RMM Resources
Thank you to NAMM Members for suggesting and contributing to various resources that are helping to advance music learning opportunities for people of all ages. Please use these resources as idea-starters and to help you build your RMM programs; listed resources are not endorsed or sponsored by NAMM and are provided as information only.
Getting Started One-Sheets
Drumming / Percussion
Ukulele
Guitar
Keyboard/Piano
Ensembles
Organizations
Other Resources
Social Media
The following PDFs provide basic information and a brief history on each instrument and are a great resource for new players!
Places to Start:
- 10 Tips for starting a drum circle
- 10 Tips for a successful drum circle event
- Starting your own Drum Circle
- Bongo Boy Music and Recreational Drumming Center
- REMO Recreational Music Center (RMC)
- Remo Recreational Music Making Partnership Program
Finding a Facilitator:
Training Programs:
- Village Music Circles
- UpBeat Drum Circles
- Remo HealthRHYTHMS
- World Music Drumming
- Circles of Rhythm - Canada
Additional Drumming Resources:
- Jim Griener - LP DVD
- Art and Heart of Drum Circles DVD- Hal Leonard -
- Together in Rhythm (video) - Alfred
- Art and Heart of Drum Circles, Stevens (2003)
- Drum Circle Spirit, Hull
- Drum Circle Facilitation, Hull
- The Amazing Jamnasium, Kalani
- Together in Rhythm, Kalani
- Drum Circles Las Vegas
Places to start:
- Kala Ukulele Circle Starter Kit
- James Hill’s Ukulele in the Classroom: (Ukulele program starter kit:)
Ukulele Communities:
Places to start:
Program Examples:
Getting Started / Programs:
- The Piano Guy: Play Piano in a Flash
- Musical Moments
- National Piano Foundation
- Music Master Development Group
- Clavinova Connection Center
- Way Cool Keyboarding
- Lowrey LIFE program
- Recreational Music Making Handbook: for Piano Teachers Brenda Dillon / Brian Chung
- Business Matters: Time To Rethink Your Store's Lesson Program? |
DPerez - Business Matters.pdf
Find a Facilitator:
- Weekend Warriors- Skip Music’s legendary adult Rock and Roll program.
- New Horizons Bands of America: New Horizons Music programs provide entry points to music making for adults, including those with no musical experience at all and those who were active in school music programs but have been inactive for a long time.
- JamCamp 365: Curriculum to start a teen rock program in your store.
National Guild for Community Arts Education
- Engaging Adolescents; creating teen programs:
- Creative Aging Guide
- More than The Sum of its Parts: Collaboration & Sustainability in Arts Education
National Center for Creative Aging
- Teaching Artists Toolkit- an online course for teaching artists interested in learning how to lead lifelong learning programs in the arts that engage older people as creators. Coming JUNE 2013.
- Creative Aging Training / program development assistance
National Music Day
Music For People
Other Resources / Publications / Reading
- Making Music Magazine
- Meetup.com – great for finding established community music groups
- Community Music: More than The Sum of its Parts, Lee Higgins
- Putumayo World Music
- Connect with Music, Roberta Newman
- Music Medicine, Christine Stevens
- RMM on Facebook | Facebook.com/makingmusicmag
- ReverbNation -a way to promote your business! By Norman Jones, Rhythm Child | ReverbNation Article.pdf