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Zach Field Drum Studios was started in 1999 in West Newbury, MA. After many years of giving lessons in West Newbury, the studio grew to capacity and needed more space and more instructors. In March of 2008, Zach Field Drum Studios moved to the Newburyport location where there was more space for the studio to grow.

The studio has four drumset rooms and an ensemble room. Each drumset room is equipped with two complete drumsets, one for the teacher and one for the student. The drum rooms have computers in them that enables the teachers to access the music program, Rhapsody. Rhapsody is a web-based program that allows the teachers to access millions of artists and songs, instantly, www.rhapsody.com. The rooms are also equipped with an isolation headphone system that allows the teacher and the student to play along with songs and still hear the music over the volume of the drums.
Lessons at ZFDS consists of a well rounded education covering rudiments, snare drum pieces, reading exercises, melodic percussion studies, improvisation, funk/rock/jazz/latin studies and also learning music that the students are interested in. Many times throughout the year, the studio puts together an ensemble to perform in the community.

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Kids will play hand drums, shakers, woodblocks, drumset, mini steel drums…etc. They will get to work on playing as a group, individually if they would like, some call and response and they will also get to record and listen back to what they played. The main thing is that they have fun!!

Next session starts the week of April 9nd, 2012.

Class days and times:
Mondays: 9:00 am
Tuesdays:10:00am
Fridays: 12:30 and 1:15pm

Please contact studio for sign up and more info!! 6 weeks, $85.  Limited to 10 per class.

Owner and instructor graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell with a bachelors degree in music performance. Aside from teaching and managing ZFDS, Zach was the percussion director throughout the Pentucket Regional School District for 12 years where he started the percussion program in 1999 and had over 150 students in the program. He also taught at Salem State College and is a guest lecturer at UMass Lowell. When Zach is not teaching, he is very active performing with many different music groups. He currently performs with The Molenes, Qwill and his steel drum band, Plum Island Pans. Zach has multiple recording credits: Kate Redgate, The Molenes, Mari Rosa, Storybook Steve, Joel Solemon, Ballet Mechanique Word Premiere Performance and has also recorded for Bose speakers.  Zach is the founder of Plum Island Pans Steel Drum Band and The Gong Meditation Project

We take groups of people who are interested in group hand drumming. You can put together a group of friends and we can facilitate some group drumming for you. We will teach you how to play hand drums and how to put that together in a group setting. This is a very popular activity for women and their friends, great for kid parties and also a great way for guys to get together with their friends for a night.  Prices vary.