Live-Studio-Education
with Michael Iannantuoni ~ Canopus Drum Artist
Meet
Michael Iannantuoni
As a highly in-demand drummer, Michael has worked with numerous artists in the jazz and contemporary music fields including award-winning smooth jazz Guitarist Steve Oliver, Scott Tarulli, Tim Boggert, Jeff Berlin, Baron Browne, Stan Strickland, Tavares, The Platters, Soul City, Lourdes Pita, Faith Sollaway, Kerri Powers, Birdie and Donna Hammers to name a few!
Michael attended The Berklee College of Music and graduated from the Percussion Institute of Technology in Hollywood, CA in 1985. Some of Michael’s mentors and teachers include David Garibaldi (Tower Of Power) renowned jazz educators Alan Dawson, Gary Chaffee, Steve Houghton, Ralph Peterson, Bob Gollotti, and Casey Scheuerell.
Teaching and education continue to be of great importance to Michael and he has written for Rhythm Magazine, and Modern Drummer magazine and has written two drum education books available on the site here—The Contemporary Drummer & Unlocking Your Creative Potential.
Michael’s Kit
Canopus RFM Drums 20 12 14
Remo heads, Funch cymbals
Vic Firth double-glazed 5A wood
LP Percussion
Live Sessions
Drum lesson Videos
Instruction Books
Why Buy Instruction Books?
If you’re looking to find your voice and create your style, this is the book for you.
There will come a time when doing the ordinary or finding inspiration from the same method books will take you down a dead end.
If you’re like many drummers trying to find their voice…DARE TO BE DIFFERENT!
It will take insight, creativity, and patience but you first must know where to start and where your result will take you in defining the music you’re most interested in.
There are thousands of drummers out there…. FIND YOUR VOICE!
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Purchase CD
Contemporary Fusion- In this CD you will find some recognizable gems from the past with a different interpretation of the original recordings that range from straight-ahead jazz to Latin jazz and funk. Sit back and enjoy the groove with some of the finest players in New England!
For those interested in private lessons, in person or via the Internet, lessons will cover some content from the new book depending on your level of playing and reading. Keeping the rudiments (the language & sticking) will be a focus for all students as there are countless ways to apply these to our study.
Developing time, feels, ostinatos, soloing, grooves, playing in all styles, and some basic history of those who have come before us and the roles they may have played in getting us to this point in the art of drumming.
Instruction Books
Unlocking Your Creative Potential
A guide through the creative processMy new book deals primarily with melody allied with rhythm to create a very diverse time feel while still implementing the basic melody idea.
The ideas will explore right or left-hand lead, open-handed techniques, and ostinatos and give you many different options when going through these exercises. The book will help create a pathway to develop your voice on the instrument as you work through the many exercises presented in the book.
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Contemporary Drummer
- This book has some transcriptions from some of the most important drummers of the 90s and up including Steve Smith, Jeff Porcaro, John Robinson, Steve Gadd, and many more.
- Also available to you is discography, so you can find these recordings to help develop the proper feel and context these grooves were originally intended.
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