Experienced tutor in Drum in Bethesda, Bam offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

Perfect! Bam (Neal) made me feel very comfortable on my first day behind the drum kit. He appears very much driven by enthusiasm for music and loves bringing new musicians into the family. As a complete newbie, I learned a lot from Bam. Lessons have structure and get results. Recommend!

Perfect! What an awesome individual. Except for issues beyond our control, (i.e.) zoom connectivity, I couldn’t have found a better instructor if I would have created the credentials myself. Kind, patient, knowledgeable, supportive, honest, fun, prompt, answers all questions, and he is pro-active rather than reactive as he sends information to assist in my progress. Any company that has this instructor on their roster of instructors has a golden ticket…. Drum-on!

Perfect! Friendly, knowledgeable, great coaching!

Perfect! My experience with Bam has been awesome. He literally takes up so much time outside of the class to prepare for teaching you specifically with exercises, resources, etc. Then the whole class feels like nothing's wasted in terms of time, he knows how to adjust the material in the lesson to being just outside of your comfort zone so you can grow without it being stressful, the class is actually a lot of fun and Bam is a pleasure to interact with on a personal level! He is certainly a hidden gem in the world of music lessons in my opinion!

Perfect! Had my first lesson with Bam today. Bam is amazing teacher and person. He is very knowledgeable about music and has great energy. His lesson was completely customized to me, my music tastes, and my level, based on a series of questions he posed to me before we got started. He had printed exercises and transcriptions of a play along song ready for me and had also loaded up the song on his iPod to allow me to play to. He noted numerous points about my stroke dynamics and timing and gave me amazing guidance on how to improve. Bam kept me a hair outside my zone of comfort and was encouraging through out. I came away feeling really motivated and have already practiced more that I have ever done in a day. I’ll be back to continue my drumming journey with Bam on a regular basis.