Lessons

Drumset Lessons

Learn to read, play, and explore your musical ideas on drumset. Topics Include:

• Basic stick control and technique: Matched Grip, Traditional Grip, French Timpani Finger Technique
• Drum music reading fundamentals
• The rhythmic scale
• Snare drum & drumset rudiments

Styles Include:

• Jazz- (Progressive Independence, Brush Technique, Chart Reading)
• Blues- (Shuffles, Country Shuffles, West-Coast Swing)
• Rock & Funk Drumming
• Afro-Cuban Rhythms for Drumset-(Songo, Guanguanco, Bembe (6/8), ChaCha, Cascara, Palitos, Mambo & Bongo Bell Patterns) Brazilian Drumming & Concepts (Samba, Bossa Nova, Partido Alto)

Books To Work From:

• Stick Control by George Lawrence Stone
• The Complete Drumset Rudiments by Peter Magadini
• The Drummer's Complete Vocabulary as taught by Alan Dawson by John Ramsey
• Time, Space, & Rhythm by Bill Ray
• The Drumset Musician by Rod Morgenstein and Rick Mattingly
• The Commandments of R&B Drumming by Zoro
• Progressive Independence by Ron Spagnardi
• Timba Funk by David Garibaldi & Talking Drums
• Brazilian Rhythms for Drumset by Duduka Da Fonseca & Bob Weiner

Afro-Cuban Conga Drumming & Percussion Lessons

Learn the Art of Afro-Cuban drumming

Topics Include :

• Basic Hand Technique-Heel Toe Technique, Mano Secreto
• Sounds of the Conga Drum- Bass,Closed Slap,Tone, Mute,Open Slap
• Conga Drum Rudiments-Basic Ride, Single/Double Stroke Rolls,Paraddidles
• Clave/Bell Patterns Rhythms Include :
• Popular : Cha Cha Cha, Mambo, Bolero, Calypso, Bembe, Mozambique, Samba, Rumba Guanguanco, Pilon, Songo, Comparsa, Merengue.
• Folkloric: Rumba Columbia, Palo, Yuka, Makuta, Gaga, Guiro, Vodu, Iyesa

Books To Work From:

• Timba Funk by David Garibaldi & Talking Drums
• Conga Drumming: Afro-Cuban Folkloric Ensemble Rhythms by Gary Greenberg
• The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion & Drumset by Ed Uribe
• Giovanni Hildalgo
• Chanquito

Beginning Steel Drum

Learn the basics of the Steel Drum in a fun and creative atmosphere.

Topics include:

• Technique
• Sticking exercises
• Chromatic/Wholetone Scales
• Major Chords & Chord Progressions
• Popular Caribbean and Jazz tunes

Books to work from:

• Beginning Steel Drum by Othello Molineaux
• Harmony & Theory by Wyatt & Schroeder
• Comphrehensive Technique for Jazz Musicians by Bert Ligon

Pro-Tools Hard Disk Recording Lessons

Work One-on-One with a professional recording engineer in a private setting to learn how to capture, edit, affect, and mix Digital Audio in a Macintosh-Based Platform using Pro-Tools Hardware & Software.

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