Music :
Manu Katché
Discover the methods and techniques of this legendary drummer. They will allow you to free your musical personality and deliver your best groove.
Available in French with English subtitles
Music :
Manu Katché
Discover the methods and techniques of this legendary drummer. They will allow you to free your musical personality and deliver your best groove.
Available in French with English subtitles
MANU KATCHÉ BECOMES YOUR INSTRUCTOR!
For 40 years, Manu Katché has been keeping the beat, solo and alongside world known artists. Diverted from classical music to jazz or pop-rock, his style can be recognised amongst thousands by music lovers.
Passionate, humble, and generous, he becomes YOUR instructor for an unprecedented masterclass.
Available in French with English subtitles
11 vidéo lessons
+ listening exercises
Unlimited access for a year, to grow at your own pace.
1 live
Where you can ask all your questions to Manu Katché
What you will learn :
Surpass the instrument and impose YOUR own sound !
This incredible drummer will share, exclusively with you, his methods, and technic, on how to play your drums like no one and give your music the elevation it deserves.
For his first ever masterclass, come and meet him in his recording studio and uncover his secrets to:
- Tune your drums and discover your own sound.
- Unleash your musical personality.
- Master perfectly the technic so you can forget about the drums and focus entirely on the experience.
- Create the sensation of an organic resonance with your own sounds
- Build your talent, daily by combining hard work and rhythmic references
- Open yourself to new influences and expand your artistic common knowledge
- Save your energy & handle your body for the long run.
- Shape your mind and create chances.
- Work in a studio
“Drums are heartbeats, it’s the rhythm that beats inside us.”
– MANU KATCHÉ –
Program for the Masterclass
Immediate unlimited access – 11 video lessons – 10 practical exercises
1. Understanding the artist’s role
« I’m a tryer; I like to raise a debate after a rare musical and human encounter that makes me want to come up with something different. »
Feel the music’s vibrations. Hear the educational and emotional role of the musician as well as the importance of an open and rich culture, symbol of an individual’s strength.
2. Create an organic resonance
Uncover, technically, Manu Katché’s unique posture behind his drums (his angle, his hold on drumsticks…) and the grooves demoed, playing drums, cymbals, and Toms. To understand the ancestral animal side of the instrument, feel the vibrations, listen to the metronome, the heartbeat… and give colour to your music !
3. Manage your energy
« Body and soul are one, you have to find your own way to preserve your energy. »
Set yourself in the right mood to produce the power required to play the instrument until the end of the concert, while protecting your body for the long run. Think about rest, nutrition, oxygenation of the muscles, breathing, relaxation etc.
4. Master the technique
« I chose instinct other excessive technique. »
Work the isolation of the 4 members, the technique, the consistency of the sound and the power. Learn the drums’ requirements to overcome the instrument and express fully.
5. Building your musical personality – The guardian of tempo
« Beyond the melodic or rhythmic approach, there’s the groove and how we manage it on the tracks. »
Explore your rhythmic references, mix styles to set your own tempo and dynamic. Speak as the guardian of the beat given by the loop. Demo of a MoR (middle-of-the road) tempo: « Don’t U Worry.»
6. Building your musical personality – The electro challenge
Find your place in a piece of electronic music, give powerful but different rhythmic colours. Decoding an up-tempo demo on ‘Tricky 98’.
7. Building your musical personality – One song, different possibilities
Create patterns by exploring a range of different attitudes to grow the piece, anchor it in an ambiance, infuse it with power and good energy. Decode a demo on a slower tempo (“Goodbye for Now”), with an unstructured approach, then setting it to the tempo, dubbing it etc.
8. Understanding the art of interpretation
Appropriate the work with a full knowledge of the facts, research with the artist to retrieve contextual data enabling the co-construction of his interpretation (dynamics, etc.); and put your musical personality at his service.
9. Understanding the specificity of the studio
Rethink the structure of the piece, ahead of recording, rewrite it with musicians, manage the sound in situ, nuances, constancy etc. Maintain focus over time. Know how to question yourself when necessary.
10. Adjusting your posture
Adopt the right attitude to move forward, exist within a group and stand out. Find your line and stick to it, protect your musical territory, and know how to recognize your flaws and expertise. Take care of your musical and technical aestheticism.
11. Bonus – A solo !
Included in your masterclass:
Available in French with English subtitles
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How does the masterclass work?
It’s very simple :
BE PREPARED TO…
- Play as you are, to the rhythm of the metronome
- Think like a “drum melodist”
- Serve a work by interpreting it with the precision of a watchmaker
- Consider solos, quartets or quintets and always find your place there
- Get out of your comfort zone… and out from the crowd !
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