Percussion Workshop - November 6th 2008

'Just in Time' - The Percussion For Everyone Workshop

Master drummer Trevor Tompkins has said that all musicians / instrumentalists should learn the drums because a sense of rhythm is vital in all types of music. Gary has said that everyone in the group should keep time in parallel and no one should be leaning on or supporting anyone else.

This workshop will address these two comments by providing an opportunity to test and develop your rhythmic skills and to develop your rhythmic awareness in general. This evening will show that the drums and other percussion instruments are not variations on a metronome(!) but can create complex and compelling rhythmic structures.

The workshop will be lead by the experienced percussion tutor Damian Sciberras; the venue is the music room at St Cuthbert-Mayne School, the time is 1900 to 2100 and the date is thursday November 6th. The price is £10 (Adult) £4 (Young Person / Student) and an extensive range of percussion will be provided.

''People ask me 'what do you practice?' I practice time feels. I practice playing time and swinging. That's a priority number one. It's the articulation that makes me sound like me.........I would play along with records for hours.....one time I would listen to the bass line another time I'd just listen to the drums. I listen in a very particular way to try to get my ears so they would hear thingsl' so says saxophone legend Jerry Bergonzi. (Miles Orland, 'Jerry Bergonzi Solos, Transcription and Analysis, Dorn, 1994.)