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Name: Fran Merante

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About Me: Fran Merante is a Drummer / Instructor in the Greater New Haven, Connecticut area and has been
playing drums now for over 33 years. If you ask him, he’ll tell you the most important of
those years were the ones he spent at the Berklee College of Music where he had honed his
drumming skills and teaching concepts. Fran has worked in many facets of the drumming
industry from studio work, to off Broadway musicals, to original and top 40 gigs, to headlining
gigs with his former band, Cubistic Jack. He has played such venues as, Toad’s Place in New
Haven, CT, Fat Daddy’s in Watertown, CT, The Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, CT, Foxwoods
Casino in Ledyard, CT, Le Bar Bat in Manhattan and The Bitter End, Greenwich Village. While
with Cubisitic Jack he also worked with musicians from Blood, Sweat & Tears, The Buddy Rich Big
Band and the Arturo Sandoval group. In addition, Fran played with Styrocultural Antidote, an
original "Progressive Fusion" trio powered by the composing and guitar playing wizardry of Ron
Neuhauser. In this setting, Fran was free to create and progress as a player. To date, he
feels that this was the setting where his drumming was most pushed to its outer limits. He also
served as Drum Technician for New England Sound Company and worked with the Woody Herman
Orchestra, The Arturo Sandoval Band, and Jack Jones. Presently, he operates his drum school,
Concepts In Drumming, out of his home studio. Fran has grown to be a premier drum instructor in
his area. He has an exclusive roster of intermediate and advanced students and is the
instructor to many of the established drum educators in the Connecticut area. He is currently
endorsed by, Sonor, Remo, and The Kelly Shu. He is a member of the Vic Firth Education Team
and also has an endorsement with Vic Firth as an educator. You can find his instructional and
performance videos on YouTube which have earned over a half million views and over 800
subscribers to his channel. YouTube has helped to showcase Fran’s cutting edge teaching
techniques, which were once reserved for his private students, but are now available to the
world. If you were to "GOOGLE" his name, you would witness first hand how far reaching he is
on the internet. His videos and articles have been featured on such websites as:
Drummerworld.com, Hudsonmusic.com, VicFirth.com, and TommyIgoe.com just to name a
few. Because of his love for music and his education from Berklee, Fran is well versed in
all styles with his favorites being Funk and Latin. Fran says, “Of all the rewards that music
has to offer its musicians, the chance to educate other people in the art of playing drums is
the one I relish most. Being able to do something that brings people closer to the same dreams
I had of playing the drums, is an extremely gratifying experience.”

Website: http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Fran_Merante.html