A Zoom Workshop with John Riley
Wed, Apr 07
|Zoom Online Session
We hope you'll join us on Wednesday 7th April for A Zoom Workshop with the incredible John Riley!


Time & Location
Apr 07, 2021, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM GMT+1
Zoom Online Session
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About the Event
John began playing drums at the age of eight, after receiving a snare drum as a gift. With the support, encouragement and patience of his parents, John and Mary Ann, he played in the school band and began drum lessons with a good local teacher, Tom Sicola. While under Tom's guidance, he gained control of the snare drum through work on the rudiments and reading. Eventually, he acquired a complete drumset and lessons expanded to include "beats of the day," coordination and reading studies for the drumset. At age twelve, John began playing in rock bands and heard his first jazz recordings, the soundtrack to The Gene Krupa Story and Max Roach's Conversation. Two years later, he played his first "professional" gig, which he obtained through an audition played over the telephone.
John began studying with Joe Morello in 1971, after meeting him at a drum symposium. John went on…
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