Big Beat: Brazilian Drumming

August 3 - August 14
Mon-Fri, 1pm - 4pm
JPER 0050 Section A Elementary Level only
$470
This course is offered by The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music

Focus on the rhythms, songs, and dance of Brazil. Learn to play the alfaia (bass drum), caixa (snare drum), abê (shaker), and gonguê (bell), and sing traditional Brazilian songs. In this highenergy course offered by The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, you explore the parallels between 400 year-old Maracatu rhythms and New Orleans grooves which helped shape jazz, funk, and R&B. At semester’s end, perform with musicians from Nation Beat, the international recording group. Instruments provided. (Elementary Level students who would like to take a morning class may register for Cartooning or Foundation Studio.)

Elementary students may take a morning class at Parsons choose from Cartooning or Foundation Studio. Elementary students in the full day program will have a supervised lunch hour.

Register for this course by mailing or faxing the Registration Form.
Both the Jazz and Parsons course codes should go in the Academy line and mark Elementary.

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