DRUM LESSONS

Drum Lessons at Pillars

Drum Essentials in Level 1

Drumset Fundamentals: Learn drumset parts, setup, and proper stick grip.

Basic Music Notation: Understand drum-specific music reading for rhythms.

Hand-Foot Coordination: Develop essential coordination for playing beats.

Rhythmic Variety: Master various rhythms including quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes.

Essential Drum Beats: Learn fundamental beats across different musical styles.

Basic Drum Fills: Discover how to create and incorporate simple drum fills.

Drum level 2

Builds on Fundamentals: Continues directly from Book 1, advancing skills and techniques for those ready for more challenging material.

Advanced Techniques: Covers limb independence, half-time grooves, syncopation, funk grooves, and ghost notes.

Genre Exploration: Introduces more complex drumming styles, including jazz drumming, and brush playing.

Performance Skills: Enhances chart reading abilities and teaches concepts for effective drum soloing.

Comprehensive Learning: Provides clear instructions and engaging lessons suitable for both self-learners and students with a teacher.

Multimedia Resources: Includes access to hours of companion audio tracks for demonstration and play-along, plus video lessons by Gregg Bissonette.

Having Fun While Still Learning and Growing As A Drum Student

For drum students, we're serious about the technique and education, but we're also very serious about the fun! Using the Core Principle of LOVE (one of the pillars of Music Pillars - you can read more about that here) we make sure that drum students always have at least one piece of music that they want to learn as part of their repertoire. It doesn't matter the genre or style, we want our students to feel connected to the music they are learning and feel excited and inspired by the learning process. 

Core Principles of Drum Lessons

Drum Lessons at Music Pillars focus on developing well-rounded musicians who can thrive in different musical environments. Our students learn to read standard music notation, and to play intuitively by ear so that they can effectively learn different types of music and play in different types of ensembles. 

Rock Bands - Ensemble Opportunity for Drum Students

The joy of music is multiplied when you do it with others! Our Rock Bands provide excellent opportunities for the growth and development of a drum student, while also making friends and enjoying the social life of being in a band! Students audition to join a band and are placed with fellow students of similar abilities. Many performances around town soon follow!