About the Smokin Drummer How to Write A Fast and Easy Drum Chart

Owner of Ficalora Music Productions, Liz Ficalora is a drummer, educator, clincian, producer, engineer, and author. Liz has years of musical experience as a Nashville drummer, teacher and producer. She produced The Paint Sisters with John Carter Cash. Liz has performed, produced, engineered and orchestrated album projects for Nashville artists and works with songwriters such as Lisa Aschman and Jack Fowler, producing songwriter demo’s ready for film production and music row in Nashville. As an educator, Liz teaches drums, percussion and piano privatly in the Williamson County area of TN. She currently has a full roster of piano and drum students.

Liz created and released a new drum charting system. She has developed a method and authored the book “How To Write a Fast and Easy Drum Chart.” In June, 2008, Liz published a website www.easydrumchart.com A successful website to sell her method to dedicated drummers who want to learn how to write a drum chart for cover and original music. This method is endorsed by Louie Bellson and Gary Chaffee and Nashville session drummers Currently she teaches a master class based on her book and has been invited to teach this master class at PASIC 2011.

As a drummer, her extensive travel includes touring with Stella Parton and world travel as a drummer and arranger for the Carnival Cruise Line. She is currently performing with national acts, Jack Fowler, The Heather Davis Band and Nashville artist, Jill Sissel. For the past 5 years, she has been performing with the First Church Unity Ensemble.

Liz is native New Yorker and graduate from Boston’s Berklee College of Music with a Bachelor in Music Education and has earned a National Award for her jingle composition for Maxwell House Coffee. Her underscoring and composition work has appeared in the documentary "Preservation Works" produced by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the movie “Richard II,” directed by John Farrell.

As a teacher, she will continue teaching her master class to students in private schools and colleges to inspired drummers and promote her original drum charting method worldwide.