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  • 2.00 Credits

    Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:ILPD-235 Course Chair:D. Anderson Required of:None Electable by:All percussion principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description Further development of polyrhythmic concepts. Drum set articulation, sticking, phrasing, motion, and styles are related to concepts presented in ILPD-235.
  • 0.50 Credits

    Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:ILPD-211 Course Chair:D. Anderson Required of:None Electable by:All percussion principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description A contemporary approach to today's music utilizing linear time-feels and phrasing to strengthen technique, time, and ideas.
  • 0.50 Credits

    Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:ILPD-211 Course Chair:D. Anderson Required of:None Electable by:All percussion principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description Incorporating the rhythms of other cultures into jazz and rock music for drum set.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Credits:0.5 Prerequisites:ILPD-331 Course Chair:D. Anderson Required of:None Electable by:All Percussion Department principals Offered:Spring, Fall Description This course is a follow-up to Contemporary Electronic Percussion Lab. It delves into three new primary areas:1) Laptop/computer software applications of electronic percussion. The course begins with programming drum grooves in Propellerhead's Reason. Students learn to trigger sounds and samples in Reason (and other applications) with electronic percussion controllers.2) Electronic drum kit (i.e., modular kits such as the Roland V-Drums) applications of electronic percussion.3) Exploring electronic percussion options within as well as outside the realm of MIDI. By demonstrating the ways and means of processing acoustic drums and percussion sounds via the laptop, the course looks at audio and DSP options for electronic percussionists.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Credits:1 credit Prerequisites:ILPD-211 Course Chair:D. Anderson Required of:None Electable by:All percussion principals Offered:Spring, Fall Description Solutions to practical and logistical problems confronting the contemporary percussionist/drummer. Experimentation with alternative setups designed to meet the demands of today's contemporary music and the student's own creative requirements. Topics include new hardware solutions, coordination exercises, and practical musical and orchestrational choices. Various world music drumming traditions will be applied as catalysts in approaching alternative setups.
  • 0.50 Credits

    Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:ILPD-211 and ILPH-351 Course Chair:D. Anderson Required of:None Electable by:Drum set, total percussion, and hand percussion principals Offered:Spring, Fall Description This course is a practical application of traditional African rhythms and their application to drum set performance and their use in contemporary Afro-pop music. This course will examine many of the commonly used rhythmic concepts, metric meters, and an analysis of important Afro-pop artists such as Salif Keita (Mali), Baaba Maal (Senegal), Angelique Kidjo (Benin), King Sunny Ade (Nigeria), and Tabu Ley Rochereau (Zaire).
  • 0.50 Credits

    Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:ILPD-211 or by audition Course Chair:D. Anderson Required of:None Electable by:Drum set, hand percussion, and total percussion principals Offered:Spring, Fall Description This course develops integrated applications of all South American percussion concepts for the drum set. Topics include identification of various Brazilian, Venezuelan, Uruguayan, Peruvian, Colombian, and Argentinean musical instruments and drum set applications of all rhythms (both with and without a percussionist). Topics are examined from both traditional and nontraditional perspectives.
  • 0.50 Credits

    Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:ILPD-112 Course Chair:D. Anderson Required of:None Electable by:Drum set and total percussion principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description A drum lab which takes "groove" back to its roots through the music of New Orleans. Listening, analysis, and performance of many grooves from the New Orleans style will be followed with discussion of their influence on today's music. Students will learn to play a variety of grooves, as well as how to incorporate a sense of "feel" into playing.
  • 0.50 Credits

    Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:ILPD-211 Course Chair:D. Anderson Required of:All percussion principals Electable by:All percussion principals Offered:Spring, Fall Description Study of drum grooves found in contemporary pop music around the world, such as Nigerian ju-ju, Brazilian tropicalissimo, Latin hip-hop, and others. Students will recreate beats through study of transcriptions, recordings, and performances with tapes and sequences.
  • 0.50 Credits

    Credits:0.5 credit Prerequisites:ILPD-211 or by audition Course Chair:D. Anderson Required of:None Electable by:Drum set principals Offered:Spring, Summer, Fall Description This course is an in-depth exploration of the rhythmic jazz feel of straight note jazz, also known as the broken eighth-note jazz feel. The class will center on playing and performance by the participants in the class. The course material will be presented through demonstrations, recordings, videos, transcriptions, and handouts generated specifically for the course.
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