SOUNDBUNNY ALTERNATIVE FULL
2003: Full length CD at Dark Horse Studios, Nashville, TN (Meadowlark Jivin, modern soul/funk).2005: Various radio jingles for Steve Maas Studios, Frederick, CO.2005:Full length CD at Rancho de Rhythm, Elgin, IL (Easy Bill and the Big Beat, R&B).2007: This Room Becomes a Crowd, Boulder, CO (SoundRabbit full length CD).2009: Tree Trunk Airplanes, Boulder, CO (SoundRabbit EP).Collins, drumming for Jaka, an African four piece, and live drum and bass/breakbeats with MFA: The Drop.Ĭhris has also played in several musical theatre performances including Menopause, the Musical You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, A Chorus Line, Crazy for You, and others.
Other local projects include work as the drummer for Easy Bill and the Big Beat, a Denver-based rhythm and blues band, laying down funk/soul grooves with Meadowlark Jivin out of Ft. He has toured the east and west coasts with blues, folk, rock and soul groups. Prior to the current gig with SoundRabbit, Chris spent time in the Mediterranean playing with a jazz trio aboard the Grand Princess Cruise Ship opened for Los Lobos in LA and played in a band with Sonny Mone, former guitar player for Neil Young's seminal band, Crazy Horse. Chris tours with SoundRabbit a few times a year playing cities and college towns up and down the east and west coasts and throughout the U.S. The band also won Best Pop/Rock Album By A New Band from the Mile High Music Store in Denver for their first album, This Room Becomes a Crowd. In 2009, SoundRabbit was nominated by Westword magazine as Best Rock Band in Colorado and as Best Band in Boulder by the Boulder Weekly. Previously, he was the drummer for SoundRabbit, an original folk/pop foursome that generatedquite a buzz on the Denver/Boulder music scene. Throughout this time, Chris has maintained a private teaching practice in addition to gigs and studio work.Ĭhris grew up in Acton, MA and currently lives in Louisville, CO with his wife and three children.Ĭhris has over 30 years of performance experience playing a variety of music from pop to heavy rock, jazz to electronica, blues to funk, reggae to Latin, soul to folk, and everything in between. In the fall of 2009, as part of his ongoing music education, Chris spent two weeks in Cuba in a percussive intensive study with Chuck Silverman, known worldwide as a specialist in applying Afro-Caribbean rhythms to the drum set.
Chris also led an afterschool Samba drumming program at the Bixby School in Boulder.
SOUNDBUNNY ALTERNATIVE HOW TO
For the Middlesex Program, Chris developed percussion groups, recording classes and rock ensembles for kids ages 8-16. In LA, his students worked from a book he created which offers an overview of basic rhythms and instruction on how to develop independence on the drum set. Past teaching positions include drum/percussion instructor at the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts in Boulder, the Colorado Drum Institute (CDI), Boulder Arts Academy, the LA Music and Arts School in Los Angeles, and the Middlesex Summer Arts Program in Concord, MA. He has taught students of all ages and skill levels. While there, Chris played for two years with the Berklee Samba Troupe.Ĭhris has over 30 years of experience teaching both children and adults. At Berklee, Chris studied with several prominent drummers including Gary Chaffee, Alan Dawson, Giovanni Hidalgo, Ed Uribe, John Ramsay, Steve Wilkes, Ian Froman and Sa Davis. The Afterbeat Drum School was founded by Chris Beers, a 1993 graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, known as one of the top music colleges in the country. PERFORMANCE | RECORDING HISTORY | REFERENCES
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