{"id":8923,"date":"2018-04-26T08:18:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T15:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/blog\/?p=8923"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:03:59","slug":"mark-guiliana-drum-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/mark-guiliana-drum-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Your Creativity On The Drumset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5A0fw7-HKYE\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>\u201cYou can\u2019t plan for the unknown, but you can prepare for the unknown\u201d.<\/em> \u2013 Mark Guiliana<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many musicians are afraid of the word &#8216;improvisation&#8217;. It can seem overwhelming to come up with creative, unique, and musical ideas in the moment. It might feel like there&#8217;s no solid, structured way to actually improve these skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concepts taught in today&#8217;s lesson can be broken down into four main categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">D<\/span>ynamics:<\/strong> The volume at which you play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R<\/span>ate:<\/strong> Also referred to as subdivision (eg. quarter, eighth, sixteenth notes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">O<\/span>rchestrations:<\/strong> Where on the instrument you play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">P<\/span>hrasing:<\/strong> Where in time you play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark believes that it&#8217;s better to have a select few ideas that you can mold to fit into any musical context opposed to a hundred ideas that you can&#8217;t change at all (if you can remember all of them in the first place).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By using the four powerful tools listed above, you can take any idea and adapt it to any musical context on the fly. The resulting options are limitless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch Mark take one theme and run it through the DROP gauntlet! Let&#8217;s see what he comes up with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Lesson Index<\/b>:<br>0:21 &#8211; Drum Solo 1<br>5:50 &#8211; Introduction<br>8:22 &#8211; About the lesson<br>10:30 &#8211; How do you start forming your own musical ideas?<br>13:12 &#8211; The four tools<br>18:34 &#8211; Running an idea through these tools<br>39:44 &#8211; Drum solo 2<br>47:07 &#8211; Beginner Tips<br>58:45 &#8211; Drum solo 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Mark:<\/strong><br>Mark Guiliana is a drummer, composer, and educator who has become recognized as one of the world&#8217;s leading drummers. He was chosen as Best Jazz Drummer in the Modern Drummer Readers Poll 2017, Best Modern Jazz Drummer award in 2018, and Downbeat dubbed him a Rising Star in its Critics Poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his own group &#8211; the Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet and electronica-minded Beat Music &#8211; Mark has recorded and\/or performed with a wide variety of artists such as David Bowie, Donny McCaslin, John Scofield, Matt Cameron, Meshell Ndegeocello, Lionel Loueke, Gretchen Parlato, and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mark Plays:<\/strong><br><a href=\"http:\/\/gretsch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gretsch Drums<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/sabian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sabian Cymbals<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/remo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Remo Drumheads<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/vicfirth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Vic Firth Drumsticks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Guiliana teaches how to be more creative on the drums in this full lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4038],"tags":[26,65,13,130,152,585,331],"class_list":["post-8923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drummers","category-full-lessons","tag-drum-beats","tag-drum-fills","tag-drum-lessons-2","tag-drum-solo","tag-free-drum-lessons","tag-remo","tag-vic-firth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8923"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36024,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions\/36024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}