Hand Camp For Band Camp

The gimmicky title of this post is also the name of my first special lesson series. It's not so much a camp, as a condensed set of lessons. The specific goal of the series is setting students up to develop better hand technique, complete with a pack of tools in this learning process. The series will consist of 5 one-on-one, 1-hour lessons during the final week of June. The goal is to help all students, whether behind the kit, in the orchestral pit, or the marching line.

Here are the basic details:


Hand Camp for Band Camp
A special lesson series

June 27 - July 1

Lesson series includes
- DVD of Tommy Igoe's Great Hands For A Lifetime
- 6" practice pad
- Tommy Igoe Signature Vic Firth sticks
- Stick Control by George Lawrence Stone
- a 3-ring binder with a compilation of hand exercises, drills and other applicable material
- maybe some other cool swag I can talk some companies into sending

Cost: $160.00 (prepaid to reserve slot)
There are ONLY 7 SLOTS available in total.

Call or email me to reserve your slot! It's gonna be...KILLER!





Lemuel
lemuel[at]lemuelhayes[dot]com

January Student of the Month

So I decided with the new year to try something special for my students. I began a student of the month program and I'm happy to announce the first student of the month.

Dylan Young!

Congrats! Keep up the hard work! Other students, this can be you next month!

Monahan Promo Fun

See the other one by Luis Romo HERE

Natalie Riccio's New Album

I was hired by Brooklyn pianist Natalie Riccio to play on her newest record. She came down to Athens and we recorded it at the wonderful 1093 Studios with Jim Hawkins. The place is amazing as is Natalie's music.

She's doing a Kickstarter campaign for this record. If you aren't familiar with Kickstarter, it's a website that allows a project to be crowd-sourced, but you get rewards for your sponsorship. The gifts are all price-dependent, but you can get the album before anyone else with just a $10 donation! The catch is that she HAS to meet her goal, otherwise, she gets nothing. She also has exclusive content only available to donors. She's getting close to her goal! Help her acheive it. Check her out!

Kickstarter

Bandcamp

Facebook

I hope you can support her endeavor! Her facebook page has a lot of great pics from the recording session.

Stop Saying I

Monahan's newest effort "Stop Saying I" is now available on iTunes, CD Baby, bandcamp, and Amazon.

I had the pleasure of playing on 4 of 8 tracks: "Moving Targets," "Dirty Talk," "More Familiar Words," and "Mr. and Ms. Understanding." It was an awesome experience and I couldn't be more happy with how it turned out. Ryan Monahan is gifted musician, wonderful person, and always a blast to play music with.

iTunes

CD Baby

bandcamp

Amazon

Monahan on Facebook

Monahan on Twitter

The record can be streamed for FREE on the bandcamp link above. Give it a listen and let me know what you think! If you like it, support Monahan with a download.

Keep swingin'.

Talking Dirty!

Monahan's "Dirty Talk" rounded out the 8th spot on OurStage.com's November chart!

BAM!

http://www.ourstage.com/contests/4576-indie-rock

MISFORTUNE5OO Preview

MISFORTUNE5OO will be playing a preview of some new material in the very intimate setting of The Max Canada this Thursday. It's an early show with music starting at 6 and MISFORTUNE5OO going on around 8:30.

It's free, 21+, and warm!

We may also have some surprise changes to songs you know!