Teachers

Drum Noah plays many different types of music such as Funk, Afro Cuban, Rock, Middle-Eastern, and Indian Jazz. He has taught these styles of drumming to many students of all ages with a systematic and developmental approach to music. Noah was privileged to study under the direction of the late, great jazz drummer Tony Williams. Noah received the San Francisco Jazz Festival's annual Berkeley College of Music Scholarship and earned his Bachelor's of Music at this prestigious music school. Noah traveled to Cuba to learn and see the roots of Afro-Cuban music. Currently Noah performs with bands around the Bay area. ||  ||   || Sean Nelson Sean Nelson has nearly a quarter century of experience of performing, recording and teaching drums. He began studying drums privately in 1983 and first performed professionally two years later in his home town of Cape Cod, MA. In the fall of 1992 he attended the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music in Holland where he continued to study jazz drumming and piano. In 1994 he received a bachelor of arts degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. Shortly after moving to the bay area in 1995, Sean began teaching drum set and rhythm classes at the Community Music Center in San Francisco. He worked for Bronstien Music School in South San Francisco from 1998-2005. In the summer of 2006 he started teaching private lessons at ‘A Drummers Tradition’ in San Rafael. Sean has performed a wide range of musical styles in various professional settings throughout his career. In 2003 he recorded and toured with Bob Rock and the Payola$. He has performed with Michael Franti and members of Spearhead as part of a world music event in San Francisco and regularly jams with guitarist Kirk Hammett. Sean is an original member of the ‘Super Human Crew’ an urban world music project that collaborates with the hip hop band Felonious as well as singers from Cuba and Brazil. He continues to perform and record with many talented songwriters and musicians. Alex Aspinall A talented Bay Area drummer who studied under the direction of George Marsh, Alex has a broad range of playing and teaching experience. When he is not teaching, he spends a good amount of time performing with Randy Vincent, Edo Castro, Erik Lindquist, Gentry Bronson, Michael Lamacchia and the San Francisco swing band “Lee Press On and the Nails.” Check him out on Randy Vincent’s new release “Nisha’s Dream”
 * Noah Waldman