Bio
Nucleo Vega is an accomplished performer, educator, author, and clinician. A graduate of the University of Maryland's jazz program, his teachers include Mike Shepherd, Steve Fydik, Sean Rickman, Jeff Ballard, Dave Throckmorton and Chuck Redd.
Shortly after graduating college, Nuc was awarded the First Year Educator of the Year award in Howard County, Maryland. He went on to publish his first book at the age of 27, Mel Bay's Understanding Groove for Drumset, which was featured in Modern Drumme...
Press
"Harpist April Stace, percussionist Nucleo Vega and bassist Posido Vega play together with uncommon symmetry, infusing their music with both passion and an understated grace, even elegance. Passage contains moments of mirth and playfulness, but also beauty and warmth. "
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Status
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Never in Denver:: Windmills CD is on itunes!
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Blog
Paradiddles Redefined Part 1
Dec 28, 2009 at 08:41 AM
What is a paradiddle? Is it merely just a sticking (RLRR,LRLL)? Or can it also be the pattern and sound of twocontrasting examples (ABAA, BABB)? I found the later to bevery freeing, in that I was not just stuck to a certain sticking.In fact, seeing a paradiddle as two contrasting examples hasdone the following:
Expand my vocabulary overnight, tenf...
