Drum Lessons With a Teacher Who Knows How Kids Actually Learn

Larry Connelly has been behind a drum kit since the early nineties, playing alongside Ryan Olock in the Philadelphia music scene and across three decades of bands and projects together. He is a musician first — with the feel, the ear, and the stage experience that only come from years of performing live.

Larry has a great sense of humor and makes every lesson fun!

But what makes Larry genuinely rare as a drum teacher is something most drum instructors never bring to the room: twenty years of early childhood education training and experience from working in Philadelphia school districts. He understands how young children develop. He knows how to hold a five-year-old’s attention without losing it. He knows the difference between a child who needs patience and a child who needs a challenge. He meets every student exactly where they are — because he has spent his career learning how.

For older students and adults, Larry brings the working drummer’s perspective — how to play with feel, how to lock in with a band, how to serve the song. He also brings master level study enriched by his playing with world music masters and intense studying of world rhythms.  For the youngest beginners, he brings the educator’s patience and structure that turns a first lesson into a genuine accomplishment.