Fun!! Hand Drumming Techniques
with Sue- Anne Solem
10 - 11 am, $15.
ages 5 - 7 and fun parents, too
Learn the basics of steady beat and rhythm using hand drums.
Lots of drumming and hand percussion games, too.
Creative Drumming with Sticks with
Shannon Morrow
Saturday May 24, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm $15
ages 7 - 11
Always wanted to play stick drums? Learn the basics of playing with drum sticks, and learn a few simple beats you can play on snare drums and toms. Then learn how to make your own found sound drum sets at home!
You'll explore creative options for making drum sets out of household throw aways such as buckets, pots and pans, boxes and other discarded items. Drumming is good for the body, brain and attitude!
We have drums and sticks to loan.
Hand Drumming Techniques and Drum Songs
with Cathy Kielar 1 - 2 pm, $15.
ages 8-11
Learn hand drumming basics and play interlocking rhythms.
Register at 484-909 or info@MusicExplorium.com
Adult and Teen Classes
Sonic Meditations
Thursdays, May 8, 15, 22, 29, June 12, 19 (skipping June 5), 7-9 PM
$100 for 6 class series.
Listening Meditation and Sounding Practices to facilitate creativity
in art and life.
In this 6 week course, Shannon Morrow will be your guide as you explore listening, sounding(making sounds), and improvisation from a holistic perspective. Each 2 hour gathering is a perfect way to release stress and renew spirit with relaxing and invigorating music based exercises. Participants will engage with each other in listening, sounding, and movement exercises and will learn strategies for group improvisations in a supportive, non-judgmental atmosphere. Many of the improvisational exercises in the course are based on energetic healing practices such as toning (sounding to vibrate the body and atmosphere for health), and drumming or sounding the chakras. We will explore practices developed by composer Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening Institute (an organization which fosters a unique listening approach to improvisation and meditation), Music for People (a non profit organization that promotes an improvisational approach to music), and others.
The intended outcome of this course is to open participants to new ways of thinking about sound, improvisation, health, and communication through music and sound. All levels of experience are welcome. Participants should bring instrument of choice, or may borrow percussion from The Music Explorium. In many sessions we will use our voices and bodies for improvisation. Everyone will be asked to keep a listening journal in any format desired, whether pictorial, written, or recorded, so please bring a journal.
Percussionist
Shannon Morrow is an improviser, Soundpainter, Deep Listening Instructor, and Rhythm Circle facilitator for The Music Explorium of Durham. Shannon believes strongly that the foundation of creative sounding begins with the practice of listening. She is certified to lead workshops in
Deep Listening, a creative practice developed by new music icon Pauline Oliveros. Shannon is also a Certified Soundpainter.
Soundpainting is the universal live composing sign language developed by composer Walter Thompson for musicians, dancers, poets, actors, and visual artists interested in working with the medium of structured improvisation. In addition, Shannon has studied healing through meditation and the arts with contemporary shaman
Joan Forest Mage (Life Force Arts in Chicago), and at
Invision Center (Chicago).
Introduction to Frame Drumming
Saturday May 17, 10 AM - 4 PM,
Music Explorium, 5314 Highway 55 Ste 102, Durham NC Directions here
Learn the fundamentals of the tambourine and the tar (Middle Eastern frame drum) from Farrunnissa, a long-time student of
Layne Redmond, the world-renowned master drummer, recording artist, author, teacher, and drum historian.
Introduction to Tambourine: 10 AM – 12:30 PM, $25;
Introduction to Tar: 1:30 - 4 PM, $25; or attend both for $40. Drums are provided. Pre-registration is required. To pre-register, send name, address, phone, email, and check to "Beauty Circles" to
Farrunnissa Lila Rosa, 5611 Buttonwood Court, Durham NC 27713.
Note: Attending this class will qualify you to attend the "Ancient Secrets of the Bee Priestesses" weekend workshop with Layne, Jul 18 - 20 in Durham, see details below. Contact: Farrunnissa, 919 361-2383,
NurLuna@aol.com, or visit us on the web at
www.BlessedBeats.org.
Beginning Hand Drum Techniques Workshop
Learn Rhythms from the Inside out with Jim Roberts
Saturday, May 31st, 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM. Lunch break from noon - 1:30 PM
$50 for all day workshop, $45 if registered by May 10th.
Send a check to Music Explorium 5314 Hwy 55, Ste 107, Durham,
NC 27713 or call us with credit card info.
Always wanted to play hand drums? This is a day to realize that dream. Jim will teach beginning hand drummers basic techniques that are appropriate to playing any ethnic style of hand drumming, like Cuban, African, Brazilian. No experience is necessary. The class will focus on a way for the beginner to have fun, full group experience with drumming without hurting themselves or feeling uncomfortable. This class will give you a solid foundation for expressive ethnic style drumming.
If have hand drumming experience, this is your class, too! Jim does a great job of improving your technique and getting you into a more solid drumming groove.
Register at info@MusicExplorium.comor call us at 919-484-9090. The classes will be in our spacious Community Event Room, near RTP on Hwy 55. Come around back to our bright green door. We have djembes and ashikos to loan. You will need to bring your own congas.
About Jim:
Jim Roberts has been a Cross-Cultural Percussionist for 15+ years. His diverse background has lead him to a lifetime of ethnic and multi-cultural musical explorations. Major stylistic influences Include West Africa, Cuba, Brazil, Americana, and Pop Cultures. His passion has been to cross different combinations of ethnic percussion with different genres of music. Presently, after a 11 year stint in Nashville, TN as a producer and studio percussion, Jim has returned to Chapel Hill, NC. He continues teach and perform nationally. In the past year, Jim has toured with Footloose and Laura Light in Michigan, Florida, Tennessee, Charleston, W.Va, and North Carolina. He performs with Tambor Vivo and studies bata regularly. Jim was on the faculty of the American Dance Festival in 2006 and will be on the music faculty at Elon University starting in fall of 2007.
