Lessons In Nashville
For those of you in the Nashville area, Timm offers coaching sessions and weekly lessons to drummers of all levels. Send Timm and e-mail by clicking
here to learn more.
DVD Lesson Program
Timm's DVD Lessons Program continues to receive great reviews from
those who have participated! Through this program, you can
study with Timm no matter where you live. Each lesson is 1 hour of personalized instruction, tailored to what you want to
accomplish and your drumming level. Want to tighten up your
blues shuffles? Work on your bass drum technique? Hand technique?
If you want to learn it, Timm can help you achieve it. For
info on how this program works, click here.
30 Minute DVD Lessons
We're now offering 30 minute DVD lessons! You'll be surprised at
how much ground you can cover in a 30 minute lesson - especially
when you can play it over and over again to catch every subtlety.
At $75.00, these lessons are a great deal and will provide
you with inspiration for years to come. Click
here to get in touch with Timm and get started today.
Timm on education
The older I get, the more passionate I become about passing on what I've learned about drumming after all these years. I began to play at the drums when I was 5 and started lessons at 7. I joined my first band at 12 and played teen clubs and private parties up to the age of 15, when I started working full time in clubs throughout the Washington, DC area. During my formative years, I was also marching in drum corps. This was in the days before DCI, but the level of drumming was still ridiculously high. Over time, I began to attempt to bring that level of excellence to my drum set playing as well. That included searching for ways to incorporate the rudimental style into the rock, jazz, and fusion music I was playing.
I've been teaching snare drum, drum set and drum corps since I was 16, and there are so many things I've realized about drumming over the last decade that I sometimes find myself hoping I didn't screw anybody up back in those days!
The point to all this? Education and the sharing of my drumming knowledge becomes more important to me every day. So many people kindly took time with me, answering my questions, passing on pointers, etc., that I feel it's almost my duty to "pass it forward". And that's what this section of the web site is about.
Please feel free to e-mail me with any questions you may have regarding my playing drumming in general. I really do answer every e-mail I receive, though it can take a few days for me to reply on occasion. You can send me an e-mail by clicking here. I look forward to hearing from you!
How Did Timm Do That?
We're starting a new feature here in the Education section called
How Did Timm Do That? The brain-child of Timm's manager Jeff
Kushner, these will be 5 to 10 minute free video
tutorials with
Timm explaining some of the songs, grooves, and fills, he's most
famous for. The tutorials will cover some of Timm's work with Nils
Lofgren, Danny Gatton, and Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush,
as well as tunes from other artists covering many styles.
And speaking of FM&MR, the first HDTDT tutorial covers Timm's signature groove from their hit "Strange Dreams". "The groove in 'Strange Dreams' is something drummers often mention to me and ask questions about" says Timm. "There's something about it that drummers are attracted to; although at the time we recorded it, I had no idea it would have an impact on other players. I was just trying to play what I thought worked for the tune. Hopefully, this video clip will explain it to some degree"
You can check out the "Strange Dreams" tutorial by clicking here.