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Legendary trumpeter Clark Terry once said that true musicianship can be achieved through imitation, assimilation and innovation. This summer, Tim Carman ’11 intends to tackle the “imitation” aspect; working with an Emerson grant and Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley, he will create a manual of the most important drum grooves for drummers to study.

Students from Lydia Hamessley's Music 154, Music of the World's Peoples, demonstrated Ewe drumming outside Commons on May 6. The students worked on the technique as a class project this semester. Ewe drumming refers to the drumming ensembles of the Ewe people of Ghana, Togo, and Benin.