your
life has changed because of something
that happened in the room so I am going
to be the interruption of this TED talk
gonna ask you to stand up please
and the thing is we talk about dare and
go yeah I like that day of stuff I think
next week I’ll dare myself to do
something but you have 10 seconds now
I’m going to dare some of you yeah I’ve
got this band right the Tom or the
trialed and I said I’ve got this great
gig that’s Ted King and I need eight of
you to come and drum with me right a
musician’s you know what musicians are
like they’re great and I it terrible in
the morning so run them all that right
none of them will get out bed so got
eight drums here I said it’s a TED talk
and they said Tom read the brochure it’s
a TEDx talk so I said still at eight all
right so look so eight people do you
want to do it come you have to run you
have to say that’s my drum it’s a dare
well that’s completely blown my talk
because I thought about two people would
come up and then I could talk about how
we have this mental stuff that says my
music teacher told me I was rubbish I
can’t go on stage and he won Nick’s that
bit which will give us a bit more time
all right so for the rest of you we’re
going to sing aren’t you glad aren’t you
glad you didn’t come to the stage so
it’s another day you know and and the
thing is it’s that the interruption is
often I mean it’s it’s called
interruption it’s really a dare it’s an
invitation
it’s a call in the hero’s journey they
call it the first call which everyone
generally turns down otherwise there’d
be no movie because if the Hobbit said
great dodgy ring go and destroy it great
we do they you know they have to say no
I don’t really fancy it agonda so so
you’re doing exactly the right thing in
your not really fancy in it some of you
don’t fancy you so much or in the
penalty position so you’re protecting
yourself which is standard so now I’m
going to strap my drama I know I
actually will warm up first so this
includes you like sitting down you can
do this I know when you stand up raising
would you stand up so we all do this
together and would you put your left arm
out in front of you
please and we’re gonna slap up that up
to the shoulder great there on the
inside down on the inside and we’re just
going to finish the warm-up by crunching
our shoulders up as if we’re stressed
and letting them go and then crunch what
let me go to the side and one more time
I want you to do a bit of acting for me
I want you to pretend you have lived
quite a hard almost heroic life
and you’ve never been fully recognized
for all the great stuff you’ve done for
other people if you were to let that
sigh go what would it sound like great
now we’re going to play you something a
beat to play to just while I strap my
drum on and you guys you can put your
hats on if you want on the drums that’s
I’m going to put this hat on and when
you just shake hands with at least three
so it takes the drummers I’ll come to
you in a minute
at the moment first thing we’re going to
sink so would you put your left foot
forward please I know you don’t always
have to do that singing oh it could be
the right foot I know I should marry him
any foot and we’re going to see what
natural rhythm you got in the room so
first of all yeah every group has a
rhythm it’s weird you know your rhythm
is similar to quite a lot of rhythms of
see mitosis when there is there is there
is no PowerPoint there’s no slides
we’re just live so it’s all about us so
let’s move together we’re going to go
forward I always see this keep moving
keep moving
because I work quite a lot in the city
I’m doing what he says they’ll be lunch
time soon there’s other people I can see
them vocal with them you know I’d like
you to tip your drums a little bit like
this lovely lady here she’s good in the
right position and then you do that so
the sound can come out at the bottom and
I just want you to go like this with one
hand is a little bit cramped Larry we
have to look after each other okay now
yeah then you shoe this be free and if
you’re the kind of person who thinks I
hate this there yourself to love it
because the truth is in your heart
something in your spirit is saying I
really love this I’m so sad I’m done
Laura this in my life no one knew they’d
respond there’s a sing and music score
they tell you in the third year when
you’re singing if you open your mouth
you get more volume I don’t know why
they wait that long to tell you about
it’s kind of advanced stuff so let’s go
straight into the advanced version of
this
good so keep moving keep moving
drummers now you can narrow alternate
yeah and as you do that let your
shoulders move so it’s like you’re doing
the cruel in the pub the pub
I’m thinking the last night you can tell
I’ve been asleep yet so how did they let
good keep grooving keep through it now
drummers you stopped a second
so keep the beat keep the pulse keep the
pulse it should be in there now I want
you to pick your drums are and form a
kind of arm around me bring your chairs
with you so we really are the top more
they tribe great we’ve got seven minutes
so this song’s called emailer
so I’m going to sing it – it’s a West
African song is from Nigeria it means
thank you give thanks for life email
email amela be nice it so I just say
this word email ah cuckoo email ah
cuckoo I’ll tell you what you thought
you smile better than my band I’m gonna
get all your numbers later I think I
think they’re sacked all right so I’ll
see you again then just join in email
email uh email uh but you boo Amanda
let’s go he may email uh yeah I promise
with me email email
email everybody let’s try a male of
female our email out you email of good
so let’s not peak too soon it’s got a
it’s got a harmony email uh email uh
chuckling man love think IT father
let’s try it excellent so this side I
think you were singing the higher so
will you face that line over that way
same with you people out there and
there’s no natural division but if you
could face that way it means you’re
going to get very intimate with people
this side you’re going to look this way
so let’s go with this side mhm
email our GU email all right say you
your job rather look horrified is to
kind of encourage them by by smiling you
can do whatever you want here we go one
more time and we could do that rock
thing I’ll tell you what let’s move so
we’re going forward back to that forward
yeah
and you are going back so it’s like it
you can say it’s a tug of war but I
think it’s better than we just throws
some love to the other side pretend you
won the lottery you’ve read all those
articles about all that money making you
unhappy so we’re just chucking it but
chuck it would get rid of it okay this
side you ready keep moving you can be
free style if you want Babu Malachi come
up here film oke my shoulder I’d like
I’d like the world to see what I can see
the face great so give yourselves round
[Applause]
three minutes ago so I’m going to do an
intro with you a cool response so if I
go like this yeah so smart and be big so
we can do an intro into rhythm sing the
song and now I’m gonna go cut with one
second to go because I promise
here we go you ready me then you and you
look look happy well look now you’re
really impressed with what they’re about
to do please
you [Applause]