LMY0066 - Groove Makers – Learn the Beat!
205323
Delivery Options
Youth In-Person
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Course Description
Discover your inner drummer! In this fun and interactive class for younger students, we explore rhythm using djembes, bongos, shakers, and other hand percussion instruments. Students will learn how to create grooves, keep steady time, and play together as a team. Each session builds toward a group jam where everyone becomes part of the beat. No prior experience required — just energy and curiosity!
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Petros Dragoumis is a multi-instrumentalist and multicultural professional musician, instructor, and author with over 35 years of experience. Throughout his international career he has performed, recorded, and collaborated within many different aspects of the music industry, such as live concerts, recording sessions, productions, TV shows, workshops, etc. As a performer, his music is influenced by Greek, Ethnic, as well as the Afro-American Jazz culture, with emphasis on odd meters and exotic scales. Petros has studied at the Macedonian Conservatory, the Bass Collective of New York, the Rotterdam Conservatory Codarts, and Arizona State University. His instructors included John Patitucci, Lincoln Goines, Mike Pope, and Matt Garrison. Petros is also the author of several music textbooks including instructional methods for bass guitar, guitar, and bouzouki, as well as music theory. Petros resides in Chicago and is involved in various music projects while teaching at Harper College and being the co-director of Odeion School of Music in Skokie.