Anna Cucciardo - Drum Instructor

Website: http://cucciardo.wordpress.com Hometown: Concord, CA Years playing: 14 Years teaching: 8 Musical influences: Stanton Moore, Jeff Campitelli, Tre Cool, Pat Wilson, Benny Benjamin, Pistol Allen, Uriel Jones, Carter Beauford, Philly Joe Jones Education: Bachelor's Degree from UC Berkeley, Recording Arts and Commercial Music Certificates from Diablo Valley College Musical Projects: Go Kart Mozart, The Seth Chaplas, West Grand Boulevard, Jump Back, Total Eclipse Books used: The Funky Primer, Syncopation for the Modern Drummer, Alfred's Kids Drum Method, Groove Essentials Key teaching concepts: Counting, efficient playing technique, reading music, keeping time, having fun, learning different genres (Rock, Funk, Jazz, Latin, etc.), developing listening. Teaching Days: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays

A Bay Area native, Anna has been performing as a drummer since age 14, playing hundreds of gigs each year with bands of various genres. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley, and was a member of the Cal Band for 4 years. Anna is not only a professional musician, but also an audio engineer, tour manager, concert promoter, record producer, web/graphic desiger and director of Music Time Academy. She currently performs with Go Kart Mozart, Seth Chapla, and West Grand Blvd (among many others), and is an instructor for the Young American Patriots Fife & Dum Band in Pleasanton, CA.