Miranda Rondeau is an internationally recognized devotional singer, musician, and frame drum artist. She has been teaching the craft since 1999, as encouraged by her late teacher Layne Redmond, author of the seminal book, When the Drummers Were Women.
Miranda has created and teaches a repertoire of frame drum "circle songs" as a way of sacred remembrance. She performs in a ceremonial context, playing for rites of passage and communal bonding.
She performed together with her students for house recitals, and public events.Miranda has taught in Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Canada and throughout California.
She taught at The Asheville Percussion Festival and has performed at Tamburi Mundi Frame Drum Festival, Germany, International Biblical Frame Drum Festival, North American Frame Drum Festival, California and the First American Frame Drum Gathering.
She has studied with various teachers including David Kuckherman, Alessandra Belloni, Zohar Fresco and is currently studying with Yshai Afterman.
Miranda is often a guest presenter or drum teacher for online schools or programs like the Shift Network with Krista Holland, Global Rhythm Sangha with Christine Steven,
School of the Sacred Wild, New Earth Mystery School and women’s online retreats
Miranda created and maintains the online presence for “Women Frame Drumming,” dedicated to Layne Redmond.
She is dedicated in reclaiming the frame drum as a sacred tool of remembrance
Special Guest
The wonderful Patricia Algara will be sharing the wisdom and knowledge of the hive, the bees and The Melissae in each class session.
Patricia Algara was born and raised in Mexico, she is the founder and president of BASE Landscape Architecture.
She received her Masters in Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley. A recognized leader in sustainable design and community involvement, Patricia creates landscapes that immerse people of all backgrounds and abilities in learning, exploration and play.
Patricia is a bee advocate whose work focuses on creating productive educational landscapes and healthy habitat for pollinators. She founded an NGO "With Honey In the Heart" that creates healthy habitats for pollinators in the urban environment.
Her work with bees is also a spiritual and shamanic practice in the Melissea tradition; She is an active Rahibe at the College of the Melissea - Center for Sacred Beekeeping. After experiencing first hand the healing power of bee venom, she studied apiteraphy: bee medicine with Dr. Stefan Stangaciu.
She has lectured at various universities in the US and Mexico about the issues affecting bees and solutions through design. Patricia is the co-founder of the Algarden Demonstration Urban Farm and Apiary in Berkeley, CA where she observes, learns and teaches about bees.
She is a permaculture designer and avid beekeeper who strives to apply values that she has learned from the bees in her designs: that beauty, function, structure, and communication can intersect sweetly.
https://www.baselandscape.com/
https://www.withhoneyintheheart.com/
6 Week Live Recorded Signature Frame Drum Series
Exploring Rhythms in Six ( Upright position )
with Miranda Rondeau
Special weekly guest Patricia Algara sharing wisdom and knowledge from the hive, the bees and the Melissae
Includes OPENING Live recorded Workshop Exploring Rhythms in Six ( Total of 7 Workshops)
We will center around exploring rhythms in six
while learning skills that can be applied to any rhythm patterns
6 Week Online Frame Drum Series ( Upright position )
Exploring Rhythms in Six
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Pre-requisite suggestion-
Experienced playing basic strokes & patterns fluidly .Can read and play simple drum notation. When a basic pattern is recited you are able to play it
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We will center around exploring rhythms in six
while learning skills that can be applied to any rhythm patterns
Dedicated to the bees and their honeycomb
Special bee musing wisdom with Patricia Algara
Includes
*Live Recorded "Opening" Rhythms in Six Workshop
*Private FB Group where supplemental videos will live
*Opening song invocation
* Short bee weavings
*Warm ups
*Metronome
*Combine root pattern combinations
*Learn ways to create variations
*Explore implementing how to play variations while drumming
*Learn to substitute strokes
*Learn to implement subdivisions
*Entrancing Rhythms
* A little vocal weaving
* Integrate 3 and 4 stroke rolls, index doums
*Improvisational prompts
*Create your own 6 beat patterns
*Extended playing time
*PDF's.
*Short Supplemental Videos
*Priced for 1 year access
24/7 access from date of registration. Note there is no extension.
You would need to re-register and will get another year access.
Subscription option of $35 a month for as long or short as desired.
Exploring Rhythms in Six
I was able to catch up with class 5 today and I just have to let you know how nourishing this is to my being- truly honey for my spirit, soul and body Thank you for all you do, Miranda.
~ Cyndi
Thank you so much for this course, for bringing all of us together and for your inspirational teaching, Miranda.
You have reignited in me the childlike playfulness and excitement of explorations and discovery! Deep gratitude to you Jackie (Ixchel
“Participating in Miranda’s series of the sixes has been such an incredibly fun journey .Her unique teaching style not only breaks down technique but truly empowers my creative expression. It has opened me up to be more adventurous in exploring possible combinations of both rhythm and voice. Her love and embodiment of what she teaches is infectious and we are all falling in love with the sixes along with her!” Chun-mui Miller
Example Curriculum
- PDF pg 1 Week #1
- PDF pg 2 Week #1
- RECORDING Week #1 Exloring Rhythms in SIX (83:23)
- Supplemental video #1 Subdivision body percussion (1:34)
- Supplemental video #2 Subdivision with Drum playing Tk (1:49)
- Supplemental video #3 triplet subdivision with drum playing Tk (1:16)
- Supplemental video #4 Warm up D _ K (2:42)
- Supplemental vdieo #5 Warm up (2:01)
- Supplemental video #6 pg 1 (2:55)
- Supplemental video #7 pg 2 (1:58)
- Supplemenetal video #8 Demo on spontaneous variations (1:52)
- PDF pg 1 Week #2
- RECORDING Week #2 Exploring Rhythms in Six (84:32)
- Supplemental video #1 Warm up little doum (1:53)
- Supplemental video #2 3 stroke roll (1:53)
- Supplemental video #3 integrate roll (1:02)
- Supplemental video #4 Subtract (1:49)
- Supplemental Video #5 Create your own rhythm (1:31)
- Supplemental Video #6 Closing rhythm (2:17)
- PDF Week #5
- RECORDING Week #5 (84:53)
- Supplemental Video #1 Closing Rhythm (1:29)
- Supplemental Video #2 Review Subdivision Counts (2:54)
- Supplemental Video #3 Integrate subdivision counts in rhythm (3:44)
- Supplemental Video #4 Ingrated subdivision for count #3 (3:56)
- Supplemental Video #5 Integrate R and r at count #2 (3:28)
- Supplemental Video #6 Integrate triplet roll at count of #3 (2:26)
- Week #6 PDF
- RECORDING Week #6 Exploring Rhyhtms in Six (84:24)
- Supplemental Video #1 Subdivision with pattern (1:50)
- Supplemental Video #2 Variation root and subtraction (4:37)
- Supplemental Video #3 Long root and 2 variations (3:09)
- Supplemental Video # 4 meaningful substitution (2:13)
- Supplemental Video #5 Substitute 1st group (1:31)
- Give yourself the gift of space for exploration
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