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
Testimonial
"Hi dear Miranda,
I want to thank you so much: you care for us so well with recordings, supplemental videos, pdfs, your voice and beautiful melodies.
Thank you for being on this planet, Miranda." Christina.
7 Week live recorded Frame Drum Signature Series ( Lap position )
Vocal Weavings in Rhythms in Seven
with Miranda Rondeau
Includes Bonus week #1 live recorded workshop Exploring Rhythms in Seven with PDF: You'll want to do this first.
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Pre-requisite : Know how to play patterns upon hearing it recited for hand played frame drum. Exploring Rhythms in Seven week #1 recording which will be included.
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Excited to share for the first time this offering.
If you love sevens it will open a door to dance with your voice.
We will explore and experience vocal weavings while playing in a rhythms of seven.
We'll ground in with the rhythm structure to begin our relationship to the accents
and feel of that seven.
This series will center around the singing with the drum being our foundation as we explore different ways to place our voice within a rhythm structure with combined measures.
This is a non traditional approach.
You'll gain skills to create your own vocal weavings and experience different ways to sing.
It will be fun, challenging and a nice stretch.
The session will include
*Live recorded workshop Exploring Rhythms in Seven with PDF
*Opening song offering
*Develop a relationship to a rhythm structure of seven
*Develop a relationship to groupings within structure
*Layered learning
*Demonstrations
*Learn rhythm patterns in seven
* Call and response singing
*Clap and sing along to guitar in seven
* Experience singing simple spontaneous syllables within a structure
* Various placements of syllables within pattern
* Various placements of syllable within a group of measures
*Combine different placements of voice within a group of measures.
* Learn two composition
*Learn one short vocal chant
*Supplemental Videos
* PDF's
*Private FB group to connect, share and another place where supplemental videos live
*Priced for 5 month access
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5 month access
Please plan your time wisely and schedule it in as you will be responsible to complete it in time.
There are no extensions.
Access is through registering again and you'll receive another 5 months.
Join along with your clapping hands.
Sun Moon spontaneous offering in Seven
Example Curriculum
- Metronome
- PDF Week #1 Vocal Weavings in Rhythms in Seven
- * RECORDING Week #1:: Vocal Weavings in Rhythms in Seven (78:40)
- Supplemental video #1 metronome, clapping rhythms structure, guitar and syllables sung long (6:32)
- Supplemental video #2 metronome, clapping, rhythm structure, guitar and syllables per measure (5:43)
- Supplemental video #3 Warm up (2:05)
- Supplementa Video #4 Geometric Triangle (2:47)
- Supplemental Video #5 Two patterns with syllables in both durations (7:16)
- PDF Week #2
- * RECORDING Week #2 Vocal Weavings in Rhythms in Seven (81:37)
- Supplemental Video #1 see PDF #1 Drumming section (1:15)
- Supplmental Video #2 see PDF #2 Drumming section (1:10)
- Supplmental Video #3 see PDF #3 Drumming section (1:23)
- Supplmental Video #4 see PDF #6 Drumming section (1:52)
- Supplmental Video #5 see PDF #8 Drumming section (2:27)
- Supplmental Video #6 see PDF combining section #3 and #1 Drumming section (3:11)
- Supplmental Video #7 see PDF Combine section #1 and #2 Drumming section (3:21)
- Supplmental Video #8 see PDF combine section #6 and #8 Drumming section (2:31)
- PDF Week #3
- * RECORDING Week #3 Vocal Weavings in Rhythms in Seven (81:21)
- Supplemental Video 1 Section D week #3 (2:29)
- Supplemental Video 2 section C + D week #3 (4:06)
- Supplemental Video 3 section E week #3 (2:13)
- Supplemental Video 4 section D E D week #3 (1:56)
- Supplemental Video 5 section ABCDED week #3 (2:41)
- Supplemental Video 6 screen share A B C D week $3 (2:06)
- Supplemental Video 7 section Intro week #3 (4:15)
- PDF pg 1 Week #4
- PDF pg2 Week #4
- *RECORDING Week #4 Vocal Weavings in Rhythms in Seven (80:57)
- Supplemental Video #1 pg 1 A (2:26)
- Supplemental Video #2 pg 1 B (2:54)
- Supplemental Video #3 pg 1 C (2:30)
- Supplemental Video #4 pg 2 A (4:02)
- Supplemental Video #5 pg 2 B (2:05)
- Supplemental Video #6 pg 2 Combination #1 (1:45)
- Supplemental Video #7 pg 2 Combination #2 (1:43)
- Supplemental Video #8 pg 2 Combination #3 (2:02)
- Supplemental Video #9 pg 2 Last pattern (2:42)
- Supplemental Video #10 Screen share with whole song (2:39)
- PDF pg1 Week #5
- * RECORDING Week #5 Vocal Weavings in Rhythms in Seven (80:38)
- Supplemental Video #1 Brief Recap of last 4 weeks (6:05)
- Supplemental Video #2 Pg1 - Part A Clapping (2:35)
- Supplemental Video #3 pg1 - Part B Clapping (1:56)
- Supplementary Video #4 pg1 -Part C Claspping (3:43)
- Supplementary Video #5 pg1 Part A Drumming and voice (2:11)
- Supplementary Video #6 pg 1 Part B Drumming and Voice (2:29)
- Supplementary Video #7 pg 1 Part C Drumming and Voice (3:57)
- Supplementary Video #8 Whole song screen share (2:56)
- PDF Week #6
- *RECORDING Week #6 Vocal Weavings in Rhythms in Seven (80:38)
- Supplemental Video #1 PDF Transition Intro into A (0:57)
- Supplemental Video #2 PDF Transition B intoC (1:38)
- Supplemental Video #3 PDF Transition C into end (1:27)
- Supplemental Video #4 PDF Whole Song (2:04)
- Supplemental Video #5 Call and Response Singing (6:18)
- Supplemental Video #6 PDF Clapping create own call and response practice #1 (2:41)
- Supplemental Video #7 PDF Clapping create own call and response practice #2 (1:21)
- Music Video of composition 2 (1:12)
