6 Week Drum class with Ken Anoff

Dates: Thursday Jan. 22nd to Feb.26th

Time: Weekly, 7:00 - 8:15 p.m.

Cost: 6 weeks, in advance: $100

Individual class: $20 

This 6 week series of classes is designed to increase your enjoyment of drumming by deepening your understanding of rhythm and learning proper techniques. This will increase your confidence and provide a stimulating mental work-out as well, as the hand coordination exercises stimulate both hemispheres of the brain. By learning correct drumming technique, you will experience much less fatigue while playing, and at the same time get a much improved tone from whatever drum you are using. This series of classes will be equally effective for a total beginner as well as an advanced player. The activities we will do are designed to challenge each person at their own level, so that we may enjoy playing together and learn from each other as well. You may bring your own drum, however, drums will also be available for those who would like to borrow one.

This class is intended for teenage through adult. 

No prior experience is necessary. 

Ken Anoff  is a master percussionist and music educator with 30 years of musical training that has University of Maryland - graduating with honors andawards for outstanding achievements in music -where he subsequently taught for eight years as an adjunct professor and assistant to the head of the percussion department. He also collaborated extensively with the dance department, accompanying dance classes and performances and teaching rhythmic training courses to dance students. Ken then worked for several years in the Maryland public school system, offering special programs on world music to students of all levels with his group Nada Brahma. An excursion to Guatemala interested him deeply in Latin music and culture, and he spent over two years in Central and South America, studying the language and music and performing with the folk ensemble Sol Latino. His journey then took him to Japan, where for two years he taught and developed the percussion curriculum at the Fukuoka School of Music, a technical college in southern Japan. He continued three more years in Japan, working with a large number of Latin groups from many diverse countries. Ken has also studied Indian, Middle Eastern and African music and is a specialist on the Middle Eastern goblet drum, the doumbek. He also plays drum set, as well as Latin and African percussion. Ken has performed countless times and has recorded close to 20 CD’s with groups from all over the world. For more information and to see and hear video and audio examples of his work, please visit: www.timetodrum.com