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 Joe
Bergamini maintains a diverse career as a drumming performer and educator.
Enjoying various styles of playing, he is most well-known for his progressive
rock drumming in the bands Happy the Man and 4Front. Joe is well known
on the New York scene, and in recent years has been working extensively
on Broadway. He performed on Broadway and in the first national tour
of Movin' Out, and currently plays at In the Heights, The Lion King,
Rock of Ages, and Jersey Boys. For 11 years Joe was the drummer in
the popular New York City area band Power Windows, and has performed
and recorded with many other artists as a sideman.
Recognized internationally as an educator, Joe has given hundreds
of drum clinics in schools, retail stores, and conventions over the
past 15 years. He has appeared at the Ultimate Drummers Weekend (Melbourne,
Australia), the Cape Breton Drum Festival (Nova Scotia, Canada), KOSA
(Vermont, USA), and the Sonny Emory Drum Camp (Atlanta, USA). In 2007
he was the featured drum clinician on the first Tama Dayz US tour.
He also maintains a busy private teaching schedule at his studio in
New Jersey.
Joe is very active in the music publishing world. He is the Senior
Drum Editor for Hudson Music, where he oversees all book projects and
acts as an associate producer on various DVD productions.
As an author, Joe has won three Modern Drummer Readers Poll awards
for his drum books. He is the author of Turn It Up & Lay It Down,
MD Classic Tracks, It's Your Move (with Dom Famularo), Drum
Techniques of Led Zeppelin, Operation: Rockenfield - The Drumming of
Queensryche, Drumming Out Of The Shadows - The Drumming of Jason Bittner
and Shadows Fall, and Polyrhythmic Potential (with Chris Pennie). He was formerly
Percussion Editor for Carl Fischer Publications, has worked on various
promotional and R&D projects for Tama drums, and is co-owner (with
Dom Famularo) of Wizdom Media (an independent music publisher). Joe
is also an occasional writer for Modern Drummer magazine.
Please visit Joe's websites at www.joebergamini.com and www.myspace.com/joebergamini for news, schedule, and multimedia clips.
Joe Bergamini's Setup
1.
LP Mini Timbales
2.
LP Jam Block (high)
3.
LP Tapon Cowbell
4.
LP Black Beauty Cowbell
5.
LP Ridge Rider Rock Cowbell
6.
LP Everything Rack
7.
LP Cyclops Tambourine
8.
LP Gajate Bracket
9.
LP Jam Block (low)
10.
LP Mount-All Cymbal Bracket (for bell disc)
11.
LP Ridge Rider Classic Cowbell
12.
LP Mount-All Percussion Bracket
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