Quick Tips for Drummers #01 The Six Way Beat

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Buster Birch is an award-winning drummer from London who has worked with many of the UK’s finest jazz musicians. He has an honours degree in music from the University of London and a post-graduate diploma in jazz performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He also studied at the Drummers Collective in New York City and privately with Jim Chapin and Joe Morello (of The Dave Brubeck Quartet).

He has performed at virtually every major concert hall and jazz club in London as well as major international festivals, toured in over 30 countries and recorded over 30 CDs. He has played for The Royal Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and deputised on West End shows including the long-running "Blood Brothers". He created his own critically acclaimed show www.busterplaysbuster.com which features his jazz quartet playing live to the screening of different classic Buster Keaton feature-length movies, for which he arranged and scored over 4hrs of music synced to the films. Current bands he can be heard playing with include ARQ (The Alison Rayner Quintet), winners of the UK Parliamentary Jazz Award for "UK Best Jazz Ensemble".

He was a professorial member of the jazz faculty at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music for seven years where he taught improvisation, musicianship, jazz repertoire and jazz history classes. He has also lectured at The Royal Academy of Music, The Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Middlesex University. He is director of the UK’s largest and longest-running jazz summer school for adult learners www.theoriginalukjazzsummerschool.com, winner of the UK Parliamentary Award for Jazz Education. He is co-founder and director of BYMT Jazz School for Children, winner of the prestigious Will Michael Diploma Award for Jazz Education, a national award recognising “outstanding commitment to jazz education” and “acknowledging the work of those field practitioners who are actually delivering jazz education and in many cases helping to combat the widespread jazz phobia among classroom music teachers and instrumental tutors.” He has published 25 music tuition books worldwide on Apple, Amazon and Kindle.

www.busterbirch.co.uk