As background, my eight year old son Ethan had been taking private drum lessons for two years prior to Gary. I had grown increasingly frustrated because I didn’t think his teacher was particularly good at relating to a kid Ethan’s age and keeping it fun for him. We switched to Gary only a couple of weeks ago, but he’s been a real breath of fresh air. He has already established a great rapport with Ethan and Ethan looks forward to drum lessons now in a way he had not before (and puts up less resistance to practicing). As far as I’m concerned, that’s the most important quality you have in a music teacher for an eight year old. Gary has also been on punctual for the couple of lessons we’ve had so far.

Daniel