Bachelor
Drums
Rhythm is arguably the most important element in music. The Bachelor’s programme at the Drums department will train you in a wide variety of musical styles like jazz, rock, funk, fusion, Big Band, Latin and world music , both traditional and contemporary. We will teach you how to improvise in these styles, to be creative, achieve the right hand and foot technique and sound. Apart from all of this, you will get a lot of freedom to find our own voice on the drums. We also provide special lessons that will teach you (basic) skills in percussion.
Meet our team
Meet your lecturers
Ron van Stratum and drum students of Conservatorium Maastricht
Curriculum
Curriculum
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Major Drums |
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Year 1 |
Year 2 |
Year 3 |
Year 4 |
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Main Subject and Components related to the Main Subject |
25 |
17 |
38 |
42 |
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Main Subject Drums |
25 |
17 |
38 |
42 |
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Band Performing |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
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Band |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
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Composing & Arranging |
6 |
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Arranging Jazz |
6 |
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Recording & Producing |
2 |
2 |
1 |
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Studio Recording |
1 |
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Capturing and Shaping Sound |
2 |
2 |
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Tools in Creation |
18 |
18 |
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Aural Skills Jazz |
6 |
6 |
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Applied Theory Combo |
1 |
1 |
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Choir Jazz (General) |
1 |
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Theoretical Analysis Jazz |
6 |
6 |
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Applied Piano Jazz |
3 |
3 |
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Rhythmic Solfège Jazz |
1 |
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Percussion & Pulse |
2 |
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Research & Development SKills |
3 |
3 |
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Critical Listening |
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A. Jazz Music History |
2 |
2 |
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B. Listening in context |
1 |
1 |
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Health & Well-being |
1 |
1 |
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Health & Well-being |
1 |
1 |
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International Career Center |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
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Your Art as a Business |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
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Teaching & Outreach Programme |
2 |
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Basic Teaching Skills Lectures |
1 |
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Basic Teaching Skills Instrument Specific Methodology |
1 |
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Minor |
9 |
6 |
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Elective Modules |
9 |
6 |
Before you apply
Admission
requirements
Video Requirements
Share your video recording links in the portfolio. Videos should be uploaded to your own YouTube channel (if you don’t have one yet, please make one). Set your videos on ‘unlisted’ so only you, and we, have access to them.
IMPORTANT: Do not send the actual videos, only the link to your videos.
- Videos should have good audio quality. You can make one longer or various shorter videos.
- Introduce yourself in the beginning of (one) video in English: your name, age, since what age you have played drums, why you like to study in Maastricht and everything else you think is important for us to know.
Video content
- Play as many musical styles as possible that you are familiar with ( must include jazz styles, samba, mambo, shuffle, funk, rock grooves ). Play a groove with variations and improvise with it (also fill-ins). Play these grooves WITHOUT band or play along. Each groove should be between 30 sec and 1 minute long.
- Play various styles ( jazz, funk, latin etc) with a band ( if possible) or with play-along. These should preferably include a drum solo ( form solo, vamp, or tradings)
- Play a snare drum solo ( e.g. from Mitchell Peters books) and accompany yourself by keeping the pulse with your hihat foot. If that is not possible than play as many rudiments as you know ( rolls, flams, paradiddles etc)
- Also include in writing how long you are playing drums, with whom you were studying, if you are playing in a band, and everything else you think is important for us to know.
In case that your material is selected you will get an invitation for an online theory test and if necessary, an online meeting with the main subject teachers.