About Mike Trabulsie
"The greatest loss is not death, it's what dies inside us while we live"!
Mike has devoted his life to perfecting himself and his musical artistry. Mike is a deeply schooled, practiced and skilled musician; an exciting, world-class professional drummer, a piano and multi-keyboard player, an accomplished songwriter, composer, music producer, a published author, a successful entrepreneur, and after 30 years of disciplined training in traditional karate holds a 3rd degree black belt.
Mike is an Alumnus of the world-renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston Massachusetts and holds a bachelor's degree in Music Production and Engineering.
During Mike's formative years, he taught approximately 500 drum students and is an authority on drum education. Recently, Mike launched "Mike Trabusie's Institute for the Artistry of Drumming"; a digital / on-line drum instruction school where Mike has recorded and made available approximately 450 video drum lessons with many more in production.
As an author, Mike has written and published 8 drum instruction books. To date, Mikes' published books are; “Rock Drumming Techniques Book 1”, “Mastering The Double Bass Drum Shuffle”, "A Mathematical Approach to Double Bass Drum Mastery", "A Mathematical Approach to Bass Drum Control", "An Introduction To Odd Time Signatures", "Explosive Double Bass Drums", "Rock Drum Fills (volume 1)", "Articles (volume 1)", and "Rock Drum Charts" which includes over 300 of Mikes' transcriptions of popular rock songs. Mike has also written and published a book on the art of living called "The Book of Guidance, Wisdom, and Inspiration; a powerful guide to artful living", and another titled the "Dreams Workbook; a practical method for achieving success", being prepared for future publication.
Also during Mike's formative years, he established and built a Boston based booking agency called "Creative Entertainment". They provided entertainment for corporate events, nightclubs, hotels, country clubs, and all types of private events, and was the main referral agency for many country clubs and for some of Boston’s top hotels. During the peak of Mikes tenure, his agency booked over 1,000 events annually, employed over 300 musicians as well as a small staff of administrators and booking agents. Mikes agency also helped launch the careers of many up and coming local artists.
As a performer, Mike had the opportunity to play thousands of performances with all types of bands and received dozens of impressive accolades as well as interest from many national artists, performers, managers and industry professionals. In 1997 Mike was heard by the great Ian Anderson of 70's superstar rock band Jethro Tull who told Mike to "keep in touch in case the drum chair in "Tull" becomes available"!
From 2005 to 2019 Mike disappeared into the Mountains of Northern New England, and while there lived an isolated but beautiful, organic, and productive mountain life. Mike spent those years refining and maturing his musical artistry and built a deep body of original works! As a songwriter, Mike has written and built an impressive original song catalog of approximately 200 songs and is a member of ASCAP. Mike also built a commercial grade Pro Tools HD recording studio called Ascension Recording Studios, where he has been producing many of his original songs.
The last 12 years, Mike devoted to the writing, scoring, arranging, of a unique rock opera which has the dimensions to become the greatest rock opera of all time! More recently, Mike has spent the last 19 months recording and producing the rock opera working with musicians from all over the United States. Mike is nearing completion and is currently working to bringing it to market!