New Course Now Available - Beginner to Band: Next Level

I’m happy to say that I am back teaching at my San Francisco studio! We have an indoor mask mandate here in the City, and we are continuing to do our best to stay safe and rock out at the same time. It’s been nice making noise in here again and I look forward to more students returning to the studio, when they are ready.

Wishing everyone good health and peaceful homebound contentedness during these unusual times. We have been sheltering in place here in San Francisco for about two weeks now and many of my in-person students have now returned to lessons online. I am now extending the online lesson platform to new students, as well.

Right? Everything has – so no more live music for now. All of my upcoming performances with Shana Morrison and Elettrodomestico are either cancelled or postponed.

The Elettrodomestico Tour opening for the Psychedelic Furs will likely be rescheduled – stay tuned for the new dates.

Excited that my new book, Beginner to Band is now out in the world! It is available as a digital download direct from the publisher here: www.onlinedrummer.com or as a hard copy book via Amazon.

This book has a very specific drumming goal in mind – playing music and songs with other people in a band. Beginner to Band was designed as a practical and useful guide for learning to play the drums, and can be used as a self-directed guide or along with an instructor. Written with the beginner in mind and with clear and simple directions, each section builds upon the last to create a strong drumming foundation through effective exercises.

On October 13, UMe will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Bigger, Better, Faster, More!‘s release with a special vinyl edition of this classic LP, marking its first-ever American vinyl release. In addition to its standard black-vinyl release, the anniversary LP will also be released in a limited Custom Opaque Green colored-vinyl edition that will be available exclusively through the online retailer uDiscover

Dang – how I have neglected this blog thing! Anyway, here I am back again – hoping to better in the future. I have been thinking lately about how I drum on demo projects or albums where it is not a technically a “band” and most people that I know might not be aware of

Hey and what’s going on? Well, something I thought might never ever happen – a reunion of 4 Non Blondes! Yep – we did get back together for one show in LA this past May and it was quite an adventure. It was really great to see everyone again and to play some music for

My latest drum project, Chart Topping Fills, is now available at www.onlinedrummer.com. I want to explain a little bit about how this project might be useful.