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Recreational Music Making

What is RMM

"Recreational Music Making refers to playing musical instruments alone or in a group without the goals of mastery or performance."

What this is simply saying is that Recreational Music Making is about the experience of making music more than it is about the outcome. Recreational Music Making should provide a fun, inclusive musical experience for everyone, and the RMM philosophy emphasizes that over the philosophy of mastering an instrument or instruments on one's way towards a performance-based goal.

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Programs

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FitRHYTHMS

FitRhythms offers a complete fitness package that includes:

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Kalani Music

Kalani is a keynote presenter, speaker, clinician, performer, author, and educator.

Remo HealthRHYTHMS

Our goal is to establish group drumming as an integral "whole person" component for use in conventional healthcare and wellness environments.

The Piano Guy Piano Teacher Certification Program

Continuing Education for the benefit of you, your studio, and most of all, your students.

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Upbeat Drum Circles

UpBeat Drum Circles was founded on the principle that music should be valued not only as a mode of entertainment, but as an active methodology for achieving change in individuals, teams and communi

Vintage Music Circles

Now, more than ever, we find ourselves seeking ways to build community with an intention to serve, to inspire and to reach beyond what separates us.

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Hands-On! Drumming Drum Circle Facilitator Training Workshops

Jim Greiner, since 1980, has led drum circles and other interactive rhythm based programs for thousands of corporations, communities, music stores, schools, therapeutic centers and private groups

Drum Circle Music

Drum Circle Music (DCM) training programs include fun-filled days that are packed with tools, techniques, and fun and enriching activities you can use right away.

Facilitators

Drum Circle Music

Drum Circle Music (DCM) training programs include fun-filled days that are packed with tools, techniques, and fun and enriching activities you can use right away.

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Hands-On! Drumming - Drum Circle Facilitator Training Workshops

Jim Greiner, since 1980, has led drum circles and other interactive rhythm based programs for thousands of corporations, communities, music stores, schools, therapeutic centers and private groups

FitRHYTHMS

FitRhythms offers a complete fitness package that includes:

Remo HealthRHYTHMS

Our goal is to establish group drumming as an integral "whole person" component for use in conventional healthcare and wellness environments.

The Piano Guy Piano Teacher Certification Program

A comprehensive solution for teaching lead sheet based improvisational piano.

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UpBeat Drum Circles

UpBeat Drum Circles was founded on the principle that music should be valued not only as a mode of entertainment, but as an active methodology for achieving change in individuals, teams and communi

Village Music Circles

John Scalici

John Scalici is a nationally recognized drum circle facilitator, speaker, musician, clinician, and master teaching artist. He has been featured in DRUM!

News and Research

Research institute studying music, stress relief - Daily American Online (subscription)

Daily American Online (subscription), PA - Jan 30, 2008

Pop songs inspire children to play instruments - Telegraph.co.uk

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1575833/Pop-songs-inspire-children-to-play-instru

Using Music to Lift Depression’s Veil - New York Times

... a not-for-profit group that reviews health care issues.

Pop songs inspire children to play instruments - Telegraph.co.uk

Schools should use pop songs to inspire enthusiasm for playing musical instruments, a study published today says. ...

Lessons provide mentoring, lifelong pursuit - Greater Milwaukee Today

Karen Roll wishes she would have learned to play an instrument as a child. "It really is a special gift when you can play an instrument.

Huckabee's off-key political bass - Los Angeles Times

But it is not a glamorous instrument; many nonmusicians cannot even hear what the bassist is playing, confusing the general muddle of the bass with the ...
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/13/

Violinist Joshua Bell may be on the young side but... - Kansas City Star

Seeing violinist Joshua Bell onstage with his grunge mop-top and puffy, untucked shirt, you might think he’s the hippest thing in classical music. ...

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The NAMM Foundation Searching for ‘Best Communities for Music ... - Business Wire (press release)

The ninth annual “Best Communities for Music Education” (BCME) survey, sponsored by the NAMM Foundation, is searching for school districts that support ...
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