Kurt B.
Des Moines, IA, 50311
Subjects Taught Drums
About Me
I have been playing drums since age 4 (my dad was also a professional drummer who got me started with a solid foundation). In junior high school I played in the typical "garage band" settings with some other musician friends of mine.
School music programs were a very important part of my background. I played in the percussion sections and eventually jazz bands in junior high and high school. As a senior at Valley High School in West Des Moines I was the percussion section leader of the Valley Marchmasters 35 member percussion section.
I got my first "professional" (paid) gig at age 14 when I was asked to be the pit drummer for a musical at the Purple Cow Dinner Theater (which became the Ingersoll Dinner Theater).
I received a full\-ride scholarship to play drums at Grand View University where I attended for 1.5 years before transferring to Drake University to study Advertising and Public Relations in the School of Journalism.
While at Drake I played snare drum in...





