PulseWave Percussion

PulseWave Percussion offers drum circles, DrumDance parties and performances with various ensembles and styles, and community drum circles and rhythm-based events for businesses and family gatherings. The program includes private and semiprivate lessons, private classes, group workshops, interactive drum clinics, and workshops based in rhythmic education. Students can study conga drumming, djembe/dundun, cajon and percussion, Brazilian and Cuban percussion, hand percussion with sticks, bells, shakers and drums, as well as EmBody Rhythm, Rhythm Fitness (learning rhythm while walking), World Music Survey, Time Counts, and the Sacred Sound Lab, along with rituals and healing retreats.

• Schedule: Downloadable lessons, instructional DVDs and CDs are available for ongoing study.

PulseWave Percussion is led by Kim Atkinson, who has been teaching drumming since 1976 and offers classes and workshops in California and around the country. The PulseWave percussion method seeks to describe, teach and impart music using both micro (pulse) and macro (wave) perspectives, and includes a focus on the ABC’s of Rhythm: African, Brazilian, Cuban, with rhythms described as archetypal, complex and mysterious. Kim Atkinson’s work has been recognized as college prep material by UC Berkeley, and he is fluent on more than 30 percussion instruments. PulseWave Percussion sponsors percussion clinics all over the country and provides percussive entertainment to festivals, corporate events, and parties. Testimonials describe Kim Atkinson as a superb and gifted teacher, a master, a born teacher with tireless enthusiasm and deep conceptual understanding, and note that both novices and professionals study and enjoy the lessons, CDs, and DVDs.

Last updated June 26, 2026.