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Rupps Drums School and Lessons Rupp's Drum School is dedicated to
providing superior drum instruction in a fun and professional environment while maintaining a one on one relationship between teacher and student!
Rupp's Drum School Information
- Lessons will be custom tailored to the specific student.
- All lessons are private and held in a one-on-one teaching environment.
- Lessons available for the beginner to the advanced student.
- Rupp's uses state of the art Roland electronic drums allowing students to hear the drums as they should be heard while playing. We do not teach on "drum pads."
- Snare drum methods and rudiments will be taught to provide a basis for drum set performance.
- Hand drum lessons are available for students who wish to learn to play congas, bongos, djembe, or similar instruments.
- Keyboard, mallets and bell set instruction.
- Flexible scheduling Monday through Saturday.
- Free lesson available to first time students!
Rupp's Drum School Goals
Rupp's Drum School Teachers
Throughout Elementary, Middle, and High School he studied drums, piano, and saxophone. He performed in Marching Band, Jazz Band as well as "garage" bands. After High school, he attended Northern New Mexico Community College and The University of New Mexico and studied Art.
In 1999 and began performing and recording drums professionally with various bands including 2AM, Rachael's Playpen, and Shook and his own bands Mean Old Man and Medina.
In 2001, he became the drummer for regional and national touring act Wendy Woo and the Woo Crew and then The Wendy Woo Trio. He contributed production, writing, and drum tracks on the Album "Walking the
Skyline" and "Luxury."
His career teaching began at the Metro Drum School in 2001 with beginning to advanced teaching in written music, songwriting, physical and conceptual methods including the "Moeller Method" stick grip technique.
- David Petry:
received a Bachelors of Science (B.S.) degree in music education in 1999 from
Ball State University. He moved to Denver in 1999 and received a Masters of Music (M.M.)
from the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver in 2001. David has been teaching since 1994 and has been playing percussion instruments professionally since the age of 16.
- David has performed throughout the United States and Europe. In 1997, David performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland. Recently, David has been teaching,
recording percussion and drum set for sound tracks and audio recordings, and performing in Colorado and New York City.
- David has performed with Chris Wood (MMW), Jon Faddis, Randy Brecker, Eric McFadden, Cecil "P-Nut" Daniels, Israel Vibrations, Jerry Bergonzi, Dave Johnston (Yonder Mountain String Band), Fareed Hague, Eric Gunnison, Pat
Bianchi, Jarad Astin, Ben Senterfit, and many others.
- Devon Rogers:
started playing drums in elementary school and performed with bands in junior high school. Upon moving to Colorado, he continued his musical education at MDS (The Metro Drum School) with Gary LeFrancois. He is competent in the Bass and Electric Guitar giving him a greater understanding of song construction and instrumentation. He also attended the University of Colorado at Denver for Audio Engineering learning the techniques of Studio Recording and Live Sound Engineering.
- He started teaching at The Metro Drum School and is currently teaching at Rupp's Drum School.
- Devon has also performed through out the US and Europe with several bands including Quadramess (Westword's Best of 06 Supergroup), and Kingdom of Magic (Westword's Best of 07, Best live band). He also continues to do live
sound engineering in several Denver live music venues.
Other Information
- Lesson length is either 30 or 60 minutes 4 times a month.
- The price for lessons is $99.99 per month for 30 minute lessons and $175.00 for hour long sessions.
- Recommended Student Supplies: Metronome, Lesson Book, and Drumsticks. All supplies are available at Rupp's Drums.
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