I teach individual drumset lessons both privately and at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD. I am also Director of the DRUMSET AND PERCUSSION CAMP, a part of the annual two-week Goucher Summer Arts Institute held on the Goucher College campus each July.

Private drumset lessons are held in my music studio in my home, located in Silver Spring, MD. Lessons are generally 30 minutes in length, but I will occasionally teach 45 or 60-minute lessons under certain situations. To view my policies, pricing, etc., please go to Teaching Policies.

Generally, I teach using a sequenced curriculum which may be tailored to an individual's strengths, weaknesses and preferences. I believe that students learn best when they are having fun and when they see the relevance of their practice, so I attempt to assign exercises which are fun and realistic to actual performance situations while I also directly demonstrate where such exercises and practice may lead them. Consequently, I emphasize play-along media and have created my own "Wes Crawford's Drumset Play-Along DVD," a DVD/CD package designed to shrink the performance gap a student often discovers between taking lessons and performing with actual musicians. I also use drummer/author Gary Rosensweig's books with students. Additionally, I have developed a "Rhythmic Murder Mystery" CD - a text-based murder mystery which may only be solved by listening closely to the solo electronic drumset tracks on the CD. I also offer a live version of this mystery and have performed it at various events such as the MD/DE and VA/DC Percussive Arts Society's Days of Percussion, the MD Music Teacher's Association, Spottsylvania County (VA) Music Teachers' Technology Conference, and others.

My teaching studio is state of the art and includes a drumset surrounded by mirrors and a stereo system hooked up to a television with DVD player, a practice pad wired to a Drumometer II , a multitude of hand percussion, a Roland electronic drumset attached to a 16-track hard disk recording system, a Roland Handsonic, and more! Parents and friends are welcome to wait in the adjacent waiting room equipped with a TV hooked up to a DVD/VHS player (always showing drum videos!) and sit on the comfy couch while reading magazines (only drum and music magazines are available)! Once a student enters the waiting room on the way to the studio, he/she will have no doubt that they have entered into a Total Drumming Environment!

If you have any questions, please initially contact me at wesdrummer@msn.com. References are available upon request.

Generally, I teach at Goucher College on Mondays and at my home studio Tuesdays-Saturdays.

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