• Staying relaxed while playing
• Traditional & contemporary playing techniques
• Achieving and maintaining a solid groove
• Progressing in a step-by-step process
• Listening & communicating
• The history & cultural traditions of the instruments
• Improvising
• Playing with passion

Jim is also renowned for using the study of percussion and rhythm as an inspirational, "working metaphor" for learning essential Life Skills, including:

• Intention, focus, discipline & patience
• Communicating & cooperating
• Living life with a positive, "can-do" attitude

Jim has taught over twenty workshops at the prestigious Percussive Arts Society International Conferences and as well as at annual National Association of Music Manufacturers International Music Instruments Trade Shows. Jim is also a widely published author of articles and lessons on percussion education and playing. His work appears in music magazines, on numerous on-line percussion web sites, as well as in both the Percussive Arts Society and Latin Percussion education magazines.

Jim works with school and community educators to customize his programs to serve their needs and goals, and to help train musicians to gain real-world skills while having fun.

Greiner is a clinician/endorser for Latin Percussion Instruments, Sabian Cymbals, Pro Mark Drumsticks, Gibraltar Drum Hardware and Audix Microphones. His clinics in music stores, at music camps and drum festivals and at schools are supported by LP and these other manufacturers.

Jim is also head of Latin Percussion Instruments' Recreational & Community Drumming Program. LP and Jim have partnered to create hands-on percussion programs, drum circles and workshops that make it fun and easy for people at all levels to experience the benefits and joy of drumming, while progressing to new levels of playing.

Hands-On! Drumming® Percussion Education Programs:

Drum & Percussion Demonstration (45 to 90 minutes): Clinic/demonstration of hand percussion instruments and how they are used in traditional and contemporary settings.

Interactive Hand Percussion Workshop: Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced levels and combination of two or more levels (45 minutes to six hours): Demonstration and hands-on session. Includes tambourines, claves, Shekere & other shakers, afuce/cabasa, bells, blocks and percussion effects. Traditional and contemporary techniques and rhythms, history and cultural background and their uses in a wide range of musical styles.

Interactive Congas, Bongos and/or Djembe Workshop: Beginning, Intermediate & Advanced levels and combination of two or more levels (45 minutes to six hours): Demonstration and hands-on session. Traditional and contemporary techniques and rhythms, history and cultural background and their uses in a wide range of musical styles.

Drum Circle Facilitation Training; Beginning, Intermediate & Advance levels and combination of two or more levels (60 minutes to three-day workshops): Techniques and rhythms for leading drum circles, and conducting other interactive drumming and rhythm-based programs, for groups of all types. Great for music teachers, other educators, Activities Directors, therapists and group leaders of all types.

Community Rhythm Residency™ (one day to two weeks): An extended stay in the community with drumming programs for a wide range of community groups including corporations, non-profits, schools, service organizations, community centers and others. Our CRR creates a true spirit of community across the full spectrum of people and organizations that make up the community. The CRR is often sponsored by multiple local and regional groups, but often local corporations that bring Jim in to do his corporate programs become primary sponsors and reap the rewards of being recognized as community benefactors. (See our Corporations, Conferences & Retreats page)

All instruments can be provided

Contact us NOW to bring Jim Greiner's renowned, uplifting and enormously effective
percussion teaching to YOUR school or group!