Over the last few years I’ve taught at the British and Irish modern music institute and while really enjoying the experience, I felt it was time to branch out and build my own personal teaching practice.
One of the requirements for teaching at Bimm was to partake in and pass a post-graduate certificate in teaching. This course was highly beneficial to me in my professional teaching career. For my dissertation, I chose to focus on the different ways students learn, namely the Vark system. Visual, Aural, Reading/writing and Kinestetic. With each one of my students I encourage the Vark system of learning but also focus their specific content on whichever learning style suits the student best.
While I hope my students learned a lot from my teaching at Bimm over the last 5 years, it is fair to say I learned just as much from the students. From teaching jazz to techniques, styles to pro music it was a pleasure to learn the syllabus and teach it to the students to the best of my ability.
My hope is to use all of this experience and knowledge for the benefit of my private students whether they be beginners or more advanced students of any age.
All of the below are the various aspects of drumming that I will touch on with each student. As I get to know each students playing and ability it will become obvious what needs to be worked on. This is something that will be a dialogue between myself and the student. At the end of the day, it is vitally important to me that the student feels they have benefitted from each lesson.
Styles across modules include Rock, Pop, Blues, Jazz, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, Trad, R’n’B, Funk, Reggae
Whether looking for lessons for your child or for yourself, we have various options available for you.
(Terms run from Sept-Dec, Jan-Mar, Mar-May, May-Sept). At the start of each term we will ascertain a clear objective to be met by the end of the term. This is an objective we will determine together and will be achievable with practice and focus.
These lessons can be scheduled as frequently as needed and the material undertaken and progress of the student will determine how often the lessons occur.
Lessons times can be set to suit everyone’s schedule and this is a detail that will be set up prior to the commencement of lessons.
Lessons can be held weekly, fortnightly or monthly. This will depend on the goals the student wishes to achieve and the amount of practice time needed to achieve these goals.
“As a drummer/percussionist, I rate him as one of the very top players in the country. ”