Drum Lessons for Beginners, Intermediates and Advanced.

Over the last few years I have taught at the Institute of British and Irish Modern Music 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. Partaking in 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 Kinesthetic. 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 that I learned just as much from my 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 and every lesson.

It is of course possible to focus solely on any particular style or any aspect of drumming listed below. Again, this is something we can discuss in person.