About Nate Brown

Nate Brown earned his Bachelor of Arts in Education from John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH and Master of Arts in Education at the University of Findlay in Findlay, OH. Nate authored the Alfred Publishing’s book Alfred’s Beginning Workbook for Snare Drum, the feature article for Drum! Magazine, Dr. Fill: A Step-By-Step Approach to Unleashing Your Creative Fill Potential, and a number of eBook releases by OnlineDrummer.com: Take Control of Your Accents, The Rock Shuffle, 108 Ways to Leave Your Paradiddle, Ostinato Threes, and I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost.

Along with writing, Nate is a well-established video clinician, previously running three monthly video lesson series including Drum! Magazine’s Groove Analysis Lesson Series, OnlineDrummer.com’s Monday Lesson Series, and Jammit.com’s Tuesday Lesson Series. He also appeared in the DVD Drumming for Fanatics by Drum! Magazine and Alfred Publishing and performed at the San Jose Drum! Night. Nate’s video lessons have received over 18,000,000 views to date on YouTube.

Using his successful teaching philosophy, Nate puts a strong emphasis on foundational coordination building as well as making sure students understand when, where, why, and how these foundational techniques have been used throughout the years. Students are motivated by learning songs that incorporate the foundational material being learned.

Nate is also publisher of the popular educational website, OnlineDrummer.com. This site has earned multiple honors under his leadership including being recommended in the book Drums For Dummies (2nd edition), Best Website Runner-up Drum! Magazine Poll, and being touted in the London Metro as, “The ideal place to find out about drumming.” Nate’s vision for OnlineDrummer.com is to bring drumming education by talented teachers to everyone with the desire to learn.

Nate started playing music at age 3 but is a strong believer that it’s never too late to start. He has seen success stories over and over again of people starting an instrument later in life. If you’re hesitant to start because you think it’s too late, Nate will be the first one to tell you to pick up the drum sticks and play. It can change your life.