PRIVATE DRUM LESSONS
"Over 30 years of teaching experience in the San Francisco Bay Area."
(Accepting beginning to advanced students from ages 12 on up)

  • Develop a solid groove, a good feel and a strong sense of time.
  • Improve your basic reading skills.
  • Learn how to sight read.
  • Master new drum fills and better understand the fills you already play.
  • Become proficient at soloing.
  • Improve your stick control.
  • Study matched and/or traditional grip.
  • Learn the basic drum rudiments.
  • Become proficient at playing with a click track.
  • Develop recording skills.
  • Learn how to tune your drums.
  • Acquire a better understanding of song form.
  • Develop a more musical approach to drumming.
  • Expand your proficiency in different drumming styles including: rock, funk, jazz, blues, latin, reggae and big band.

All lessons held in "State-Of-The-Art" music studio with two complete
drum sets, practice pad station, TV/DVD and recording capabilities.


Phone: John Xepoleas - 925.947.2066
E-mail: johnx@thefundamentals.com
John Xepoleas

Read the "Drum Instructors Roundtable" article
from the May 2008 issue of DRUM! Magazine.

John Xepoleas is a member of the Vic Firth Education Team