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Musical Her-story for Mary Ann Martinez

Timeline: 

2005 - July 24th, Mary's 23rd birthday as well as the day she started playing drum set; a dream come true.
  • Private instruction taken for drum set. 

2006 - 2008 -  Studied percussion studies and percussion performance consistently at Los Angeles City College.
  • Performed with LACC's Percussion Ensemble and LACC's Studio Jazz Band.
  • Performed with the Los Angeles Doctor's Symphony Orchestra. 
  • Participated in a Latin Jazz Workshop-Orchestra series with Bobby Matos.
  • Facilitated group drumming experiences for LA's B.E.S.T. program (2007). 
  • Taught individual drum-set lessons for youth aged 5 to 16 years old for City of Los Angeles' Parks & Recreation. (2008)

2009 - Starts playing music for herself; exploring. 

2013 - Mary starts to learn and play the frame drum.
  • She also performs her own original material under the duet name MaMaKoMa with Kori Marquand. 

2015 - Extensive study and emphasis on the frame drum. 
  • Completed Miranda Rondeau's first-ever six-week series class. 
  • Completed Alessandra Belloni's Southern Italian frame drumming "Intro to Rhythm is The Cure" workshop at Remo RMC.
  • Completed the week long Therapeutic Drumming Course with Kalani Das.

​2016 - Mary continues to study frame drumming.
  • Completed Alessandra Belloni's first-ever "Rhythm Is The Cure" 3-day Facilitator training at Remo RMC. 
  • Frame drumming workshop with both Marla Leigh Goldstien and Miranda Rondeau. 
  • Intro to Tambourine with Miranda Rondeau. 
  • Becomes contributor of Therapeautic Drumming Course, and attends for a 2nd year. 
  • Starts teachching private instruction for Rhythm Studies. 
  • Starts composing songs and rhythms for frame drums.

2017 - A year of moving and traveling around.
  • Mary gets the opportunity to go to London for work and decides to raise $2500 to attend Alessandra Belloni's 17th annual "Rhythm Is The Cure" 7 day workshop in Tuscany to better learn Southern Italian Frame Drumming. It was her first trip to Europe.
  • Mary becomes a regular visitor and attendee at Remo's Recreation Center in North Hollywood before its closing.
  • Mary has to move out of her beloved home of 4.5 years, moves to Los Angeles with friends for 1.5 months before moving to Chicago for work. She moved 3 times in 1 year.

2018 - Transplanting.
  • Living out the winter and spring in Chicago, IL, Mary continues to play frame drum and starts playing a little guitar.
  • In May gets to work-vacation at Seaside, Florida where her passion for the Southern Italian style of frame drumming is re-ignited. 
  • In early June she sets out on a 3 month adventure traveling across the northern U.S. states, while also traveling for work, to move back to Los Angeles, CA.
  • In late September she finds a room to rent and settles back in Los Angeles after much camping and couchsurfing since leaving Chicago.
  • Continues to develop original compositions for frame drum.

2019 - Sowing seeds again.
  • Attended Glen Velez & Yousif Sheronick's Frame Drum Intensive in July in Connecticut for her birthday.
  • Buys Layne Redmond's Frame Drum Intensive 6-DVD set. 
  • Performing live on drum set and with frame drum for San Fernando Brewing Co. on Dec 7th, 2019.

2020 - 2021 - 
  • Learning Guitar

2022 - Open for freelance work including accepting new students for learning the frame drum and drumming through Mary's unique approach she calls "Rhythm Studies." Accepting dates for events and facilitation.
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