About Me:
I teach using a number of exercises to develop hand and foot technique and coordination. Using a step by step method I start with very basic hand exercises and then add the feet so as to enable the student to play the drumset as a whole. Once some basic four-way coordination is established the student can then learn various rock influenced rhythms on the drumset and apply those to simple rock songs. As the student advances we can then move into playing other genres of music.

Styles:
Jazz, Rock, Blues, Pop, R&B, Hip Hop, Funk, Fusion, Latin

Subjects:
Jazz Music History, Rock Music History

Ages:
Elementary School, Pre-teen, Teenage, Adult

Availability:
Somerville, Cambridge, Brighton, Allston and Boston.

Major Influences:
FUNK and FUSION: James Brown, Herbie Hancock, and Frank Zappa. JAZZ: Miles Davis, Brad Mehldau, Keith Jarret and Chick Corea. POP: Sting, Steve Wonder, Coldplay, Radiohead and Bjork.

Experience:

• 7 years of teaching children and adults throughout New England.
• Band leader of my own jazz and latin group The Regan Gibson Trio.
• Drumset player for Doomou Africa playing reggae and the music of Senegal, Africa.
• Former member of Mango Groove, a five piece steel drum band that plays the music of Carribean throughout New England.
• Freelance artist with many pop rock, jazz, and funk bands in and around Boston.

Education:

• Professional Music Degree (BM), Currently enrolled at Berklee College of Music [2007]
• Bachelor of Science (BS), University of New Hampshire [2002]

Studied With:

• Bob Gullotti [2005 - 2006]
• Les Harris Jr. [1998 - 2002]

Seminars and Workshops Attended:

• Jazz workshop with renown drummer John Riley, Boston Jazz Workshop [2007]
• New Orleans funk drumming with Stanton Moore, Berklee School of Music [2007]