Let's Drum! - Metronome Manipulation: Improving Your Time

Do you use Dr. Beat or a metronome as a crutch? If so, then this session is for you. In this session, we will focus on drumming while using a metronome as a tool by breaking our dependence on hearing the beat. In addition, we will help you improve your personal time, controlling silence as well as becoming a better musician. Techniques will be shared throughout the session to highlight the importance of getting to the "and" of the beat while moving to more advanced shifts such as playing with stock grids.

Hosted by Aaron Kavelman

Aaron Kavelman is a percussion educator, clinician, performer and composer who grew up listening and performing jazz alongside his father, an accomplished jazz pianist. Growing up in a musical family, Aaron watched his four older sisters in the high school band program. Inspired by the local marching bands, Aaron would tape a set of…