Online lessons available worldwide and professional drum tracking from our home studio in addition to in-person lessons at our teaching studio. Contact us for details.
We provide instruction, inspiration, information, services, and support relating to drums, drumming, drummers, percussion, rhythm, music, marimbas, world music, improvisation, practice, movement, and dance.
The Embodying Rhythm School of Percussive Arts is located just outside of Hotchkiss in Western Colorado and offers performances and educational opportunities for all ages and levels in a wide variety of percussion based music from around the world. Online lessons now offered. Contact us to discuss or schedule a lesson. Our offerings include the services of a highly skilled professional drummer/percussionist for studio recording, technical support, consulting, and teaching.
Student and Community Album
We’re happy to release the “Young Creatives in Harmony” album directed and recorded by David and Arlyn Alderdice including over 100 students and community members. Listen here.
Who we are^
David Alderdice: Musician, multi-percussionist, drummer, performer, composer, teacher, father, backpack lead, and ethno-musicologist.
Arlyn Deva Alderdice: Life-coach, percussionist, dancer, teacher, mother, performer, and aspiring herbalist. Learn more about coaching here.
What we do^
David Alderdice is available to put drums and/or percussion on your recording. We have upgraded our home recording studio with PreSonus Studio One, enabling us to professionally record and collaborate on any musical project from around the world. Here is David’s discography.
We offer many forms of educational experience ranging from private lessons (online and in person) to group workshops, classes, lectures, residencies, assemblies, and community building events.
We also produce fun musical performance concerts and funky street parades.
Deepening our relationship to rhythm and music through exploration and embodiment.
Mission^
Embodying Rhythm is dedicated to uplifting the entire human experience by helping to make music and music-making more and more accessible to individuals and groups through healing sounds, active listening, movement, the expansion of creative perceptions, and the lessons involved in learning and playing music with others.
Our goal is to assist people in deepening their relationship with life via the study and practice of all the universal applications that rhythm, percussion, music, and dance have to offer.
Let’s enjoy some music. Check out some fun video playlists: found percussion, percussion instruction, drum instruction, and marimba music.
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