Learning to the Beat

Learning to the Beat

Music Professor Robert Damm drums with a student on hand-held frame drums while other students do the same in the background.
Photo by Megan Bean

June 15, 2018

Robert Damm, right, a professor in Mississippi State's Department of Music, instructs Matt Hines, an MSU music education graduate student from Bentonia, during a summer school class on world drumming. The class is an introduction to drum techniques, traditional rhythms, performance practices, ensemble organization and musical concepts of selected world drumming traditions.