Northwood Drum Lessons

Santa has delivered some more certificates today - congratulations to George, Ishan and Henry!

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Congratulations to all my students who have taken their Trinity Rock & Pop exams this year, having had to learn most and in some cases, ALL of the grade material via ONLINE LESSONS.
The first batch of certificates have arrived for students who took their exams during the summer and I can't wait to hand them out!

Thursday will be last day of lessons before the Christmas Break.

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Face-to-face lessons restarting next week and we have a new onlooker to keep everything in check! ;)

Final preparations for the first face-to-face lessons in 6 months!!

Whoever said practice should stop on holidays?!?! Fire-diddles are the order of the day!

I've been inspired to do many things during this lockdown:

Doing more drum practice myself!
Start practicing my other instruments (video evidence shows they need it!)
Do more baking/eat more healthily
Speak to people more on the phone.

Then hearing so many of my musician friends putting out various solo/collaborative remote recordings, I felt inspired to write and record this little arrangement.

Enjoy.......and keep practicing!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-N0Yv7rvc

Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Lockdown Arrangement) Missing not having any musical interaction at the moment during this CV lockdown, so when I was hearing various people playing this song on their doorsteps, ...

Anyone looking for online guitar tuition, speak to Peter Elliot

The pros and cons of online music lessons | Guitar Teacher Bushey We compare the main benefits and drawbacks of online and face-to-face lessons to help you decide which platform is the best fit for you.

Here's a challenge for you to try.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-manchester-52297848/weather-presenter-goes-viral-drumming-to-bbc-news-theme

Drumming BBC weather presenter goes viral Owain Wyn Evans finishes his weather forecast by playing along to the BBC News theme tune.

We are now up and running to continue your lessons online!

Click on the link for more details: https://www.northwooddrumlessons.com/onlinelessons

Passion for performance and teaching can be difficult to balance in one career. Here's what three teachers say they love about delivering the Rock & Pop syllabus - and how it helps them enjoy their life as a gigging musician and as an ambitious music teacher. http://ow.ly/C3Ko50x1EGD

As I teacher, I believe it is really important to keep active as a performing musician so that I can pass all my experiences onto my students.
I have recently been interviewed by Trinity Rock & Pop as part of a teacher case-study where I talk about this amongst a few other things. Please check out the article by clicking on the link below:

https://learn.trinitycollege.co.uk/rock-pop-teacher-case-studies

Mum's and dad's, it's time to give your child drummers an extra hug today!!

NATIONAL HUG A DRUMMER DAY - October 10, 2019 | National Today Behind every song that stirs your soul, there’s a drummer keeping a beat. Whether you listen to pop, rock, jazz, country, hip-hop or soul, it’s a drummer who makes all your favorite songs get up and move. That’s why every October 10th, we celebrate National Hug a Drummer Day — a day for givi...

Off on Summer Holiday tomorrow so Northwood Drum Lessons will be taking a break until 10th September. In the meantime here are the final batch of summer exam certificates - special congratulations to those students taking their very FIRST exams!

Congratulations to: Aadil, Amrit, Drew, Etienne, George, Ilyaan, Layla, Rolabi, Samuel, Samvir, Sophia, Varun and Zak!!

After a busy week on the road with Mr Bloom & His Band, how lovely to come home to another set of fantastic exam results from our Trinity Rock & Pop candidates. Rockschool results on the way soon!

Wow, who'd have thought the summer holidays would be such a busy time - MORE GREAT exam results coming in every day (photos to follow soon) - WELL DONE to all my students!
And back from few days off playing at some great festivals with Cbeebies Mr Bloom & His Band

Taking a few days break from a busy teaching schedule to entertain the tiddlers!

Happy Summer Holidays to those of you who have already broken up!! In the thick of exam season at the moment and some great results coming back so far. Congratulations to everyone who has already sat their exams.
First batch of certificates through - more to come

When it comes to your dreams, you gotta go for it and work hard to chase them - you never know what might happen...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-suffolk-48665266/lenny-kravitz-jams-with-nine-year-old-drummer

Nine-year-old drums with Lenny Kravitz Nandi Bushell wowed the singer-songwriter when she posted videos of her skills on Instagram.

Lots of exams happening at the moment. At Northwood Drum Lessons, we like to make sure all students are as well-prepared as possible and are feeling confident. For this reason, we always do a .

Love it when students show true commitment!!

How's THAT for commitment! Well done to Alexis who would not let a broken ankle stop her from coming to her drum lesson!!

How's THAT for commitment! Well done to Alexis who would not let a broken ankle stop her from coming to her drum lesson!!

Northwood Drum Lessons has been getting really busy recently - new students joining and now preparing for a busy exam period over the next couple of months...
In the meantime, Adam will also be busy appearing as his alter ego 'Rodney', playing with CBeebies Mr Bloom & His Band at many of your favourite family festivals, amongst other gigs

I've discovered the original Beyonce lyrics before she went through the rewrite!

One of the many avenues of work you can aspire to as a professional percussionist/drummer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BWupY8d_E8

Behind the Scenes: Percussion Loft | Crazy for You | Stratford Festival 2014 A behind the scenes tour of the orchestra loft during a Crazy for You performance with percussionist Graham Hargrove who plays 26 instruments during every pe...

Who can make the best musical instrument out of snow??

An important part of learning an instrument is understnading it‘snrole within the band/ensemble. Check out this documentary presented by Stewart Copeland who was the drummer for The Police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0001y8k/guitar-drum-and-bass-series-1-1-on-drums-stewart-copeland

Guitar, Drum and Bass - Series 1: 1. On Drums... Stewart Copeland! Stewart Copeland explores why drums are essential to modern popular music.

Panto is well and truly behind me now - teaching is back in full swing. Here's a video of a drumming legend to inspire you to make an even bigger effort in 2019!

Notice how he stops the band and starts again because he thought they could play it better!! Also, check out the drum solo towards the end!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOwH-wj5SsE

Buddy Rich Bugle Call Rag live 1982 beliau berkata yg tidak berkemampuan akan jatuh ke musik rock damn...| awesome skill

We are over halfway through the run of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Watersmeet, having done a marathon 3 shows yesterday!!
To my students - hope the drum sticks aren't getting too neglected this Christmas!! 😉🥁🤘🥁
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