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Lessons, Teaching Philosophy, Objectives & Teaching Studioy

Teaching Philosophy
Just as each student is different in their own unique personalities, backgrounds, perspectives and goals, so are their learning styles. By combining my experience in private teaching and teaching music in the school system, I offer appropriate instructional methods and materials to accommodate students different learning styles and needs. It's important for each student to have goals. I will adjust lessons around those ideals, their levels & goals. As an professional educator, I do my absolute best to provide each student with an optimal experience to maximize their learning while instilling in them the passion and love for music & drumming.

Lessons
Lessons are for all level of experience, beginners to advanced players are welcome. Drumming is be obviously fun to be involved with. It evokes creativity & enjoyment in discovering new things about drums & about themselves. Students will be able build confidence & understanding of rhythms, drumming, appreciate different musical styles & their playing. Through lessons students will be better equipped when playing various styles & be more prepared to face & play in band situation, rock band, school concert & jazz bands etc.

An efficient practice schedule & desire to do well is important to achieve success. There are no short cuts to success. The more time you invest into something the more you'll get out of it - Period. Through this comprehensive program, students will broaden their knowledge and growth of drums & drumming while maximizing their learning potential & have fun in the process. During the private lessons I could incorporate & teach from the following topics: (in no order)

- Snare Training (stick grips, rudiments, accents, rolls, exercises warm ups)
- Styles rock, funk, punk, blues, prog rock, swing & jazz, shuffles, reggae, latin, drum-n-bass, metal

- Drum Set Technique (3 & 4 way coordination etc.)
- History of Drumming
- Music History
- Music Theory
- Musical & Drum Terminology
- Sight Reading ( rhythms, charts etc)
- Composition
- Studying Influential Drummers
- Playing Songs
- Ear Training (Listening to music, not just Hearing it.)
- Educational Drum Videos CD's and Play Along CDs.
- Drum Set Maintenance, Repair & Assembly
- Product Knowledge & Information
- Playing with a Metronome etc.
- Practising Properly
- Exploring Different Sounds Sources
- Bass Drum Pedal Technique
- General Musicianship

- Educational Dvd & Play Along cd
- Essential Drum Set Routines
- Showmanship (stick tricks etc.)
- Left Hand/Foot Development
- Song Analysis & Form
- Snare Drum "Scales"
- Drum Tuning
- Drum Fills & Accents
- Playing the right fill for the song
- Groove Playing
- Left Hand Lead
- Various Method Books
- Drum Posture & Positioning
- How to Create your own Fills
- Playing Dynamically
- Playing with Brushes
- Effective Time Keeping Skills
- Interacting with other Musicians

Studying Advanced Drumming Techniques

- Stick & Finger Control Techniques
- Odd Time Signatures 3,5,7,9 & more complex times.
- Linear Drumming
- Polyrhythms & Applications
- Metric Modulations & Implications
- Double Bass Drumming
- Performance & Drum Soloing
- Heal Toe Technique
- One Handed Drum Rolls
- Melodic Concepts
- Building Chops & Drum Licks
- And much more drumming concepts, advice & techniques

- Playing over the Bar Line
- Playing Ghost Notes
- Moeller Stroke Technique
- Beat Displacement
- Double Handed Riding
- Simulated Double Bass Drumming
- Playing Slow Tempos
- Crossovers
- Phrasing & Odd Groupings
- Ostinato Playing

Teaching Studio
The drum studio provides students with a comfortable atmosphere and learning environment. The studio is equipt with two professional great sounding drum sets, an electronic metronome centre with Isolation head phones, a practice pad area with a mirror, a work area for theory and composition and fully equipt library and media centre. The library contains a wide variety of educational drum books that encompasses different drumming styles and techniques to learn from. The Media Centre contains a wide variety of instructional and educational drum videos, DVD's, Music CD's and over 450 play along songs that will be integrated over the course of the students' on going lessons.

Studio Layout

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