Our Lessons
Drum lessons at Jeremy Sibson Performance & Education are tailored to the individual student. Emphasis is placed on reading and understanding music in a contextual manner. Students are encouraged to listen widely to many styles so as to broaden their understanding of the place of drums in modern pop and rock music.
Create your own YouTube drum video
Once students have reached a level where they are competent enough to read and play drum charts there is an opportunity, should they wish, to record their drumming on video and audio to produce their own YouTube or social media drum cover film clip. Students are also taught some basics of audio recording, filming, and post production in both.
Styles Taught
Most styles of modern popular music are taught here at Jeremy Sibson Performance & Education. Jazz and Big Band can also be studied if desired as can rudimentary drumming.
The studio has double kick pedals for students who wish to venture into the realms of Metal styles.
Students are taught Pop, Rock, Reggae, Latin, Country, and some Afro-Cuban styles.
The Studio
Our studio boasts an impressive array of drum kits, snare drums, and percussion.
Pearl Reference Kit: 22″ kick, 8″, 10″, 12″, 14″, 16″ toms
Tama Superstar kit (The teaching kit): 22″ kick, 8″, 19″, 12″, 14″, 16″ toms, 14″ snare
Premier Signia kit: 22″ kick, 10″, 12″, 14″, 16″ toms, 14″ snare
Drouyn 1965 Jazz kit: 20″ kick, 12″ tom
Snare drums:
- Pearl Masterworks 8 x 14 wood
- Pearl 3 1/2 x 14 Brass free floating piccolo
- Dandy 6 x 14 vintage wood
- Slingerland 5 1/2 x 14 Gene Krupa steel shell
- Gretsch 5 1/2 x 14 1956 wood
- Mapex 8 x 12 Black Panter
- Ludwig 5 1/2 x 14 Sensitone steel
- Yamaha 5 1/2 x 14 Absolute Hybrid Maple
Percussion: LP Timbales, Pearl Bongos, DG Cajons, Darboukas, Bodhrans, Pearl concert toms (8,10,12,13,15,16,18)
Recording Studio
We offer a remote (or in situ) recording service for drum and percussion tracks for your music. We use Reaper and ProTools as our DAWs of choice and run through an RME Fireface 802 interface. We have a choice of mic pre amps including a Sebatron VMP Quadplus 4 channel valve mic pre, Behringer Ultragain Pro 2 channel valve mic pre, Focusrite Clarett Octopre 8 channel.
Microphones:
- 2 x Rode M3s
- 4 x Sennheiser e904 Tom mics
- 2 x AKG Perception 170 condensers
- 1 x Sennheiser e906 guitar mic
- 2 x Shure SM57s
- 1 x Shure SM81
- 2 x Warm Audio WA 47jnr fet condensers
- 4 x EV RE 320 Tom mics
- 2 x Sennheiser e602 II kik mics
- 1 x Shure beta 919 kik mic
- 1 x EV N/D 868 floor tom mic
- 1 x Rode NTK vocal mic
Call us to discuss your recording needs.
Bodhran Tuition
For those interested in learning the Irish frame drum, the bodhran, we also tuition in this. Jeremy has been playing bodhran for 25 years and has learnt with some of the world’s best players including Johnny “Ringo” McDonagh, Junior Davey, Rolf Wagels, Mel Mercier, Jim Higgins, Colm Phelan, Robbie Walsh, Martin O’Neill, and Eamon Murray.
Wheelie Bins
Drumming Levels Guide
Beginners
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Intermediate
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Advanced
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