Greiner-Community Drumming for Health & Happiness (VHS)

Community Drumming for Health and Happiness with Jim Greiner is a fun, exciting and comprehensive video showing drummers of all levels how to join in the passion and spirit of individual and community drumming. Jim demonstrates fundamental techniques and patterns for a variety of hand percussion instruments.

Community Drumming is divided into two parts.

Part 1 - 60 minutes
This segment features basic to intermediate level instruction on the following:

traditional and contemporary techniques for congas and other hand percussion

how to play relaxed and achieve clear and consistent sounds and patterns

building stamina

listening and communicating withing a group and "finding the groove"

Part 2 - 23 minutes
This segment incorporates the elements taught in Part 1 and allows the viewer to play along with a 50 person community drum circle for an extended period of time.

Jim Greiner is a nationally known percussionist, educator and drum circle leader based in Santa Cruz, CA. He has travelled throughout the United States as a performer, as a clinician and endorser for LP music group, as a percussion teacher and as a leader of team-building, motivational drumming events for corporations, conferences and commuinities through his company Hands-On!