A short excerpt from the 1hr online drum workshop #04 (Afro-Cuban 6/8) which is available in full at www.busterbirch.co.uk/recordingsofdrumworkshops.
Learn to play music on the drums!
Online drum workshops covering classic styles live on Zoom with award-winning drummer and educator Buster Birch.
These sessions are not a “hang” where we sit and chat about drumming (nothing wrong with that), these are classes where you can play your drums and learn new techniques and styles from an experienced professional drummer.
Online Drum Workshops are well structured, planned and prepped lessons from a highly experienced teacher with free download resources to help you learn, including notated handouts, original play-along backing tracks and Spotify play lists of selected listening.
A beat is not a style!
Don’t just learn a beat…
Learn to understand the music you are playing.
Learn the ingredients of the music and the rhythms, and how they fit together.
Learn to understand your role in the music and what is required of you from the other musicians.
Gain confidence from knowing what you are doing and knowing when to do it.
Each session will equip you with the fundamental skills and knowledge to confidently play a simple part in the style studied and a good foundation to build on, should you wish to take it further. Series 1 includes: Funk, Mambo, Jazz (Time & Comping), Afro-Cuban 6/8, Bossa Nova, Second Line, Shuffles and Samba.
When you complete the check out process you will receive a PDF download with a link to the zoom meeting, a link to download the workshop resources and a link to a Spotify play list of selected listening.
Book now to download your resources and get prepared for the workshop.
All workshops cost £6.00 and last approximately 1hr.
Payments accepted by VISA in any currency.
All eight workshops in Series 1 now open for booking!
Click here to sign up…
Buster Birch is an award-winning drummer from London who has worked with many of the UK’s finest jazz musicians. He has an honours degree in music from the University of London and a post-graduate diploma in jazz performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He also studied at the Drummers Collective in New York City and privately with Jim Chapin and Joe Morello (of The Dave Brubeck Quartet).
He has performed at virtually every major concert hall and jazz club in London as well as major international festivals, toured in over 30 countries and recorded over 30 CDs. He has played for The Royal Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and deputised on West End shows. He is the drummer for ARQ (Alison Rayner Quintet), winners of the All Parliamentary Award for “Best UK Jazz Ensemble 2018”.
He was a professorial member of the jazz faculty at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music for seven years where he taught improvisation, musicianship, jazz repertoire and jazz history classes. He has also lectured at The Royal Academy of Music, The Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Middlesex University.
He is director of the UK’s largest and longest-running jazz summer school for adult learners and co-founder and lead tutor for the award-winning BYMT Jazz School for children.
Since 2018 he has published 21 books on jazz improvisation. He has his own critically acclaimed show “Buster plays Buster” featuring his own jazz quartet playing live to screenings of classic Buster Keaton movies for which he arranged and scored all of the music.
