Tuition

As an educator, Reuben has taught over 10,000 drum lessons to over 400 different students. With a passion for passing on knowledge and practical, beneficial skills, Reuben has become one of the most in demand tutors in Wellington. 

Institutions taught at include: The New Zealand School of Music, Scots College, Chilton Saint James School, Karori Normal School & NZ Jazz Foundation High School Workshops.

Beginners to seasoned professionals alike have benefitted from his thorough approach to developing good technique, no matter what style of music they prefer. His tuition skills were also applied in his tenure as a columnist for the NZ drum magazine ‘Drum Connections’ where he wrote the Understanding Jazz articles.

Drum Lessons include focus on the development of:

• Relaxed and fluid Technique
• Timing, groove and working with a metronome
• Reading Music and specific drum kit notation
• Beneficial practice habits and routines
• Rock/Pop/Jazz/Hip Hop/Drum n’ Bass/World Music
• Rudiment application
• Brush playing
• Odd Time Signatures
• Mallet Percussion (Vibraphone, Xylophone etc)
• World Percussion (Conga’s/Bongo’s/Timbale’s/Hand Percussion)
• Enjoyment of Drumming and Music

Workshops & Clinics can focus on above points and also:

• Band skills (communication/groove/song development)
• Getting into Jazz for Rock Musicians
• The music ‘Business’ and advancing your musical career
• Advanced Rhythmic studies
• Composition from a Rhythmic perspective

To make an enquiry please email: reuben@reubenbradley.com or phone: 021 211 4078