Frame Drum Classes
Giving Birth to Ourselves Frame Drum Intensive Part 2, and Inanna Compositions
This coming year Inanna wants to dive deeper into
Layne’s 6 month curriculum, inviting you to become more proficient in the material that you have learned, and also to address material that we did not teach in the first segment. As we have shared with you, Layne’s rhythmic material inspired many of our Inanna frame drum compositions, thus each class we will include one or more pieces from the Inanna songbook, so that you can learn a composition and to inspire you to sing with your drums.
We are opening the class to anyone who has done the GBTO, with us or other teachers, and to those who have sufficient experience playing both tambourine and tar.
Each class session will be scheduled on a Saturday, from 10AM-1:00PM EST. You are not required to register for every class, but we do encourage your participation, as it will allow you to develop more mastery and ease in playing. The fee is $50 per class. However, If you pay using PayPal, credit or debit card we have to charge an extra $5. And there is a Venmo option to pay $50. Click here, and scroll to Continuing Frame Drum Studies and choose payment. Green Button-add to cart - $55 (Pp and any CC) or Venmo via Annegret -$50. Please email her for her address.
All classes will be held on zoom only, and recorded, so that if you cannot participate directly, you can still access the material.
Everyone needs to have their copies of the pdfs for Layne’s 6 month frame drum intensive, and we will forward the relevant pdfs from Inanna’s songbook each class. If you haven’t already done so, it can be really helpful to have a three ring binder for your pdfs.
The dates and content of this year’s studies are as follows:
Feburary 3: Processional Rhythms (inspired by Layne Redmond, Tommy Be, and Yousif Sheronick,) on Tambourine and Tar
February 24: Nubian variations, patterns in 3, Nubian clapping patterns, Inanna’s song Devotion, Tar
April 6: (Warm up, review, and jam with Nubian patterns, including clapping pattern,) Snaps, Kita takas (KTTK’s), Inanna’s song Madre Dea, (possibly Within/Without) Tar
May 18: Translucent Path, Moroccan 6/8, on Tambourine and Tar, Inanna’s version of Hymn to the Muse on Tar
June 22: Brazil! Bumba Meu Boi, Omulu, and Layne’s Brazilian patterns (not included in GBTO material, but we will send those pdfs), if there is time, intro to Laynes “Sunrise of Forever”: Tambourine
July TBA: Uma and Inanna’s Evolution 7 song, Tar
No Classes July and August
September 7: Odd time cycles: Patterns in 7, Inanna’s We Are One, and Evolution 7, Tambourine and Tar
October 5: Odd time cycles: Patterns in 5 and 10, Tambourine and Tar, Inanna’s Cosmic Beat and I Shall Find You
November 9: Odd time cycles: Patterns in 9, Celebration jam!