1. Hit your thighs
2. Clap your hands
3. Snap your right fingers
4. Snap your left fingers

Practice this pattern.  Repeat.  Repeat.

Once the group can perform this pattern over and over and over again, you start the group exercise in a semi-circle positioning, where all players can see every other player.

ON RHYTHM, the group does the first two beats and then one person says their name on the first snap and says another person’s name on the second.  (At this point, the impulse is sent to the second person).

Now, this second person waits for the first two beats and then says their own name on the first snap and another person’s name on the second snap.

This pattern repeats and repeats and repeats as the impulse is sent around the semi-circle.

As players become more comfortable with the exercise and each other, variations can be introduced: singing songs on rhythm (but not interrupting the name switching), asking songs on rhythm (“What do you want, Aubrey, what do you want?”), and sending it back and forth between one “anchor” player (Jack sends it to Andy who sends it back to Jack who sends it to Aubrey who sends it back to Jack).

This exercise increases the communion between players and prepares the group for cooperative play.