Henrique De Almeida

Henrique De Almeida

Professor - Berklee College of Music / TheDrumSetCoach.Com

Professor at the Berklee College of Music, Music Director at www.TheDrumSetCoach.com, Henrique De Almeida holds a Masters Degree in Music Performance from The University of Southern Mississippi. He is also a graduate of The Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. A graduate in Jazz Composition, he is the leader of his own groups, The HenJoSal Trio featuring Berklee Professors Joe Santerre on bass and Sal DiFusco on guitar. He also leads the Jazz Fusion group World News.

As an accomplished author, Henriques educational publications and products are often ranked high in Modern Drummer Magazine (most recent 4.5 star- Double Bass Integration for TheJazz Fusion Drummer)his books are an integral part of the Berklee College of Music curriculum and are currently available through the top publishing companies such Berklee Press, Hall Leonard, Carl Fischer, Amazon.com and online schools such as Drumeo-Canada among others. As a course designer for Berklee, he became a sought-after expert in formulating some of the most successful programs at the college. His expertise with an enormous amount of styles earned him a prestigious and rare full-time appointment as Professor. He filled the position at Berklee that was previously held by the legendary drummer Mike Mangini (Dream Theater). Henrique is in charge of developing, teaching, publishing, maintaining and enhancing Berklee courses related to Pop/Rock, double bass studies, Brazilian music, Afro-Cuban music, Jazz, drum set chart reading, snare rudimental and orchestral reading, the Moeller technique, polyrhythms, brushes, and many other areas of studies. Henrique is also an academic advisor and is member of the Educational Committee “ Curriculum Development. In 2017 Henrique expanded his expertise in creating high level materials and became Music Director & President of the online school www.TheDrumSetCoach.com offering access to drummers all over the world to well-tested, very high level drum set education. For more information, visit TheDrumSetCoach.com.

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  • WHAT INSPIRES YOU?

    Performing my first concert with the Buddy Rich band in Boston was one of the most exiting and frightening things at the same time. The amount of skills we had to have to pull this off was something else. I was the drummer of the Wayne Naus, Buddy Rich tribute band for a few years. Wayne toured and recorded with Buddy. The set list was horrendous: West Side Story, Channel One, Time Check, Ya' Gotta Try, Nutville, Love For Sale, I mean all the hits! Just thinking about it made me nervous. First show went great, I ended up recording and playing with Wayne a lot. And because of that, I also played with many other Buddy Rich alumni artist such as Greg Hopkins, who wrote the famous Buddy Rich band arrangement of "Nutville" then later I played with Phil Willson, who wrote many charts for Buddy's band including "Basically Blues" and the famous " Mercy Mercy Mercy" arrangement that Dave Weckl recorded a few times. Later I was playing a few last minute things with Gloria Estefan, and the great trumpet player Lin Biviano was in the group. He kept looking at me, giving me a thumbs up and smiling! That was cool! Forward to now, the best big band recording I ever did so far has been "Sharing The Freedom" with the Falconaires Jazz Big Band. This recording session is one of the most memorable in my career and I am so glad it is documented. It's on iTunes.

  • WORDS OF WISDOM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF DRUMMERS

    I have two creative sides, one is as a teacher. I am a full time Professor at Berklee, so my students are the inspiration for me to constantly create curriculum that are both inspired by their desires and needs and my desire to help and also grow with then in this journey. My other side is as a artist. My creativity is driven by my desire to offer music that I believe will elevate the level of love among people and the awareness of unity.

  • FAVORITE ZILDJIAN CYMBAL/COMBO

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