Carmine T. Guida is a

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-based, nationally recognized musician, teacher and performer. He is also a programmer and creator of online games and apps.

Music

Guida is known primarily for teaching the

doumbek The goblet drum (also chalice drum, tarabuka, tarabaki, darbuka, darabuka, derbake, debuka, doumbek, dumbec, dumbeg, dumbelek, toumperleki, tumbak, or zerbaghali; arz, دربوكة / Romanized: ) is a single-head membranophone with a goblet- ...

, however also plays several other instruments professionally: oud, cumbus,

riq Daf ( fa, دف) also known as Dâyere and Riq is a Middle Eastern (mainly Iranian) frame drum musical instrument, used in popular and classical music in South and Central Asia. It is also used in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Iran, Uzbe ...

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

and

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

. He appears on the ''Beginners Guide To Bellydance

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' released by UK label Nascente, and is described by ethnomusicologist Eric Bernard Ederer as a well-known Cumbus player alongside Steve Vai. Guida was voted ''favorite musician'' in the New Jersey Belly Dancing Peoples' Choice awards. His performances on doumbek have also been favorably reviewed. Jareeda magazine said of his drumming on a Pangia CD (on which he provided all of the drum solos) "Pangia CDs have ... killer drums solos...". His production, as well as musicianship of the Turkish Band Camp All-Stars CD, was also praised He has also appeared in the movie ''Mixed Signals''.

History

Guida was a computer scientist who was CEO of web page development company Team5, when he decided that his time was better spent as a full-time musician. Carmine's first instrument was the Bass Guitar. He was inspired by groups like Rush and entertained audiences with his slap bass stylings, which were made popular by groups like Primus. Carmine started performing in front of live audiences at his local Church, St. Rose of Lima in Massapequa New York.

Performer

Carmine T. Guida has had hundreds of performances inside and outside of the US. He performs in New York City with Middle East meets Brooklyn fusion band Djinn. Their debut album, "The Middle East Side", was favorably reviewed by The Chronicles. Guida has also performed with

-based progressive rock band Pain Hertz. Carmine also performs monthly on Long Island with traditional bellydance music band Baharat.

Releases

Partial discography

Videography/Filmography

Music licensing

Music by Paige23 * Ed - NBC TV * Medium - NBC TV Music by Carmine Guida * Back to the Beginning - ABC TV Music by Djinn * Secrets of the Sistine - ABC TV * Adventures of an Incurable Optimist - ABC TV * Gothic Bellydance Revelations - World Dance New York DVD * Sensual Bellydance - World Dance New York DVD * Belly Dance With Jim Boz - Jim Boz CD * No Reservations (Istanbul episodes) - Travel Channel * Back to the Beginning - ABC TV Music from Shake Em Up * Pop, Lock and Shimmy - Cheeky Girls Productions DVD * Killer Ziller - Cheeky Girls Productions DVD Music from Pangia * American Belly Dance Legends - Amaya Productions DVD Music from Dorku * Music of Turkey: Cultural Crossroads - Carnegie Hall Instructional sheet music/CD

Games and Apps

Guida has created apps and games for Apple and Android and is developing a game for the OUYA console. Guida is developing his multi-player space game Quintet for OUYA in response to requests by backers of a fundraising campaign that supported his development for Android. Guida has also developed a free Unity3D tool Dreamlo, which allows users to store and access data on an online database using HTTP requests.

References

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