![]() About 20 minutes before the sun leaves our view in the west we climp up to the edge of a cliff overlooking other peaks in our sundown.Įverybody has a percussion instrument. There were about 40 or so people up on top of a pine covered mountain celebrating what we called Mountain-fest. Rob Goerlitz said.I have had wonderful experiences with drums and all percussion instruments. Eddie I think what you are doing is so commendable. I too, worked with Delaney Bramlett, doing promotion on this last CD,"A New Kind Of Blues" until his untimely death due to complications from Gall Bladder Surgery. this a very cool what Eddie is doing now. Steve Fischler said.Music is very healing. His story is an inspiration to the musician in all of us. ![]() Today he is the founder of The Rhythmic Arts Project, created to enhance the lives of people with disabilities utilizing rhythm, djembe drums, and other percussion instruments. He truly feels the joyful spirit of drumming and the way it can be used as a tool for teaching and healing. Since his injury, Eddie has happily accepted his new path in life to help others through music. While at a conference, he was introduced to the field of developmental disabilities and learned how percussion and drums are used with developmentally challenged kids to result in a true learning experience over time. This program earned formal therapeutic merit and was widely accepted at conferences across the country. The drumming was used as a tool to address rehab goals and focused on regenerating nerves, attention span and memory in patients. It moves us in a positive direction mentally, physically, and spiritually." Eddie said reflecting on the moment.Īs Eddie gained mobility, they formalized the music making into a drum circle involving occupational therapists. "Rhythm comes from a place deep inside all of us, a place no physical trauma can reach. The basic rhythms of percussion and clapping were making trama patients feel alive and hopeful. Other patients in the ward joined in on the rhythm and the happiness it created.īy experiencing these simple moments of joy through music with people outside of his career of playing drums as a living, he began to understand music at an entirely new level. As soon as he cleared through the haze of surgery, he managed to get percussion instruments in his ward and began to work on his groove by tapping a stick against his bed frame. It took a six hour spinal surgery and a week in ICU to repair the damage from that wave.Įddie was then transferred to The Rehabilitation Institute in Santa Barbara where both physical and spiritual healing occurred. Eddie was instead fighting his likely fate of being a quadriplegic after his last wave for the day slammed him to the bottom of the ocean and broke his neck. He didn't make it to the gig that night or to the two tours he landed for the fall. On a warm September night in 1997, Eddie was catching a few waves in Carpinteria before heading to his gig at a pizza restaurant in Santa Barbara with blues artist, Sky Ferguson. John, Ike Turner and many others.īut it wasn't until his near death experience did he truly experience the layers of love and healing in the music he created. His professional drumming career has spanned over 40 years working with artists such as Delaney Bramlett, Bobby Whitlock, The Beach Boys, Dobie Gray, Del Shannon, Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band, Dr. Playing his first paid gig at age 12 in 1959, Eddie Tuduri has lived every aspect of a drummer's life. ![]() Drums transcend normal logic the inherent healing and positive qualities have enhanced something very personal to me, my own recovery."
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