Program
Build-a-Band®
A Rock-Inspired Team Building Experience That Gives Back
- 30 to 1,000+
- 2 to 2.5 hours
- Indoor
The details
How Build-a-Band® works
With our corporate CSR event Build-a-Band®, your group will build high-quality guitars, bass guitars, and drum sets to be donated to youth-serving agencies and organizations, and school music programs that are in need of instruments. Your group has the exclusive opportunity to bring the positive power of music to young people in your community!
Playing music can have a very positive effect on young people. High-quality instruments are needed by teens in youth organizations and by schools with underfunded music programs. Build-a-Band®was created to serve this need. These instrument kits were custom-designed for BEST – complete with instruction manuals – to provide a unique and exciting company event.
This CSR event starts by forming your group into teams (Bands) who pick a team leader (Lead Singer) and engage in our fun, fast-paced, team competition called BrainStorm.
BrainStorm features team questions, photo activities, and timed video challenges that enable teams to earn the parts necessary to assemble the guitars, bass guitars, and drum sets. Throughout the Brainstorm program, participants will be capturing photos and videos of each other in action.
As teams gain points through BrainStorm challenges, they will be rewarded with trips to our music store to obtain the parts needed for the assembly. Our expert facilitators (Roadies) will do periodic inspections will ensure the guitars, bass guitars, and drum sets are built to precise specifications.
Our guitar kits also include a carrying case, tuner, audio cable, guitar strap, picks, and even a personal amplifier! Depending upon the allotted time, each team can create a band name, design a drum head with a band logo, and create a concert poster to reflect the unique personality of their band.
Once all the instruments are built, don’t be surprised if a spontaneous jam session and photo opportunity break out. So, let’s get rolling and build some band instruments for future musicians of America, who will never forget your wonderful gift to their school or organization. At the conclusion of the program, a local charity or school representative may address your group and thank you for your donation.
To ensure the success of the experience, aspects of this event may be modified for your group size, group makeup, time available, and other variables.
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What's included
Everything that comes with Build-a-Band®
- Includes instruments (guitars, bass guitars, drum kits), personal amplifiers, audio cables, straps, guitar boxes, the team building program, preparation, production coordination, a professional lead facilitator and staffing.
Great for
- Collaboration & Accomplishing Common Goal
- Communication
- Fun & Engaging Interaction
- Relationship Building & Networking
- Group Size
- 30 to 1,000+
- Per Team
- 10
- Length
- 2 to 2.5 hours
- Setting
- Indoor
- Physicality
- Low
- Space
- 25 sq. ft. per person
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