Drums with Yuichi H.

Yuichi H. started playing drum set in his adolescence, and joined a few concert bands, rock bands, and jazz big bands. In the spring of 1995 he earned a Professional Diploma in Performance and Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, and at The City College of New York, CUNY, NY, he earned a Masters degree in jazz performance in the spring of 2000. Currently as a full-time freelance drummer he appears at various live music venues in New York City, including Blue Note Jazz Club, Birdland Jazz Club and around the tri-state area as well. His own jazz band has performed at Arthur's Tavern in Greenwich Village for about 18 years regularly. John Scofield, Larry Carlton, John Abercrombie, Robben Ford, John Petrucci (Dream Theatre), Percy Heath (MJQ), Ron Carter, Donald Byrd, and Barry Harris are among some of the more notable musicians that Yuichi has performed with. Yuichi is a well-experienced educator. He taught drums at some of prestigious private school in NYC since 2010, at the National Guitar Workshop since 1997. His students range from 9 years old to 65 years old. *** Lesson Details *** After so many years since I grabbed a pair of drum sticks for the first time, I still get the same joy and excitement when I play music with drums. By teaching how to play drums, I like to share this fun with you. In order to do that, I will make an ideal practice plan specifically designed for you. If you know what songs you like to play, then I will show you what to practice on drums and how you are doing. It might be helpful if you understand the song in terms of what it consists in term of verses and choruses, chord changes, instrumentation, etc. Whenever you like, I can talk about these things as well. You could take it as a kind of music theory, but I keep in my mind that your primary interest is getting better on drums. If you do not have particular songs in your mind right now but you want to play drums, No problem. I will be happy to introduce you many different kinds of songs/tunes until you find one to play. Or if you just want to play some hot drum solos, I sure got some great stuff to work on to it. Thank you for visiting my profile site! -Yuichi (pronounce 'you-each-ee') *** Studio Equipment for online lesson*** A set of acoustic drum with an electric drum module *** Specialties *** Drums, Percussion, Electric Bass (beginning to intermediate level), Music Theory, Guitar and Keyboard (beginning level) Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues, R&B, Funk, Latin includes Afro-Cuban, Brazilian