Skill Path: Learning Rhythms & Building Confidence with Drum-Based Dance

Step 1 — 10-Day Drum Solo Challenge

Includes:

• Hips Warm-Up & Mobility

• Precision of Hip Accents

• Upper Body & Hip Isolations

• Belly Flutter & Shimmies

• Rhythms Review

(From Drum Solo Essentials: 10-Day Skill Boost)

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Step 2 — Understanding & Dancing to Rhythms

Includes:

• Identify Belly Dance Rhythms (with Pedro Bonatto) - from TIPS4HIPS membership program (Zoom class recording)

• Maksum + Melfuf

• Masmoudi Saghir + Wahda

• Masmoudi Kibira + Other Popular Rhythms

• Rumba, Waltz & Fox

(From “My Dance Breakthrough” course)

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Step 3 — Core Practice & Improvisation

• Rhythms & Improvisation Session (with Nicolas Kirilis – recorded Zoom class)

(From Drum Solo Intensive with Nicolas Kirilis)

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Step 4 — Drum Solo Choreography

• Drum Solo Choreography with Julia Farid (Zoom class recording)

(From Drum Solo Intensive 2025)

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Bonus Material

• Tips4Hips Rhythms Workbook (PDF) – your essential guide to understanding, practising, and remembering all the rhythms covered in this Skill Path.