

One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Giovanni will be happy to arrange your first Drums lesson.
Giovanni
One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Giovanni will be happy to arrange your first Drums lesson.
- Rate R867
- Response 9h
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Students50+
Number of students Giovanni has accompanied since joining Superprof
Number of students Giovanni has accompanied since joining Superprof

R867/h
1st lesson free
- Drums
- Percussion
- Jazz Drumming
Professional drummer with BMus(Hons) and Master's Degree (MMus) in music performance teaching drums- Including grades- Beginner to Advanced.
- Drums
- Percussion
- Jazz Drumming
Lesson location
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One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Giovanni will be happy to arrange your first Drums lesson.
About Giovanni
Hi my name is Giovanni Velez and I'm offering private drum lessons for all ages and levels. I am a qualified and professional teacher with over 16 years of experience in studying and playing drums including a Bachelor of Music from BIMM London (First Class Honours Degree) and a Master in Music Performance from UWL. Over the past 15 years, I have participated in studio and live recordings, pedagogy lessons, live performances, showcases, master classes, and festivals and have gained valuable work experience to share my knowledge with students of any level. My studio is based in Acton Town (W3 8DJ), but I am happy to travel and teach you in the comfort of your place if you can cover travel expenses. The first induction lesson is completely FREE. I charge 25 pounds for 1 hour or 45 pounds for 2 hours. I also offer some discounts for block lessons. A FREE pair of sticks: Vic Firth Nova 5A (LAST 5 PAIRS AVAILABLE!) will be included with your first lesson. Get in touch for more information or any questions.
About the lesson
- All levels
- English
- Italian
Languages in which the lesson is available :
English
Italian
The way I approach my lessons is entirely based on your goals and personal needs, whether you want to play drums just for fun as a hobby or you want to commit 100% in order to achieve master skills, I will help by sharing my experience and knowledge with you. Some of the topics you will focus on during the lessons include: hand techniques, foot techniques, learning songs, independence and reading.
Reviews
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Perfect! Giovanni is an amazing, well structured, patient drums professor with a wide variety of music knowledge. Highly recommended!
Perfect! Great first lesson, good communicator, clear instructions and fun!
Perfect! Giovanni is a very patient and easy going and enthusiastic teacher. Highly recommended
Perfect! Giovanni is very knowledgeable and I feel like I improved a lot in just a few minutes.
Perfect! Gio is really a brilliant teacher! He is very patient and passionate. He helped to improve my technique and gave me a lot of new inputs for my practice after the first lesson. I can't wait for the next session
Perfect! Fantastic Teacher. Went there to do my free induction lesson and fell in love with the drums. The studio is very professional and Giovanni is a very patient and competent teacher. I’m looking forward for my next lesson!
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Recommendations
Recommendations are written by the tutor's friends, family, and acquaintances.
I’ve been playing drums for a couple of years before I met Giovanni. Unfortunately, l did not remember much theory and had a rather poor English vocabulary in music terminology, but it wasn’t a problem at all - he was explaining everything along the way, sometimes with literally his hands.
Giovanni is immensely passionate about what he is doing. I had a pleasure to watch him play a gig once and there is nothing more inspiring than seeing not just a spark, but a whole bonfire in his eyes while doing what he loves the most. Because of him, I started considering being a professional musician, rather than playing just for fun.
And just as a cherry on top, Gio is genuinely a lovely human being. He supports and encourages like no other, especially when I’m feeling like a complete failure. Every lesson fills me with joy and motivation, and no words would express how much it means to me at this point of life.
If you ever plan to learn drums, I sincerely recommend Giovanni. He’ll focus on your goals, regardless how serious you take it, will keep you entertained or challenged - and all this in 3(?) languages. Make sure you’ll learn from him before he’s too busy touring around the worldGiovanni is an excellent musician and marvellous tutor. He has gave me useful and practical advice on my sense, skill and technique and taught me how to respond to the music, which all these are crucial for me to learn and practice to be a good drummer. He has been so sensitive and attentive to every note I played. I have gained great improvement and considerable progress under his guidance. I really enjoyed every lesson!
Giovanni is a great teacher, he really takes time to explain everything and makes the lessons entertaining and fun. I started from 0 with no musical background and had a big progress over the last 1,5 year working with Giovanni. Highly recommend to anyone who is deciding to start playing drums!
From the moment I met Giovanni, he made me feel very welcome, at ease and was so friendly, engaging and enthusiastic! I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to learn from Giovanni for a good while now and although I am not the best student (my other commitments do take up a lot of capacity), he has continued to encourage, motivate and positively challenge me to evolve - I am so truly grateful. Additionally, he is very patient, breaks down methods into smaller, manageable steps and has a delightful sense of humour, which makes learning so much fun too! I would not hesitate for a second to recommend him as a tutor, he is phenomenal and a true artist of his field! Thank you so much!
Giovanni is really good at breaking down into steps and providing appropriate drills at different stages for me to work on! I have been working with him for nearly 2 years, and am happy with the progress. Thank, Giovanni!
Reliable and passion driven tutor.
Capable to translate real music experience in to well structured music programs.
Highly recommend!!
O. FischerSee more recommendations
Rates
Rate
- R867
Package rates
- 5h: R3902
- 10h: R7588
online
- R759/h
free lesson
The free first lesson with Giovanni allows you to get to know the tutor and discuss your needs and expectations.
- 30min
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