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Adam’s simple and ideal approach to learning drums – this approach looks at the big picture of drumming goals and shows an efficient path to help you achieve them all, and master drumming skills to help you achieve your dreams.
-Focuses on working toward having more fun
-Involves all topics of skill
-Begins with drumming fundamentals and the art of practicing
-First major goal: playing with songs, which ties together most basic drumming skills
-Second major goal: increase sound quality and expressivity on the drumset, as well as your drumming vocabulary.
-Overall strategy is to continue growing your drumming skills forever! (It’s more fun that way).
“The mission of Play Drums Now is to provide drummers with valuable materials for every step of their path. I want to accelerate the training process for all drummers, to get everyone having fun fast. I don’t want aspiring drummers to get frustrated along the way. The materials are unique and have lots of innovations I came up with to speed up the process of training. These innovations have all been field tested and proven successful, over time with many many students.
I began this journey of teaching and creating resources in hopes that it will help the drumming community connect and advance further and faster than ever before!”
– Adam Randall, drummer / instructor
Our lesson program is built from the ground up, with a three level curriculum that moves at the student's pace.
Don't have drums or a place to practice? Not a problem! Here at Klash we rent out our studios and kits. Students, if you don't have drums, we will rent you a kit for $25 per month to practice on at home. If you live in a apartment and can't be loud, you can practice in our studios. Studio rental is $5 for 30 minutes. Please call ahead to check availability.
If you have a drum set at home and a WiFi connection, you're all set for online lessons. If do not currently own drums, we have a lesson program that includes a full kit rental in the monthly price. See more rental details here.
Adam Randall
(Lead Instructor)
A professional drummer, educator, and author, Adam has performed and recorded (drumset and hand drums) with bands across various styles, situations and all sizes of stages in Minnesota and Colorado.
His career in drum instruction started with a ten year position at the Colorado Music Institute. He has been teaching at Klash Drums in MN since 2013, and is now managing the Klash lesson program. He published his first drum instruction books in 2010, and he continues to create new materials in the “Play Drums Now” line of books. He remains passionate about his mission to help as many people as possible become great drummers.
Erin Bekkers
Erin has been playing music for 18 years and drumming for over 15 years. He moved to the Twin Cities area of Minnesota and studied
music at Anoka-Ramsey College with an emphasis on drum performance through jazz, latin, and classical styles. He has since been
living and performing professionally in the area for 9 years.
In addition to performing, Erin has been teaching guitar, bass, ukulele, and drums
for 4 years and loves sharing the joy of music with others. He is currently a drum instructor at Klash Drums in north-east Minneapolis.
Erin enjoys, performs, as well as doing recording session work from music across all styles. He has played in various cover bands including ‘Midwest Mayhem’ and most recently ‘Shirts & Skins’ among others. He
has also worked with funk group ‘Cat Tales’, rockabilly artist ‘Crankshaft’, americana singer/songwriter ‘Luke Leblanc’, cabaret act ‘Meghan Murphy’s Big Red Show’, and progressive metal band ‘Intrinsic’. Erin also plays for various churches, jazz combos, and musicaltheater productions.
Erin is also a massive Star Wars fan and enjoys hiking, kayaking, and
perfecting new skills on the drums in his free time.
Nate Babbs
A Summa Cum Laude graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Nate has been playing professionally since 2008. A veteran of dozens of national tours (including a 6-week stint in support of Counting Crows), Nate has criss-crossed the country with numerous projects including YouTube sensation Reina Del Cid, Wisconsin-based electro-folk group Foreign Fields, Minneapolis-based songsmith Dan Rodriguez, wunderkind John Mark Nelson and many more. He can be seen around the Twin Cities in venues and recording studios alike as an in-demand freelance/session player with millions upon millions of streams/views to his name, and has even leant his playing to a few video game scores.
When he’s not playing drums, he’s the Artist Rep for Low Boy Custom Beaters, a kick drum beater company based in Santa Barbara, CA, as well as a freelance sound engineer. He’s a self-proclaimed SUPER NERD with a deep love for D&D, Ren Fest, and all things Fantasy.
Jacob Scully
Jacob has been diligently studying and practicing the drumset for over a decade. Playing his first show in his late teens, he quickly became a consistent member of the twin cities music scene. He primarily performs with the local rock band 'Vin', creating his own unique parts - and he also has experience doing session recording as well as being hired on to fill in for other projects. His underlying approach to both teaching and his own practice is to use technique as a means to find and express the unique artist in each of us.
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