Bucket-drum Workshop

* no music or drumming experience necessary

* open to all ages

* everything is provided

* fun while learning

The Bucket-drum Class incorporates traditional/everyday rhythms using non-traditional instruments (buckets) in a highly interactive ensemble-like setting. The primary goal of the class is for participants to have fun while becoming more aware of the extent to which rhythm and music are all around us, and the unconventional sounds and objects that can produce that music. The experience also builds some basic drumming skills.

The class employs the 5-gallon paint bucket as its main instrument, but can include a variety of everyday objects and even created/found ‘instruments’.

The class is designed to build transferrable skills and help participants:

- think creatively (and on their feet)

- pay attention to others’ body language and non-verbal cues

- focus and stay present (at a very high level)

- listen (intensely)

- suspend judgment (in themselves and others)

- employ ‘Yes, and…’ (accept an idea and build on it)

- adapt in real time

- move out of comfort zone (adventuresome and exploratory)

- play (with ideas)

- observe what you’re doing and how it affects others

- establish a Mindset of Creativity (imaginative and innovative thinking as a way of operating)

Marc Dicciani is currently an adjunct faculty member at the School of Music at West Chester University of PA, retired Professor of Drumset and Dean of the College of Performing Arts at the former University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and a busy performer, teacher, clinician, and researcher with dozens of international concert dates and clinics throughout the year.

He’s played drums with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Ben Vereen, Tom Jones, Lou Rawls, Mel Tormé, Dionne Warwick, and Natalie Cole; pop artists Boyz II Men, the Moody Blues, Spinners, and Stylistics; the Philadelphia, Buffalo, Honolulu, and Nashville orchestras; on the Tonight Show and the Golden Globe Awards; recorded for TV/film in Los Angeles; and presented clinics at colleges across the US and in England, Chile, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.

Marc has taught students at all levels/ages for 30+ years. He received Yamaha Corporation of America’s prestigious Drum Set Education Legacy Award, and was named Artist-in-Residence at Jefferson Univ. Hospital’s Design Lab to research drumming and neuroscience and its potential use to help rehabilitate the physically disabled, emotionally challenged, and those with neurological or neurodevelopmental disorders.

Marc’s articles are published in leading music magazines and journals, including Modern Drummer Magazine, and Percussive Arts Society (PAS), and his podcasts and interviews on drumming, practice, learning, technique, and skill development based on his research are available on numerous websites including his own. He’s endorsed by Yamaha Drums, Zildjian Cymbals, Vic Firth Drum Sticks, Remo Drum Heads, Latin Percussion, and MONO Cases.

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