Music educator Bob Habersat’s Shedthemusic.com embraces the Modern Band concept as a school-based music program. Utilizing popular music as its central canon, the site teaches students to perform, compose and improvise the music they know and love. Sonor salutes this endeavor and has joined forces to support Shedthemusic.com and spread this modern band concept further through traditional music education circles, while providing a pathway to high quality and affordable drum set products for young drummers and rhythm sections. “The New Mapex Venus Series drumkits are perfect for any band program looking for an approachable way to get the Shedthemusic.com curriculum started” states Mapex Brand Manager Jeff Mulvihill, “It’s one easy purchase of drumset and cymbals together, making it quick and seamless to get started making music.”

Shedthemusic.com provides tools and curriculum for educators to teach and share the joy of music through multi-instrument experience and pop music building blocks. Shedthemusic.com offers a 6-week “Beat Bootcamp” and video tutorials of modern band styles to integrate modern music easily into the classroom in a meaningful way. “This curriculum is A-MAZ-ING! Bob has broken down the steps to successfully learn how to teach digital musical composition,” states Alexis Yatuzis-Derryberry, President of the Tennessee Music Education Association, “The teacher portal has videos of Bob going through each lesson step-by-step so you can present the material to your students as an expert. This curriculum is the NOW of music education.”

For more information please visit www.mapexdrums.com and www.shedthemusic.com.