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
Live Recorded 4 Week Signature Frame Drum Series
Grounding in the Pulse : Drumming, Stepping & Voice
with Miranda Rondeau
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Pre-requisite
Frame Drum Introduction or know names of strokes, how to play them, how to play patterns, how to play rhythms upon hearing the strokesrecited and able to read simple drum notation.
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Come experience drumming, stepping and Voice.
We launch with a foundation of Layne Redmond inspired practices.
An integrative approach to feeding rhythm in our body.
We will embody how time is divided.
Our feet become our metronome, our heart beat and foundation.
When stepping and drumming, we step into a lineage of drummers who has stepped with Layne Redmond over the past 40 years.
A skillset to keep us together in time, in the pulse and feed ourself to deepen our internal pulse.
We become the metronome as our feet connedt to the ground feeding info. back into the body to cultivate internalizing the pulse.
As patterns are playe on top we have another reference point to develop a relationship to the rhythm played on top.
Stepping becomes the new foundation to launch into rhythms o f simplicity to more complexity.
This is a whole body mind approach.
It also is a way for us to entrain, to keep together in time and unified.It will rewire our brains, grow new neural pathways and balanced both hemispheres of our brain.
It's a wonderful skill set to cultivate.
These skills also allow the possibilities to do processions, a practice
done since ancient times.
Voice - We recite the patterns outloud and vocally mark time in different ways. There will be a touch of melody, and call and response singing
We play in the context that the drum is a sacred tool of remembrance. We know that we don't just hold a drum in our hands but all that it represents. Everything always an offering.
When we step, we feed the lineage of drummers that drum, step and recite as Layne Redmond passed down.
- Grounding Meditation
- Opening Song
- Layne Redmond stepping practice of subdivisions
- Ground in the walking pulse
- Honor the Elements
- Warm ups
- Counting and marking of time with voice and hands
- Play different rhythm patterns and develop a relationship to them
- Pattern variations
- Rhythm pattern combining
- Walking, drumming and voice
- Multi- track
- Vocal call and response
- PDF's
- 5 month access
Duration
Please be mindful to allot enough time to complete series. You will be responsible to complete in time. There are no extensions possible, only re-registering for another 5 month access.
Get your drum for a short simple experience of stepping and drumming.
Curriculum
Layne Redmond
Layne Redmond and Miranda Rondeau performing
Layne Redmond author of When the Drummers Were Women
