The Drum Map

Drum lessons inGeorgia

We publish a page for a city once we have verified at least three drum teachers there from a source the business controls. Eight cities in Georgia clear that bar so far.

  • Atlanta14 verified · 13 teach beginners · 8 teach online
  • Savannah3 verified · 3 teach beginners · 2 teach online
  • Augusta3 verified · 3 teach beginners
  • Marietta8 verified · 6 teach beginners · 4 teach online
  • Alpharetta9 verified · 8 teach beginners · 6 teach online
  • Decatur4 verified · 4 teach beginners · 1 teach online
  • Roswell3 verified · 2 teach beginners · 2 teach online
  • Sandy Springs3 verified · 3 teach beginners · 1 teach online

No published price yet for any Georgia city. We hold 2 directly published hourly rates across the state, and publish a figure once we hold 8. Here is why, and how we count.

Coming soon

Athens

Athens is a college town that turned into a music town, and two of the bands that did it were built around drummers.

R.E.M. formed in Athens in 1980 with Bill Berry behind the kit, and he stayed for seventeen years and eleven albums before leaving in 1997 to farm in nearby Farmington (Britannica). He is playing again, in another Athens band, The Bad Ends. The B-52s came out of the same scene, and Keith Strickland, born in Athens, was originally their drummer; he moved to guitar only after Ricky Wilson died in 1985 (Wikipedia).

What matters for someone learning here is less the famous names than what they left behind: decades of a town where small bands form constantly, where playing in one is normal rather than ambitious, and where the bar for a first gig is a room with a PA.

If you are learning drums in Athens, you are learning in a place where there is somewhere to go and play badly in public. That is worth more to a beginner than it sounds.

Still verifying teachers here.

Macon, Columbus

Drum Coach

Practice between lessons

A teacher in Georgia gives you the plan for the week. Drum Coach is what you play along to on the other six days. It listens while you play, tracks your timing and accuracy, and tells you which bar you keep dropping.

$15 a monthAbout 9% of a weekly lesson at the low end of national rate guides. It will not fix your grip the way someone in the room can, so it is not a replacement for a teacher.

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The Drum Coach app showing a practice session