All Students are expected to bring their own instrument.

Snare Drum
Drummers will learn:
• Reading (basic note values to complex patterns. Score reading and writing)
• Rhythm (with and without sticking, syncopation and independence)
• Rudiments (beginner/intermediate)
• Advanced rudiments (applying rudiments to musical lines)
• Pipe band rhythms with background info and exercises for each (MSR and medley tunes)
• Tone and maintenance of the snare drum (bring your drum)
• Beginner to advanced solo or band drum scores
• Ensemble playing with the other sections

Tenor Drum
Tenor drummers will learn:
• Flourishing (four basic flourishes; all flourishes on EUSPBA recommended flourish symbol list)
• Music theory (note values, simple vs. compound time, dot and cut, rhythm patterns of different types of tunes and time signatures)
• Improving transitional flow between flourish and rhythm playing
• Tone and maintenance of the tenor drum (bring your drum)
• Beginner to advanced solo or band midsection scores
• Ensemble playing with the other sections

Snare Drum
Graham Brown began drumming in the autumn of 1991 at the age of nine. He started his drumming career as the Lead Drummer of the Milton Optimist Pipe Band, founded by his mother Gail. The band was very successful, winning the World Juvenile Championships in 1994, and the Grade 3 Worlds in 1997. After four years of playing Grade 1 in Ontario, Graham moved to Scotland to play with Jim Kilpatrick and the Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band in 2002. With Shotts Graham won two World Pipe Band Championships, three World Drum Corps Championships, and a total of 16 Major Drumming Championships. In 2007 he returned home to Canada and was named the Lead Drummer of the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police Pipe Band. The Peel corps are the 2010 North American Champions. In the Solo realm Graham has won the North American Championships at Maxville six times, the Agnew-Harrison Invitational five times, the Kansas City Gold Medal, and has been a finalist at the World Solo Drumming Championships. Graham teaches private lessons, workshops, and schools internationally. He is a certified judge, and sits on the Pipers and Pipe Band Society of Ontario’s Music Board.

 

Tenor Drum
Andrew Elliott started playing with the Grade One Peel Regional Police Pipe Band in 2001, where he continues to play today. Andrew has won all major awards in Ontario, including the Canadian, and North American Championships in solo tenor drumming on several occasions. Andrew is also a four time MHAF Gold Medal winner, which is considered to be the most prolific tenor and bass drumming contest in the world. Andrew was the 2008, 2009, and 2010 winner in the Gold Medal tenor drumming event, and in 2011 he went on to win another gold but this time, in the bass contest. Andrew teaches bands and workshops across Canada, and the United States, and is also the owner of ACE Percussion.