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Jim Greiner is an internationally renowned percussionist, educator, drum circle [] facilitator, and inspirational speaker based in the Monterey Bay area of California. Greiner facilitates interactive group drumming programs worldwide, including drum circles, for corporate team building [] and leadership [], conference ice breaking and keynotes, as well as for community, school and private groups.

Greiner plays Congas, Bongos, Timbales, Djembe, Ashiko, Shekere and other shakers, Udu, cymbals, gongs, bells and percussion effects in a wide range of musical styles, including Rock, R&B, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Reggae, contemporary and traditional African and Caribbean and Pop.

Greiner is an endorser/clinician for Latin Percussion Instruments (LP), Sabian Cymbals, ProMark Drumsticks, Gibraltar Drum Hardware, Audix Microphones and Factory Metal Percussion.

He is Head Artist of LP's Recreational & Community Program, as well as being a member of LP's Educational Advisory Board and regularly contributes articles and instructional videos to LP.

Greiner is the percussionist for The Bill Hopkins Rockin' Orchestra and performs with them at corporate events and resorts worldwide.

He teaches classes and workshops in hand drums and hand percussion instruments, as well as Drum Circle Facilitation Skills, in schools and communities throughout North America and beyond.

Corporate Team Building Since the 1980s, Greiner has used interactive drumming and rhythm-based programs for corporate team building and for conference ice breaking and keynotes. His programs are based upon using rhythm-playing as a vehicle to build communication and cooperation skills, and to create a spirit of celebration.

Percussion Clinics and Workshops Greiner's workshops, clinics, and drum circles cover: the fundamentals of various percussion instruments, staying relaxed while playing, listening and communicating with other musicians, traditional and contemporary techniques and rhythms, the universal principles of rhythm that are found in cultures worldwide, and having fun. They are designed to be accessible for people from all walks of life, as well as to be a way to create and reinforce positive life rhythms.

Greiner has also taught workshops and led drum circles at the prestigious Percussive Arts Society International Conference (PASIC). He has also led a five-hour workshop in his Drum Circle Facilitation techniques at PASIC. He has also conducted clinics at several of the annual National Association of Music Merchants/International Music Instruments trade shows at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

Greiner's instructional/inspirational video/DVD, "Community Drumming for Health & Happiness" was produced by LP in 1994, and is currently being distributed by

LP

Alfred Publishing

and Jim Greiner's Hands-On! Drumming Events.

Awards Greiner has won the Drum!Magazine Readers Poll Awards for:

-Drum Circle Facilitator of the Year: 2001, 2005 & 2006

-Percussion Educational Video of the Year for Community Drumming for Health & Happiness: 2004 & 2005

-Percussion Clinician of the Year: 2006

He has also won

-Certificate of Recognition for 'Excellence in Percussion Education" from ProMark Drumsticks, 1995.

-Career Mentor Award from Santa Cruz County (California) in 2008 from Your Business is Our Future organization.

Videos  This DVD covers; how to play a number of hand drums and hand percussion instruments, how to play them in a drum circle situation, and the physical, mental and emotional benefits of playing drums and percussion.
 * "Community Drumming for Health & Happiness"

 This 'Rhythm Power' DVD covers beginning to advanced levels of playing the Shekere [] and contains inspirational 'Life Rhythm Skills' messages from Greiner, as well as four (ten minute) play-along audio loops.
 * "Play Shekere"