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All techniques and styles covered - just ask!

...ARE YOU A COMPLETE BEGINNER and want to learn the drums but don\'t know which teacher to choose? - I will get you playing rhythms and fills by the end of the first lesson AND give you a good grounding in technique. You\'ll be surprised just how easy and fun it can be!...

...HAVE YOU PLAYED FOR A WHILE but feel like you always play the same beats and fills? Feel that your technique needs some improvement? Feel like you want to play faster and cleaner? - I will get you thinking more creatively about the drums and give you the tools and techniques needed to get you sounding like a Pro!

...HAVE YOU PLAYED FOR A LONG TIME and feel you want to know more? Learn some other styles? Do you feel like you should be better than you are considering you\'ve played for so long? I used to feel that way a while back. But what has taken me years to develop I can pass onto you in just a few lessons! I can teach you my approach to the drum kit inspired by a mixture of studying not only the greatest drummers of all time but also the great classical composers. We\'ll look at themes, motivic development, use of dynamics, structure, techniques, tricks and so on, to get you playing more musically and keeping your audience gripped!

RATES:
ONLY £15 for a 1 hour session!

ABOUT ME:
25yo male drummer
13 years playing with 10 years teaching and performing experience including live bands, recording and West End shows.
Classical background with BA Music Hons.
Have taught pupils from a range of abilities and a range of ages from 8 to 35.

WHERE:
Lessons are taught in South East London in music room with 2 drum kits... or I can visit you anywhere in London.

TOPICS:
Vast range of areas covered (please enquire if not included here)
- Basics: rudiments, grip, rhythms/grooves, fills, substitution, playing in various time signatures, dynamics
- Drum notation, transcription and sight/reading
- How to play musically and compliment other musicians with your playing
- Building rhythms using all four limbs, paradiddles, ostinatos
- Technique: single stroke roll (wrist, fingers), double stroke roll (wrist, fingers), the Moeller technique, one handed roll (open-close and freehand methods)
- Double bass: including singles, the heel-toe method and rolls
- Solo concepts: from short solo breaks, to the extended solos of Bonham and Weckl etc, and compositions using motifs, phrases, structures and development etc.
- Preparing for Grade Examinations 1-8.