Drumming 1B
- Course Code: ME633B
- Dates: 21/09/24 - 30/11/24
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Taught: Sat, Daytime
- Duration: 11 sessions (over 11 weeks)
- Location: Keeley Street
- Tutor: Paul Chivers
Course Code: ME633B
Duration: 11 sessions (over 11 weeks)
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What is the course about?
Develop the playing skills acquired in Drumming 1A. Our aim is to build a technical skillbase and develop stylistic authenticity when playing a range of contemporary grooves. Learn also about song structure, and practise counting and reading drum notation.
What will we cover?
- The establishment of a practice routine
- 4 way coordinated independence
- Mobility around the kit
- Study of contemporary styles, and classic grooves
- Rock, funk, and Latin styles
- Appreciation and analysis of predominant drummers
- Practice at reading music notation for drums.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- Develop and sustain a practice routine away from class
- Enjoy improved stick control and rudimental technique and apply this to drumset
- Play different styles with the correct 'feel'
- Demonstrate 2, 3 and 4-way coordination for drumming.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
For players who have made a formal start with kit drumming, who can play the simple paradiddles reliably at a tempo around 72 bpm.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
Learning as a group, using 3 or 4 kits, practice kits and pads. Tutor demonstration; listen to and discuss recorded samples; play together and solo; learn grooves by ear and from notation; individual coaching and correction. Mostly we will play as an ensemble, sometimes for a sustained period.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
Please bring your sticks and a notebook. Extensive learning resources will be available in the google classroom.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Drumming 1C will follow next term.
Paul has spent most of his adult life playing with sound, making music, and helping others to do the same. In the late 1980s, with 0.5 MB of digital memory, he played his own compositions at clubs and parties around the M25. He first taught music technology in 1990, whilst programming and recording with Asian Dub Foundation, Coldcut, Jeff Wayne, Juno Reactor and, latterly, Dub Colossus. He also studied with jazz drummer and pedagogue John Stevens, and with West African, Brazilian, and Cuban drummers. Paul ran his own recording studio in Belzise Park for 20 years and his interest in audio editing and performing brought him to sound art, leading to a Masters at Middlesex University in 2011, researching mashup culture, multiple simultaneous audio streams and associated issues of ownership. Paul has taught for Community Music, WAC Arts, and now at City Lit, where he teaches Sound Art for Music and for Learning Disabilities, Afrocentric drumming and other practical music courses. He also teaches at Guildhall, as professor of Electronic and Produced Music. He has run three recording studios and now likes to spend time enjoying the countryside and the sounds of nature.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
