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Drum Kit Lessons
Total beginners to players
NEW SERVICES IN 2012
Band Consultations
Communication and resolving band issues
How to Play a Great Show!
Okay...you have the music...now what?
Drum Set Clinics and Lectures
By appointment
Is Your Computer Hurting
Your Wrists?
Ergonomic training for drummers
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for new services in 2012
"one nation under a
groove"..Parliment
"About the students and the teacher..."
For the Beginner;
Play cool beats and fills (how to travel around the kit),
learning great technique, bounce and grip, basic rudiments, beginning reading and writing, the friendly Metronome,
learn to play songs from bands you like!
For the player;
Study drums from where you are at today building on your skills. New grooves
and fills, study "levels" of play, grip and rebound, the four stick moves includes the up-stroke,
drum with less stress or tension, speed and endurance, match or trad'l grip, how to "mix" on
kit, bass drum technique, metronome and click track, cadences, the short rolls, dynamics, extensive studies in Moeller
System, Billy Gladstone method, rudiment studies, hand and foot development, limb independence, play a press roll, take
a solo, syncopation, musicality, archs, placement, reading, writing, speaking and playing!
About the teacher:
I have dedicated
more than 25 years of my playing life to the teaching of drums to pass on what was given to me. I have taught hundreds
of students and thoroughly enjoy being a drumset educator. I am currently in a new 7pc R&B group appearing this
Spring!
My teaching is structured, informative and best of all...fun to learn. I love playing them,
teaching them and talking about them. Our discussions in one-to-one class are everything about drumming, music, and becoming
the true person you were meant to be. If you hear drums and are thinking of playing...or you play currently and want to get
a lot better, let me know. I have spent a lifetime playing and would like to show what I have learned as a drummer
in New York playing all styles including my area of specialty... rock, punk and groove. I owe a world of gratitude
to my mentors Allen Herman and Jackie Browne, students
of the great Joe Morello and Jim Chapin. My teachers also include Armand Santarelli, Joel Rothman, Patty
DeVoe and Al Duffy.
I
have guided beginners to players from
the starting gig, to the touring band to the "Gold Record" and my teaching studios have been featured in Modern
Drummer, Time Out Kids, Tom Tom On-line, Drummergirl, Go Mag. I was founder/drum instructor for Female Drummers Workshop in
Brooklyn for twenty years and Director/Drum Instructor for First Flight Music School in Manhattan. Find a category below
that might help describe you and call or shoot me an email about your drumming. You can always come over for "Open
Studio" to check it out.
Here's the breakdown:
Beginners
101 (never played before)
Beginners (some knowledge but just starting)
Advanced Beginners (enough to get started with other musicians)
Intermediate (playing drums in a band but need to know
more)
Advanced intermediate (playing with a band regularly and totally competant and need to know more)
Advanced (kicking you-know-what but need to know more)
