DrumHead Magazine, and award wining drum author/clinician Pat Gesualdo have launched and exciting new column based on Gesualdo’s Groundbreaking Drum Therapy® techniques. The column will help drum instructors teach special needs students so they can get positive results from their drumming experience.\"Drumhead Magazine is a great outlet for assisting drum instructors in the techniques of drum therapy,® so they can help their special needs students expand physical and cognitive development. The new column will also offer advice for drummers with special needs, and having fought and beaten a major battle with a disability myself as a kid, I know first hand how hard it can be.\"
Pat Gesualdo revolutionized the Drum Industry, and the Special Education Curriculum throughout the world, with his Groundbreaking Drum Therapy® techniques and research. He is an award wining Drum Virtuoso/Author/Clinician, and has performed and recorded for various Columbia, Warner Brothers, Atlantic, RCA, and Paramount Pictures artists and special projects, and has worked on various industry projects with members of Deep Purple, Kiss, Quiet Riot, Halford, and the Metropolitan Opera among others.
He also trains drum instructors and special needs service providers in the modalities of Drum Therapy® throughout the world, including Bosnia, London, New Zealand, Poland, Nigeria, and South Africa, among other Countries.
Gesualdo was nominated to Who’s Who in America, and as an associate voting member for the Grammy awards. He serves as the Special Education Program Director for Vater Percussion, and serves and is the founder/president of the non-profit organization DAD (Drums and Disabilities), which helps children fight disabilities throughout the world.
Gesualdo will be on a North American clinic tour in 2009, lecturing and performing his revolutionary Drum Therapy® techniques, and discussing his non-profit organization DAD.
