San Diego: A Great Place to Teach Drums
By Dave W. - San Diego Drums Teacher
Although I was born in San Diego in 1981, my family moved to Wisconsin when I was very young. Since that time, I have been fortunate to enjoy a successful career as an orchestral percussionist, a jazz and rock musician, a scholar, and a teacher of all things drum and percussion. I moved back to the West coast in September of 2010 to write my (now completed) dissertation and teach drum lessons in San Diego.
I love teaching percussion and drum lessons in San Diego. The weather is beautiful, there are many excellent venues for live music, great orchestras, and no shortage of people interested in learning to play! San Diego also serves as a fine base of operations for my career as a performer. Although I'm in San Diego today, yesterday I was playing xylophone in Mississippi at a symphony concert with violin virtuoso Isaac Perlman; a day earlier I was rocking-out at the Soundwave, Mission Beach's top-notch venue for great original rock 'n' roll; the day before that I was performing a solo concert of tabla music and North Indian classical music on drum set; and next week I will share my passion for percussion, drum set, and music to mass audiences of elementary through high school aged youth.
The core of my daily activity revolves around the students in my San Diego percussion studio. I never leave town for very long because teaching drum lessons in San Diego and working with my students is top priority. Watching them become inspired and learn valuable life skills brings me great joy, and I hope to be teaching drum lessons in San Diego for many years to come.