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Professional Drum Lessons in Leicester, in amazing new studios!

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Welcome to the new-look Dye House Drum Works – for drum lessons in Leicester – thank you for visiting!

My name is Lee Boyd Allatson and I have been a providing professional drum lessons in Leicester for 30 years. I opened Dye House Drum Works back in October 2009 and since then have been providing drum lessons and drum equipment to many local players. We provide drum lessons for children and drum tuition for beginners through to advanced drumming and preparation for further and higher education. Whatever your drumming needs – we are here to help!

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Lee Allatson – Dye House Drum Works

There are many great services provided by Dye House Drum Works drum school: We offer bespoke, one-to-one drum lessons, tailored to the needs and goals of each individual student; furthermore, we regularly supply a range of unique and inspiring clinics and masterclasses for group events. We also have our own drum shop and a YouTube channel hosting a whole bunch of great tuition videos. Have a browse around the website and leave a comment, or drop us a line with any questions or queries. There’s always something new going on, so do please feel free to visit often!

Drum Lessons in Leicester with Dye House Drum Works are still only £19 per hour!  [More Info]

Tuition Room 1 at Dye House Drum Works

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Drum Lessons in Leicester at Dye House Drum Works
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Dye House Drum Works Students
Dye House Drum Works Students: All ages, and working in all kinds of exciting musical directions!

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Tuition Room 2 at Dye House Drum Works
 
 

Teaching Studio Refurbishment

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Dye House Drum Works: New Drum Kits, Cymbals and Technical Stations Installed in our Leicester Teaching Studios!

Mapex Mars kits have been all the talk here at Dye House Drum Works, with 2 brand new kits for our tuition rooms: a fusion set in ‘Bonewood’ white with black hardware and an LA/hybrid fusion configuration in ‘Bloodwood’ red with chrome fittings and stands. The finishes are stunning and the colours set off beautifully by each kit’s distinctive hardware pack. We have topped both sets with Aquarian Texture Coated heads and new cymbals too: Sabian XS20 sets in brilliant finish – an excellent all-round/mid price cymbal range. The kits sound amazing: our custom built rooms here do help as they are designed to support the natural acoustic properties of the drum kit, but this combination of great drums, cymbals and drumheads makes for an excellent, balanced and inspiring sound. I should mention the Mars bass drum pedal and hi-hat stands specifically here too, as everyone here has found them super-playable and I couldn’t agree more.

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New Mapex Mars set up: Studio 1, Dye House Drum Works.

 

Aquarian practice pad, wall-mounted mirror and drum rudiment chart set up in Studio 1.

Technical station.

Each of our tuition studios is kitted out with an independent technical station, featuring Aquarian Tru-Bounce practice pads, a wall mounted mirror and Vic Firth rudiment charts. The mirrors are also aligned to be used while sat at the main drum kit.

Audio monitoring for CD and MP3 playback is fitted in all our rooms, via a mix of Ramsa, Yamaha, Sony, Peavey and Jamo sound systems, plus Tama Rhythm Watch metronomes for more focussed technical and timing work.

Mapex Mars drum set in Studio 2 of Dye House Drum Works.

Mapex Mars kit is Studio 2, Dye House Drum Works.

Mapex Mars drum set with Sabian XS20 cymbals, plus Aquarian technical station in studio 2 at Dye House Drum Works

Mapex Mars: ‘Bloodwood’ finish, Studio 2.

 

Leicester College Workshop

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Dye House Drum Works – Music Workshops and Lectures.

Dye House Drum Works has been working closely with Leicester College, helping students gain entry to higher level education and pro/semi-pro careers in music. As part of this relationship, I was recently invited to host two lectures as a guest speaker at the college’s Abbey Park campus for students enrolled on the Performing Musician and Music Technology courses.

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Lee Allatson’s Musicianship and Musicality workshop at Leicester College, 2015

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‘One Voice For Care’ event

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Dye House Drum Works’ Lee Allatson supplies the percussive force behind the One Voice For Care charity choir event at De Montfort Hall, Leicester.

I was delighted this year to be asked to play for the One Voice For Care charity event at De Montfort Hall in Leicester by the Leicester City Male Voice Choir’s musical director, Edgars Cuzinskis. The night was held to raise money for the LOROS, Hope Against Cancer and Rainbows Hospice charities and featured The Fron Male Voice Choir, The Military Wives Choir and the Leicester City Male Voice Choir – augmented with members of several other county-wide men’s choirs.

Along with the opportunity to play an interesting mix of hit show tunes, pop ballad arrangements and more traditional hymnal choral items, the event provided an excellent vehicle by which to say Thank You, once again, to the LOROS Hospice, who provided such incredible care for my mum earlier this year.          [*Update: this event raised £9,600!]

De Montfort Hall concert stage with pipe organ, piano and drum set.

Setting up for the ‘One Voice For Care’ event at De Montfort Hall, Leicester. October 2015.

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DHDW YouTube Channel

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As well as drum lessons at our drum school in Leicester, Dye House Drum Works also runs tuition videos on our very own You Tube channel!

Link: Dye House Drum Works YouTube channel.

Find a selection of tuition videos based around the Rockschool syllabus; there’s also lots of content relevent to non-exam study players too, so please do have a browse! There is a playlist of short videos documenting Lee Allatson’s recent appearance at Leicester’s Drum Jam event, aimed at helping you get the most from your practice time:

YouTube.com is a fantastic medium to communicate these ideas for learning, and equally fascinating for me to learn just how far around the world our viewers come from. Just this month we’ve enjoyed visits from the UK, USA, New Zealand, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Spain, Russia, Jordan and Brunei!

 

Visit our YouTube channel for drum lessons by our resident drum teachers:

Learn rock and pop drumming; learn to play jazz drums; learn to play funk and latin drums; learn to play rudiments… It’s all here – and more – at Leicester’s Dye House Drum Works drum school!

Leicester Drum Hang 2015

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Lee Allatson Hosts a Music Workshop for Leicester Drummers at Quad Studios.

Drum Hang 2015 at Quad Studios, Leicester.

What a great day this was for drumming – and moreover a vibrant display of what Leicester has to offer in terms of drum kit players, teachers and a complete local support network for everything drum and drummer related!

Presented by local player/teacher and long time friend Tim Brown, the event was an open invitation to drummers to bring their kits along and jam together, chat drums and also partake in a program of masterclass-style workshops given through the day by Mark Haynes, Damon Clarridge, Tim and myself. Continue reading →

Rockschool

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Dye House Drum Works: a Rockschool exam centre in Leicester.

I’ve been teaching the Rockschool syllabuses pretty much since they started out, on a machine cassette-based audio format (true!). Since then, they have displayed a keen ambition in developing constantly relevant content and garner ever wider international recognition for their qualifications. Many of my students have benefited greatly from the structured learning these grade packs bring and indeed, have secured places on some of the country’s best contemporary music further and higher education courses with the aid of performance skills or UCAS points gained from pursuing them.

Dye House Drum Works is a registered Rockschool Public Examinations Centre and runs open exam days throughout the year. See the Rockschool website for details.

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