One of the primary functions of grooveKSQ is to support independent musicians and artists. We are pleased to announce the first two performers of the second season grooveLIVE, which is a high quality video stream you can watch right here at the website, on our Facebook page, or on our YouTube channel.
Season Two of grooveLIVE will occur on the following dates:
January 27, 2020
February 10, 2020
February 24, 2020
March 10, 2020
March 22, 2020
April 6, 2020
A couple of adjustments from the pilot episodes we ran last year: the livestreams are moved to Monday nights, right before Monday Night Football, with a 7:30pm start and a 30 minute program. You’ll notice that the second event in March falls on Sunday, March 22, 2020. There will be much more detail about that event as we get closer. Expect an announcement right after Christmas 2019.
Our first two performers are both excellent:
Paul Wilkinson (Photo Credit Ron Adelberg Photgraphy)
Nicole Zell and Chris Sprousta
One thing that surprises people about grooveKSQ is that our students aren’t just kids or high school students. In fact, quite a few adults and experienced players drop in to work on specific skills, or have a chops session (basically an intense rudimental workout to improve speed/dexterity), or just play double drums with me and have fun.
Meet Bob.
Just in time for the Holidays, new gear available at our new online store! The perfect gift for those people in your life who are artistically minded. New products are being added as well.
A recent article caught our attention, and that was a clinical study of the enhancements in brain activity and development of drummers. Yes, drummers specifically were studied, rather than all musicians. Typically you see a more generalized study group from across all instruments.
To paraphrase the conclusion of the study, students who are trained drummers from an early age develop more communication structures across the corpus callosum, which is the structure that separates the right and left hemispheres of the brain. The right side of your brain tends to control your artistic and creative ability, and your left side of your brain controls your analytical ability. Drummers who start training early can more effectively simultaneously engage both their right side and left sides of their brains across the board.
One of my friends from back in the Crossmen days dropped by today to improvise a bit… this is a long video, but this is how ideas are developed…by exploration.
