**Open level – Brazilian, West African, Cuban hand drumming and more**
In these short courses all are welcome to explore the world of hand drums.
Enjoy the spiritual beats of Brazilian Atabaque, West African Djembe, Cuban Conga technique and lush Bahian Timbau flavours. There’ll be a bit of everything! This course leads to a performance outing with Suntou Susso on Saturday 27th May (free entry for full course participants).
Whether you want to brush up your technique, learn to play along to pop tunes, explore deep rooted cultural music forms or just have fun playing in a group, then this is the place for you.
This is a series of open level courses for complete beginners to more advanced players. Everyone is welcome and all equipment is provided. All we ask for is your commitment to learning and supporting others.
6:30-7:30pm | Technique / Warm up
7:30pm – 8:30pm | Grooves
8:30pm – 9pm | Jam it out / cool down
For those that want to take their playing to the next level you can also take your new rhythmic skills into the regular ensemble classes and rehearsals as part of the Global Grooves Bloco and eventually join us on the streets and fields at some of biggest Carnivals and festivals in the UK. Or if there is a particular style you would like to focus on you’ll be looped into our extensive international network of courses, tutors, performers and study trips.
Global Grooves Bloco Members have FREE access to all Practical Hand Drumming courses and classes. Please use your discount code at checkout (login to view your discount here). For those that can, we encourage donations from our Bloco family.
We would love our courses to be accessible to anyone who would like to have the opportunity to take part.
If you would like to speak with a member of the team about an access requirement you may have, please complete the form here. Please do feel welcome to strike up a private conversation with us, we want to include everyone who has the passion to participate.
Commitment
We encourage participants to join via a monthly subscription to get the most out of the course. If access means you might attend less frequently then there is a pay-per-class option that might be just for you. And if costs are prohibitive, you can also pay what you can. From just £1 per session.
Subscriptions include:
We are pleased to announce our first study courses that also include special tickets to intimate cultural performances from two of our West and South East African musical brothers.
Course 1: 27th April – 1st June including a study visit to a performance outing @ The Vale with Suntou Susso (Gambian Kora Griot and his band – free entry for full course participants).
Thursday evenings 6:30pm – 9pm…
…then Saturday 27th 7:30pm for an intimate performance evening with Susso flying in from The Gambia. Tickets for the show are free as part of this study block.
Course 2: 8th June – 13th July
Thursday evenings 6:30pm – 9pm
Course 3: 7th September– 19th October leading to a performance outing with Gasper Nali (Malawian musical phenomenon plus support – free entry for full course participants).
Thursday evenings 6:30pm – 8:30/9pm….
….And join us on Thursday 19th for an intimate performance evening with Gasper flying in from Malawi. Tickets for the show are free as part of this study block.
Costs:
£50/£30 | Full Course
£10/£7:50 | Pay-per-class
Bloco Members | £FREE
Those with annual or monthly subscriptions to the Global Grooves Bloco have free access to all Practical Hand Drumming courses and classes. Please use your discount code at checkout (login to view your discount here). For those that can, we encourage donations from our Bloco family. For those that can we encourage donations from our Bloco family.
A limited number of concessions and bursaries are available. Please get in touch with Global Grooves if you have any questions or requirements regarding our subscriptions. We would love our courses to be accessible to anyone who would like to have the opportunity to take part.
If you would like to speak with a member of the team about an access requirement you may have, please complete the form here. Please do feel welcome to strike up a private conversation with us, we want to include everyone who has the passion to participate.
Tutors: Regular Tutor Leon Patel plus guests from time to time.
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