| Drum and Percussion Classes |
Study drums and percussion in the privacy of your home. Mark offers lessons to students of all ages from beginner to advanced levels. The classes are 'tailor-made' to support and enhance each students music goals. Drum classes are offered in Latin, jazz, rock, pop, funk and fusion genres.
Mark features classes in afro-Cuban percussion for conga, bongo, timbales, shekere and afro-Brasilian percussion for pandeiro, tanborim and tam tam.
Please contact Mark at (561)789-4114
Mark has been teaching drums and percussion for over 30 years including a drum instructor position with the Yamaha Popular Music School in Tokyo, Japan. He teaches all levels in the jazz, funk, rock, pop, afro-Cuban and afro-Brasilian styles. Mark plays Drum-set, Congas, Bongos, Timbales, Djembe, Doumbek, Pandeiro, Jyoumon Drums (from Japan) and many other percussion instruments from around the world.
Mark’s drumming and percussion work in the jazz, fusion, Latin, folk and pop styles can be found on several recording labels including Sony Japan, RCA Victor, Toshiba EMI and Pony Canyon. He has appeared at many national and international jazz festivals including the Mount Fuji Jazz Festival, Japan and the Newport Jazz Festival. Mark's drum/percussion playing has been featured throughout Asia on CD recordings, movie sound tracks and television commercials. Mark’s percussion is also featured on the 2000 Summer Olympic theme song and he appears on recordings featuring well known artists including Don Alias, Delfeayo Marsalis and Don Byron.
Mark has a Bachelor of Music Degree in Jazz Composition and Arranging from the Berklee College of Music. Classical percussion and music education studies at the Boston Conservatory of Music. Contemporary percussion and percussion ensemble studies at the College of Saint Rose.
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| Eros playing congas |
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| Eros with Georgie on congas |
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| Warming-up for the show... |
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Lessons In Your Home - Music Teachers Who Come To Your Home Or School - A family’s best choice for Fun in-home music lessons, Lessons In Your Home is a Music School without walls. They believe that our lessons are most appreciated in your home. Your home is naturally nurturing. The teacher feels more like family than a teacher. Your home becomes the conservatory, and the student becomes a part of a musical family. They teach all instruments: piano, guitar, violin, voice, drums, strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion.
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| Mark De Rose, Drums & Percussion Instructor |
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GUITAR CENTER STUDIOS, Coconut Creek
Mark is currently teaching private and group lessons in drums and percussion:
Monday~Wednesday 3:30pm - 9:00pm
Thursday 3:00pm - 9:00pm
Saturday 11:30am - 4:00pm
For more information or to set-up a lesson appointment with Mark, please contact the GC Studios:
(954) 973-7163
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| MDR Drummer's Circle, Japan |
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The MDR Drummer's Circle, Tokyo, was started in 1995 by drummer/percussionist Mark DeRose. The Drummer's Circle includes the 'Kid's Percussion Club', high school and college clubs, amature performers and semi-professional players clubs and professional music teachers clubs. Our curriculum includes 'ethnomusicology' as it applies to drums from Asia, Africa, America, South America, Cuba, the Caribbean and Mexico. Lectures include basic, intermediate and advanced techniques, rhythm studies, percussion ensemble studies and multi-ethnic percussion ensemble performance.
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| MDR Drum Circle, Tokyo |
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| MDR DC J-Text 01 |
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| MDR DC J-Text 02 |
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| Professional Teacher's Seminar |
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| Jyoumon Taiko Workshop 01 |
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| Jyoumon Taiko Workshop 02 |
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| Djembe Workshop |
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| MDR Kid's Percussion Club |
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| The Kid's Club |
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| Bongos |
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| Darubuka |
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| Conga drums |
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| Shakers |
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| Talking drum |
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| Tokyo City Concert 'DANOBI' & The 'Kid's Club' |
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| Kid's Percussion Club, Japan |
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E-mail us for student enrollment and membership details.
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| MDR Kid's Club Membership Information |
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