Our Commitment
96 Song to chart and the band leaves in two weeks.
At a rehearsal, you are given 5 pages of measure after measure of music to play.
Auditions, how to do you prepare?
Bands and shows, how do you keep organized?
Many drummers every day are faced with this problem and are forced to solve the problem either by hoping they can memorize all the songs or write an unorganized, hard to read drum chart from scratches they wrote upon a napkin and hope they get it right. Every day, drummers have to play it right the first time without drum music because most composers don’t know how to write drum music and a chart is not available. Drummers are constantly told to just play and then are criticized for not playing it the way the composer/songwriter envisioned the song to sound.
Highly qualified drummers are seeking a solution to a problem that will help them solve all these problems so they can play with confidence, play it right the first time and land better jobs. Beginning drummers and drummers who ready to go pro would jump at a solution to a problem that would help them play with confidence and land a job to accelerate their careers to reach their musical goals. The professionals 25-65 know there is a problem. The 18-24-year-olds are about to find out that there is a problem.
With 40 years of professional music experience, we have solved that problem for drummers, songwriters, and composers with the book “How to Write A Fast and Easy Drum Chart,” Alfred Publishing. We started with a drum chart store called Easy Drum Chart to selling the book and it quickly expanded to selling the single charts we enjoyed writing. With this simple concept, we have designed an online tool to create a simple and easy drum chart fast and easy. This tool is the first of its kind to help drummers, songwriters, and composers to create a drum chart for all of their projects and bands that they work with. Along with a community membership website, drummers are able to create and share charts globally, helping one another to achieve success.
This program is called DrumChartBuilder.
Performance Credits
Pam Tillis
The Sissel Reid Band
Stephanie Urbana Jones
Madame Gandhi
Stella Parton,
Walter Egan
Sterling
Jill Sissel Band,
Alisa Marano,
Faith Reveria
Benita Hill
The Paint Sisters
Heather Davis Band
Charlie Louvin
Carnival Cruise Lines
Nashville Celebration Chorus,
Tennessee Performing Arts Center.
Lisa Carver
Greg Forsman
Anne Mosher
Dave Pomeroy
Charlie Chadwick
The View, Boston, MA.
Calliopes Children Steel Band, Chappaqua, NY.
Opened for Colin Raye and Bryon White
About Liz Ficalora
Her honors include being a published author with Alfred Publishing, First Place Award Winning Jingle Writer for Maxwell House Coffee, Best Americana Album Producer and Best Contemporary Song, JP Folks Award Show 2020, Award Winning Film Composer and a graduate of the Berklee College of Music.
As a performer, she has extensive performance and touring experience with Stella Parton, Charlie Louvin, Billy Prine, Madame Gandhi, Walter Egan, Carnival Cruise Line, Grand Rivers Variety Shows, Sterling, Calliope's Children Steel Band, The Larry Keeton Theatre, Nashville in Harmony Choir, and the Nashville Celebration Choir.
She has played with Pam Tillis and is currently working with The Sissel Reid Band in Nashville TN.
During all her years of performing experience, Liz created and developed a drum charting method and authored the book, “How to Write A Fast and Easy Drum Chart,” published by Alfred Publishing.
This drum charting method book is endorsed by Remo, Louie Bellson and Gary Chaffee, This method is becoming the standard that is used by professional drummers worldwide. She has been featured in Tom Tom Magazine, Drum! Magazine, Rhythm Magazine and Berklee Today.
This book is available at EasyDrumChart.com, a book and drum chart store.
After the release of her book, she created and designed a new drum charting software program called Drum Chart Builder. This program is an online professional tool for drummers, songwriters, and composers to create simple and easy drum charts and is available online at Drumchartbuilder.com, The App Store, Google Play and at Guitar Center.
"This is my dream, to create a program that becomes the standard in drum music software"
Liz Ficalora, CEO of Drum Chart Builder.
As an educator, Liz has taught master classes on drum charting at The Beatkeepers Drum Clinic, JEN, PASIC, MTSU, TSU, 5 Star Drum Shops, Guitar Center, SAE Nashville, Nashville Musicians Union and on Tom Tom Magazine Chops TV.
See Liz in The Beatkeepers, Women with Rhythm and The Beatkeepers, A New Chapter documentaries.