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Total Rhythm™ Workshops
Rumba Guaguanco Workshop
Rumba Columbia Workshop
Beginning Balinese Gamelan
To register for Workshops
Location of Workshops
On-going Drumming Classes
Robert's Teaching Philosophy
The Relevance of Rhythm: Why Drum?
Total Rhythm™ Workshops By Date
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Rumba Guaguanco Workshop, 3:00 - 5:00pm
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Rumba Columbia Workshop, 3:00 - 5:00pm
December 5, 2009
Beginning Balinese Gamelan, 3:00 - 5:00pm
Rumba Guaguanco Workshop
Learn all interlocking parts to the captivating Afro-Cuban Guaguanco: Rumba Clave, Palitos, Chekere, Tumbao, Segundo & Quinto.
All students will first learn to play rumba clave while stepping downbeats. Each successive rhythm is then taught SLOWLY and PATIENTLY to give you a chance to absorb the nuance and feel. All parts are then layered into rumba clave, so you knew where they fit with both the downbeats and clave.
This two-hour workshop is designed for beginner through intermediate players. Each students will leave with a working understanding of Rumba Guaguanco.
All drums provided, or bring your own. Full-length Instructional CD covering all rhythms available at the workshop.
Saturday, October 17, 3:00 - 5:00pm
Total Rhythm Studio
3001 Chapman Street, Oakland, CA 94601 (click for directions)
$40/35 advanced
Pay online with credit card via paypal™
Rumba Columbia Workshop
Learn all parts to one of the most exciting handdrumming arrangements of all time:
Rumba Columbia from Cuba.
All students will first learn the Rumba Columbia bell line, along with rumba clave, while stepping downbeats to get the rhythmic feel and tempo of the arrangement.
Each drum part is then taught with PATIENCE and care so that students can catch all nuances. The rhythms are then layered on top of the bell line and rumba clave so that the student is confident where each fits in the big picture.
This two-hour workshop is designed for beginner and intermediate drummers. All drums provided, or bring your own. Full-length Instructional CD covering all rhythms available at the workshop.
Saturday, November 7, 3:00 - 5:00pm
Total Rhythm Studio
3001 Chapman Street, Oakland, CA 94601 (click for directions)
$40/35 advanced
Pay online with credit card via paypal™
Beginning Balinese
Gamelan! With Mindia Devi
Gamelan is an exquisitely tonal, highly rhythmic form of music played
throughout the islands of Bali and Java in Indonesia.
In this beginning workshop, award-winning musician, composer and Balinese Gamelan Fulbright Scholar Mindia Devi will introduce
and instruct students in all the basics needed to play the instruments and the music. Come
in knowing nothing - go out having performed a gorgeous 10-minute gamelan piece full of melodic lines and intensely driving, fully engaging interlocking rhythmic phrases!
Full Gamelan orchestra PROVIDED!
Saturday, December 5, 3:00 - 5:00pm
Total Rhythm Studio
3001 Chapman Street, Oakland, CA 94601 (click for directions)
$45/40 advanced
Pay online with credit card via paypal™
To Register:
Pay online with credit card via paypal or call or e-mail Robert with your selection(s): 510-482-8005, Robert@TotalRhythm.com
and send check payable to "Total Rhythm" for course fee and mail to Total Rhythm, c/o Robert
Wallace, 3001 Jordan Road, Oakland, CA 94602.
Location:
All classes held at the Total Rhythm Studio, 3001 Chapman Street, Oakland, CA 94601 (click for directions), unless otherwise noted. Plenty of free street parking. Accessible by public transportation. (Fruitvale BART station.) All drums and percussion instruments provided, or bring your own (any drum).
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