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Carl Tassi

If you're not living your dream... who is?

About Me

Check out the entire CD
"Waiting For The Bread"

at CD Baby.com
DRUM SET INSTRUCTION
TIRED OF TECHNICAL BARRIERS?
Carl Tassi, formally trained by master drum teacher Freddie Gruber, is now accepting students on all levels.
...an approach to playing, which is one aspect of Freddie's teaching, that allows the drummer to facilitate the execution of ideas musically around the drum set.
WORK LESS... PLAY MORE!
Increase your dynamic range, volume, power, touch and endruance.
--- Located in the Los Angeles Area ---
For information on private instruction call: 818-905-1712
or send an e-mail to: [email protected]
For additional information go to allmusic.com and/or google.com and type "Carl Tassi"
www.carltassi.com
Listen to music clips on the entire CD:
www.cdbaby.com/carltassi
Teaching References
Info on Freddie Gruber at Drummerworld.com
Stick Control By Freddie Gruber Video
DrumsOnTheWeb.com
The Drummers Forum
Music video by "Weird Al" Yankovic (from the album "Straight Outta Lynwood")

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/12/2006
Band Website: carltassi.com
Band Members: Carl Tassi :vocals & drums
Cengiz Yaltkaya :piano
Austin Nicholsen :bass
Endorsements:

Drum Workshop
( drums & hardware )
www.dwdrums.com

E-Pad! Enterprises, LLC
www.epadco.com

Distributors:

NorthCountry Distributors
Cadence Building, Redwood, NY 13679 U.S.A.
Tel: 315-287-2852 Fax: 315-287-2860
E-mail: [email protected]

CD Baby
5925 NE 80th Ave.
Portland, OR 97218-2891
Tel: 503-595-3000
www.cdbaby.com

Super D
17822 A Gillette
Irvine , CA 92614
Tel: 866-666-1170
www.sdcd.com
Influences: Vocalists:
Mose Allison, Karrin Allyson, Chet Baker, Tony Bennett, Bob Dorough, Kurt Elling, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Horn, Billy Holiday, Eddie Jefferson, Irene Kral, Carmen McCray, Mel Torme, Joe Williams, etc.

Instrumentalists:
Dave Brubeck, Gary Burton, Kenny Burrell, Canonball Adderley, Pablo Casals, Ron Carter, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Paul Desmond, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, John Handy III, Charlie Haden, Colmen Hawkins, Yasha Heifetz, Albert King, Ahmad Jamal, Roland Kirk, Leonid Kogan, Charles Lloyd, Herbie Mann, Les McCann, Jack McDuff, Marian McPartland, Charles Mingus, David Oistrakh, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, Tony Scott, Bud Shank, Jimmy Smith, Henryk Szeryng, Cal Tjader, Stevie Ray Vaughn, etc.

Drummers:
Collin Bailey, Ginger Baker, Louie Bellson, Jimmy Cobb, Clayton Cameron, Vernell Fournier, Steve Gadd, Jerry Grannelli, John Guerrin, Jeff Hamilton, Louis Hayes, Elvin Jones, Papa Jo Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Ron Jefferson, Gene Krupa, Joe Morello, Shelly Manne, Bernard Perdie, Charlie Persip, Buddy Rich, Danny Richmond, Ed Thigpen, Tony Williams, etc.

Symphonic Percussion:
Anthony Cirone, Roland Kohloff

African Percussion:
Kwaku Daddi

Songwriters:
Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn, Willie Dixon, George & Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Fields, Laurenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, George Harrison, Lennon & McCartney, Lieber & Stoller, Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer, Serge Mahanovich, Cole Porter, Billy Strayhorn, Mel Torme, James Taylor, Tommy Wolf, etc.

Composers:
Johannes Brahms, J. S. Bach, Count Basie, Bela Bartok, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein, Hector Berlioz, John Cage, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, George & Ira Gershwin, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stan Kenton, Luigi Nono, Nino Rota, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Jean Sebelius, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varez, Richard Wagner, Anton Webern, etc.

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- Hunter Thompson

Sounds Like: Traditonal jazz trio with vocals
Record Label: Royola Records
Type of Label: Indie