Percussion Lessons Middletown

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Percussions Lessons

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Your Percussion teacher at Newington Music is Mike Montgomery, who studied percussion at The Hart School with renowned timpanist and educator Alexander Lepak. Your percussion instruction starts with the basics including the correct grip and fulcrum for the best control and power. The student will be taught to play and read the essential rudiments, including rolls, flams, paradiddles and more. When studying the drum set, we will learn beats of different styles, and develop independence between your feet and hands to open up your creativity while we teach you beats, fills, and solos for jazz and rock drumming.

Mallet Percussion

We also teach students mallet percussion such as marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, and orchestra bells. We have a xylophone in the studio and can give you all of the techniques you’ll need to be a confident mallet percussion player.

Timpani Lessons

timpani lessons
If you are interested in learning timpani, we will give you the best training around. We’ll show you tuning the timps, planning your tuning for a piece, proper mallet technique to get the best sound from the instrument. We have timpani on‑site at our studio.

Hand Percussion

Newington Music has a variety of hand percussion instruments in the studio. We can teach you techniques to play tambourine, triangle, castanets, bongos, temple blocks, cow bells and more!

Latin, African, Caribbean, and Afro-Cuban Drum & Percussion Lessons

We can teach you how to play drums and percussion instruments in many styles including Rumba, Samba, Bossa nova, Cha Cha, Calypso, Conga de Comparsa, Son, Mambo, Soca, Reggae, Salsa, Latin jazz, Songo and more. These styles and techniques can be taught with various instruments from our studio such as Congas, Bongos, Timbales, Cajón, Guiros, Maracas, Claves, Axatse, Cabasa, and Drum Set.

Music Lessons Middletown

Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state, 16 miles (26 kilometers) south of Hartford. In 1650, it was incorporated as a town under its original Native American name, Mattabeseck. It received its present name in 1653. Middletown was included within Hartford County upon its creation on May 10, 1666. In 1784, the central settlement was incorporated as a city distinct from the town. Both were included within newly formed Middlesex County in May 1785. In 1923, the City of Middletown was consolidated with the Town, making the city limits extensive.

The land on the western bank of the Connecticut River where Middletown now lies was home to the Mattabesett Native Americans (also spelled Mattabesec, Mattabeseck, and Mattabesek); the area they inhabited—now Middletown and the surrounding area—was named after them. At the time the first European settlers arrived in the region, the Mattabesetts were a part of the group of tribes in the Connecticut Valley, under a single chief named Sowheag.

Give us a call for more information about Home/towns Music Lessons in Middletown Connecticut.