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Patrick Graham offers private lessons, group workshops and demonstrations geared to beginners, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Drawing on close to 10 years of experience as a professional musician, Patrick customizes his teaching to suit the specific needs of the student. Students are encouraged to develop their own musical voice.

Teaching material includes:

  • Rhythmic development, with or without instruments, utilizing vocal rhythms, walking and clapping exercises.
  • Percussion techniques on instruments such as various hand drums, frame drums, the Irish bodhran, Japanese taiko and percussion, as well as multi-percussion set-ups. Lessons focus on the exploration of both traditional and non-traditional techniques.
  • An approach to improvisation, with or without instruments.


For more details regarding these activities, contact Patrick directly.

Visit Patrick's online Bodhran Lesson at www.percuweb.ca/en/documentation/areas/europe/bodhran_lesson.html

RHYTHM AROUND US

Patrick also offers a series of workshops through the Québec government's Culture in the Schools Program. The workshop, called Rhythm Around Us, is suitable for all levels of primary and secondary school students and is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and Communications.

The objective of the workshop is to encourage an awareness of rhythm not only in a musical context but also through an active awareness of the rhythms found in the world around us.

Students are engaged in short listening exercises and discuss various aspects of the rhythmic nature of the world. Students also join in a segment of rhythmic games and vocal exercises drawn from South-Indian and Japanese drumming emphasizing the inner sense of rhythm that everyone possesses. Rhythm in music is introduced through discussion and hands-on explorations of percussion instruments such as various frame-drums and tambourines, shakers and bells, as well as more exotic instruments such as the Japanese taiko.

For more information, please click on the links below, and contact Patrick directly.

Culture in the Schools- Program  
http://www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/programme/culture-schools.htm

Rhythm Around Us flyer 

Rhythm Around Us doc

 
 
 
 
LES RHTHMES QUI NOUS ENTOURENT
 
Cet atelier offert par Patrick Graham initie les jeunes aux rythmes qui les entourent, qu'ils soient ou non musicaux. Ils découvrent d'abord la nature rythmique du monde.
 
Après un court exercice d'écoute où ils peuvent entendre et sentir le rythme cardiaque ou une autre pulsation, ils posent leurs questions. L'artiste présente ensuite le rythme musical et en discute avec les jeunes. Ils explorent différents instruments de percussion d'ici et d'ailleurs : tambours à cadre, tambours de basque, hochets, cloches, tambour métallique et taiko japonais. Puis, en groupes, les élèves participent à des jeux de rythmes : vocalises, bruits de pas et battements de mains leur font découvrir que le sens du rythme est inhérent à tout être humain.

 
Pour en savoir plus, s.v.p. cliquez ci-dessous et contactez Patrick.
 

 

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