EPIC Acapella Zill Performance! The Shimmy Sirens @ Migrations Dance Festival 2023
I wasn’t entire certain this performance was going to happen.
I had been threatening (errr…promising) to create an acapella finger cymbal composition for my students for many years.
But when the time would come, I would start doubting the process and end up sticking to something more familiar to them.
And when I finally decided to take the plunge and started breaking down these zill riffs, I immediately wondered if I had made a mistake. Some of the dancers who were new to my class admitted to not really having played finger cymbals before. And others really struggled with the rhythms.
But once we were a couple months into the process and there was no going back I began to see the vision taking shape. And they did too.
I am so freaking proud of these amazing dancer-musicians for what they accomplished with this epic number.
It just goes to show you…you can do anything you set your mind to.
And we don’t need no stinking music.
Enjoy!
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Want to learn to do what these dancers have done here? Then you’ll definitely want to check out my signature course – “Acapella Finger Cymbal Foundations”, which will teach you the concepts and musical building blocks I use when I create acapella compositions for myself and my students.