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Tom Teasley

About Me


You've never seen or heard music like this --

He picks up a frame drum the size of a cart wheel, and makes it howl like the wind.

He bends rhythms from a goblet-shaped doumbek as if the sound waves were made of rubber.
Then there's the synthesizer. With a wave of the hand, you get rain, thunder, torrential streams, or something that resembles sounds from outer space.

Meet Tom Teasley, who is -- according to the Washington Post --a "percussionist in the widest and most exuberant sense of the word."

He takes instruments, styles and rhythms from all over the world, from all points in time. And finds new and different ways to mix them together.

You're immersed in a new world of music -- a festival -- with rhythms parading, dancing, playing together into melodies you've never heard before. Join the excitement when traditions from distant cultures discover each other for the first time.

Teachers love to have him do school programs. Kids experience the real life behind the geography, social studies and music lessons, when engaged in music from around the world.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/05/2008
Band Website: www.tomteasley.com
Influences: Max Roach Joe Morello James Brown Igor Stravinsky Zakir Hussain Glen Velez DJ Logic The Meters Debussy Nature City Sounds
Sounds Like: "The evening's dazzler..." -- The Washington Post

"No Instrument has a limitation for him" -- Modern Drummer Magazine

"Fusions between American and Eastern schools are old news, yet seldom has any percussionist drawn so deeply from both wells and come up with a blend as bewitching and original as this." -- Drum! Magazine

"Latin, Brazilian, and Middle Eastern flavors abound, yet they're blended in such a way that the resulting dish hits the palate as wonderfully different, toying with each composer's original recipe to great effect."-- Jazziz Magazine

" ... a highly imaginative conceptualist... a colorful, intellectual musician, employing his talents in the orchestration of sound... ingeniously deploys unusual uses of unusual percussion... unlimited talents. " -- Allaboutjazz.com

"Washington D.C.-based percussion wizard Tom Teasley deserves his own slot in the CD bins. Maybe his own store." -- Jazz Improv Magazine

YouTube Tutorials and Demos


Sound-bending hand drum techniques you can easily adapt for drumset:

5 simple but powerful hand drum techniques
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3 instruments from 3 continents -- how Tom Teasley creates a new world of sound for percussion:
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Global Percussion Demo -- Tom Teasley in performance, with a kit of percussion from around the world, like you've never seen before:
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Record Label: ttmusic
Type of Label: Indie

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