Essential Drumming Skills for your Clinical Practice with Carolyn Koebel

This workshop will offer you a quick tune-up on basic djembe-style playing techniques for bass, tone, and slap, as well as an overview of frame drums and mixed hand percussion. Powerful, clear, technique offers a strong foundation for the use of percussion in clinical settings. You will have the ability to facilitate sessions musically as your skill sets increase.

​Your music will be more motivating and engaging, leading to more desirable clinical outcomes. Increasing your rhythmic vocabulary will allow you to connect with a broader range of clients whose musical tastes may span multiple genres. You will learn the basic theory and construct of how to organize your hands, or handedness, in order to play a stable, predictable rhythmic ostinato that will allow you to create satisfying accompaniment patterns with which you can successfully add your voice to accompany songs in fresh ways. 

Drums are naturally appealing to clients with a broad range of abilities, and we have the capacity to adapt and customize our rhythmic interventions in order to be as challenging or as inclusive as necessary to meet our clients where they are at.

The workshop will be conducted in English.


Date/ October 21, 2017（Saturday）
Time/ 1900 - 2130
Venue/ FullHOUSE 
Unit A-B, 10/F, Por Mee Factory Building, 500 Castle Peak Road,
Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon (九龍青山道500號百美工業大廈十樓A-B室)

Quota/ 10 participants
Fee/ HKD 390 
Registration/
1. Complete registration here
2. Bank-in to HSC #789-286879-883 [Institute for Creative Arts Therapy (HK)]
3. Whatsapp bank-in receipt to +852 6510-9405 or email to [email protected]
*You will receive an email reply confirming your registration*

Note/
1. Participants are encouraged to bring 1-2 small hand held percussive instruments to the workshop. 
2. Attendance certificate will be given to attendees at the end of the workshop.
3. This workshop will be conducted in English.
4. ICAT(HK) has been approved as one of the CPD activity organizers under the Voluntary Continuing Professional Development Scheme for Registered Social Workers. Attendees who are registered social workers will be awarded for 2.5 CPD points.

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Carolyn Koebel, MM, MT-BC, holds degrees of distinction in percussion and music therapy. She has traveled and studied world percussion traditions from West Africa, Turkey, Japan, Brazil and the Americas.

She is a co-founder of the music therapy drumming training initiative in the United States and has given multiple concert tours throughout mainland China since 2013. She is an adjunct professor of music therapy at Western Michigan University and St. Mary of the Woods College.

​She has released more than 30 recordings of diverse musical projects. She currently works in the hospice setting, with at-risk youth, the elderly, and with adults with developmental disabilities.

Visit www.carolynkoebel.com to learn more.