Jean-Clair de Ruwe Drum Lessons in Den Haag

Drumming Lessons - Jazz - Funk - Latin

Welcome to my profile! I am Jean-Clair de Ruwe, all-round drummer in The Hague. My lessons are in the first place for drummers who already have some experience and just want to learn the drum really well. If you wantto focus on Jazz, Bop, Bigband, Latin or Funky Jazz I'm pretty sure we have a match!

Drumstudio The Hague - Rijswijk

My drum studio is located on the border of Rijswijk and The Hague, near the HS and CS stations. Parking in front of the door. You will be seated behind a high quality, professional, acoustic drum kit and there will be time for a drink and listening to music.

Advanced Drummer

You want to work with an enthusiastic professional teacher? I want to teach an enthusiastic and motivated drummer! Should succeed!

Trial Drum Lesson

To see if we have a click a test drum lesson is the best option. Book it right away!

Personal and flexible

Your technique determines what we will work on and of course this is directly related to your choice of music. Of course everything is at your pace and tailored to what you need.

Drum notation? Yes you can!

I think it's important that you learn to read notes / drum notation, play as much as possible and regularly schedule your lessons. The 5 or 10 lesson packs work very well with this.

What to expect?

Focus on coordination, stick technique, posture, drum notation, how to build a solo, improvisation, comping, dynamics, brushes, swing, groove and rudiments.

Practice and Neighbours

Practising is important and fun if you want to make progress. It takes time and  if you have no rehearsal studio it can be challenging to find ways to practise without disturbing the neighbours. But there are several options for getting the volume down while keeping your chops up. I can help you solve this problem and also teach you to practise in a smart way and especially "the how and why". No practise is no progress

Listen to your favourite Drummers

I assume that you listen to a lot of music. Preferably to music with real instruments. There is much to hear and see on recordings of influential drummers. Find out what role the drummer has in the whole and why that is or isn't awesome. Think Butch Miles, Elvin Jones, Jo Jones, Bernard Purdie, Danny Richmond, Billy Cobham or Steve Gadd! And there are so many more and I'm curious to know who your heroes are!

Jean-Clair de Ruwe

Jean-Clair de Ruwe completed his studies at the Utrecht Conservatory with honors in 2004. In 2016 he received a scholarship from the Mignon Music Fund on which he spent 3 months in New York and was able to study with world-class drummers, Rodney Green and Kenny Washington. Jean-Clair has shared the stage with national and international top musicians including; Roy Hargrove, Charles McPherson, Howard Alden, Bert Joris, Ferdinand Povel, Ack van Rooyen, Denise Jannah, Bert van den Brink and the Millennium Jazz Orchestra. As a drum teacher he is associated with the TU Delft and the European School The Hague. He has also taught at various music schools and art institutions around the country.