Sean Herzig

“Don’t worry ‘bout those ghost notes! Ain’t nothin but rebound! Make it sound, and feel good!”

About Sean

Sean began his musical journey in grade school. Sean loved looking through Musician’s Friend catalogs and dreamed about piecing together his first drum set. He continually begged his parents for a new set of drums. Being from a musical family, Sean’s dad is a guitar player, his parents eventually caved and got him a drum set for his 9th birthday.

Soon after, Sean was enrolled in private lessons with Cincinnati drummer Shawn Elsbernd (Ringling Brother Circus) and later as a teenager with Jason Smart (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Rays Music Exchange). He graduated with a jazz studies degree from Northern Kentucky University and found himself immediately immersed and working in the Cincinnati jazz scene.

From 2008-2015, Sean led and toured regionally with the progressive rock band Don’t Fear the Satellites. Currently, he leads his own fusion/jazztronica supergroup, Live Sequence, which has featured musicians from New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Nashville, Cincinnati, and beyond.

Sean has had the opportunity to share the stage with many renowned musicians, including members from The Dave Matthews Band, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, The String Cheese Incident, Papadosio, Turkuaz, Cycles, Aqueous, Joe Marcinek, Brad Goode, and The Blue Wisp Big Band.

Sean’s Instructional Approach

Everybody learns differently! My goal is to help guide you on your path and find your voice through encouragement and efficiency. I tailor my lesson plans to the needs and interests of each student. Our sessions are supplemented with teachings from my own mentors as well as my own professional experience.

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Practice Tips

I have a 3 step method that I believe anybody can use to learn ANYTHING on ANY INSTRUMENT! (this of course works especially well for drums!)

1) TAKE IT SLOW – If you are struggling to play something, chances are you are just going too fast! You may have to try things slower than you want to at first, but you end up learning faster in the end!

2) If taking it slow is still proving to be difficult, be sure you are counting! Drumming is all about rhythm and counting can keep you on track while learning. After a few passes of taking it slow and counting, I promise you will start to feel it!

3) If taking it super slow and counting doesn’t do the trick, you have to find a way to simplify what you are trying to accomplish. You may have to break things down into smaller pieces and build them back up one piece at a time. It’s a process, but I promise if you follow my 3 step method, you can learn anything and you will be surprised at how quickly things can come together!

Favorite Tunes

Rock – Led Zeppelin, Rush, Steely Dan
Funk – Parliament Funkadelic, Clyde Stubblefield, Nate Smith

Jazz – Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Billy Cobham

Hiphop – J Dilla, Questlove, MF Doom

Classical – Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy