Video/DVD: Community Drumming for Health and Happiness
with Jim Greiner

Distributed by LP Music Group and Warner Bros. Music

'Community Drumming for Health and Happiness with Jim Greiner' is a fun, exciting, and comprehensive way for drummers of all levels of experience, including none at all, to join in the passion and spirit of drum circle gatherings. It is for people who want to play alone or within groups and shows how to create a drum circle ensemble, as well as demonstrating fun and easy ways to add new elements to an existing drum circle. The video/DVD was shot in a lush meadow overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Monterey Bay Area of California with four state-of-the-art Beta video cameras, one mounted on a 30-foot boom on tracks. The sound is 24-track digital for a clear, rich reproduction of all the drums and hand percussion. "Jim Greiner's video is a success! The production is top notch. Greiner has a friendly, infectious personality and does as a great job of explaining and leading. It's an uplifting scene that shows how easily people can be drawn into the irresistible appeal of group drumming! ... actually allows a home viewer to get a true taste of community drumming." -Drum! magazine

"Community Drumming for Health and Happiness with Jim Greiner" is 83 minutes long and consists of two sections:

Section 1:
60 minutes of one-on-one and small class instruction on conga drums, shekere, clave, cowbells, and maracas for beginning to intermediate level drummers. These instruments are explored in depth, including playing techniques and patterns, variations and improvising, history, tuning, and maintenance. This section covers hand drums, hand percussion instruments and creating small ensembles by putting the interlocking patterns together.

One on one instruction		Small ensemble class

Section 2:
23 minutes of a 50-person drum circle using the instruments, techniques, patterns, and variations taught in Section 1. This allows the viewer to play along with the group for an extended period of time and get deeper into the instruments, the rhythms and the experience itself.

Large drum circle Section

"Greiner presents the basics of community drumming in a relaxed, down-to-earth environment that people from all walks of life can understand and enjoy".
-Modern Drummer Magazine

The DVD also includes additional sections that contain photos of Jim's corporate, community, school, therapeutic and private drumming programs.

Community Drumming for Health & Happiness is available in VIDEO in VHS-NTSC (U.S.) and VHS-PAL (Europe) formats (limited supplies still available) and DVD through music stores that carry Latin Percussion Instruments and Warner Bros. Music Publications.. The DVD or VIDEO can also be ordered by the following method:

Send a check or money order for $24.95 (includes all shipping and handling within U.S.) to:

Jim Greiner
2745 Daubenbiss Ave.
Soquel, CA 95073

 

Orders from outside the U.S. are welcome! Shipping expenses will be calculated and added to basic cost of $19.95

 

Thank You!

 

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NEWS FLASH!

Jim Greiner' Community Drumming DVD Voted Best Percussion Video By Drum! Magazine Readers

Jim's DVD, Community Drumming For Health & Happiness was voted Best Percussion Instruction Video of 2004 in a recent Drum! Magazine Readers' Poll. Drum! Magazine is a consumer and trade periodical that reaches drummers and the drumming industry worldwide.

"I am extremely honored to be singled out by Drum! Magazine readers in this way!", Greiner states. "This award further inspired me to continue to bring the enormous physical, mental and emotional benefits of drumming to people worldwide."

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