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2009 Wisconsin State Music Conference
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creativity to the core |
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| Thursday, October 29 |
Return to Session Schedule |
| 8:00 am - 9:15 am |
Location:
Room K/L,
Monona Terrace |
Inside the Big Band Drum Chart |
Presented by: Steve Fidyk, Davidsonville, MD
Sponsored by: Drum Workshop, Inc., Latin Percussion, Remo, Vater and Zildjian
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Presider: Karen Iken, Green Bay |
 Inside the Big Band Drum Chart uses traditional and contemporary arrangements performed by a 17 piece jazz ensemble as the vehicle to study beats, musical form, ensemble phrasing, articulation, and interpretation. For each arrangement, there is “talk through” information explaining how the composition is played as well as transcriptions of key beats and melodic information that connects the “written drum part” to the music. The accompanying 248 page book includes a 2.5 hour MP3 CD and an hour DVD demonstrating every exercise in the text. Also included are anecdotes and interviews with legendary big band drummers and arrangers such as Louie Bellson, Jake Hanna, Phil Wilson, Mark Taylor and Bob Curnow. |
| Wisconsin Teacher Standards: 1, 3 |
| Wisconsin Music Standards:
B, C, E, F
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Jazz drummer, author, and educator Steve Fidyk has toured and recorded with Maureen McGovern, New York Voices, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, The Capitol Bones, The Taylor/Fidyk Big Band, an ensemble he co-leads with Stan Kenton arranger Mark Taylor, and is currently the drummer with the Army Blues Jazz Ensemble from Washington D.C. As an educator, Fidyk is percussion editor for Mel Bay Publications and has authored several method books and an instructional DVD. He has also recorded over 75 jazz play-along volumes for the Hal Leonard Corporation and contributed drum transcriptions to Drum Standards and Peter Erskine’s The Drum Perspective.
Fidyk has served on the faculty at Wilkes University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, George Mason University and The University of Maryland and is presently a member of the jazz faculty at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He holds a masters degree in jazz studies from the University of Maryland and bachelors in music education from Wilkes University.
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